The whole point of this particular comment thread here is that we’re already starting to see what’s happening: people are taking back control. You’re here on Lemmy, proving that exact point.

I never said we needed Cory to tell us what comes next. Just come up with another colourfully descriptive term like he did with enshittification.

You sound like that insufferable ponytail from Good Will Hunting.

Cheers. Fixed.

We need Cory to coin a term for what comes after enshittification. Perhaps we can call it the Great Wipening, where we all stop paying to be treated like serfs and start taking back control of our content and data.

Please use a personal email. My email is ‘mail’ @ ‘my actual name’. It does not get more personal than that

It’s a legit rule they’re enforcing, IMO. Generic email addresses are usually unmonitored mailboxes that don’t bounce. Easy to use if you’re spamming contact forms and stuff like that.

Instead they advised me (3 times) to create a personal email on a service like Yahoo, Outlook, Gmail, Orange, etc

I think this is more a boilerplate suggestion, to lower the barrier to entry for people. Gotta remember, those of us that host our own email and/or use our own personal domains are definitely in the minority.

Not really. Here in Australia, our supermarket duopoloy does the same thing, offering discounts per litre. At the time it all started, the supermarket chains started buying into/acquiring petrol stations and rebranding them. This has been going on for over 20 years.

Recently, both supermarkets sold off their petrol station chains, but the sales included long-standing agreements to continue to offer discounts and loyalty program points for those that shop at the associated supermarket brand.

Yep, agreed, but at least the government of the day can try and reign them in with legislation and regulation. Not saying they are (or will), but they’d have the option, if they had the balls to do it.

It’s not just about data hoarding, though. It’s also about a social media company having considerable influence over the messaging seen by a very large part of the voting population.

Yes, it’s no different to other social media companies, but with one exception: the company in question is subject to the whims of the Chinese government. Something the US government is clearly fearful of.

Aaargh! Audible did this to the Stephen King Dark Tower series. Don’t get me wrong - Frank Muller did OK in the books he read, but George Guidall (books 1, 5, 6 & 7) has an almost Johnny Cash quality to his voice, that just made his reading really fantastic to listen to.

Anything Fry does is just pure gold. I loved his 7 Deadly Sins podcast series .

Yep. I get all that, but that’s not an option with my employer.

I’m comfortable with the separation I have, and iOS is key to part of that satisfaction.

Yep - not sure what point you’re making, though?

A commercial use is one primarily intended for commercial advantage or monetary compensation

My phone isn’t used “primarily for commercial advantage or monetary compensation”. It’s my own phone that my company reimburses me some of the monthly cost of running, for being able to use it to contact me.

I have an always-on Wireguard VPN, and use my Piholes at home. So far, so good!

I need to use my phone for work, which means I can’t use custom ROMs due to our BYOD policies.

For me, iOS is still by far the better option, especially as I use privacy-respecting apps and services (Firefox, self-hosted Immich, etc).

After 10 years on Android, I just switched back. Because I admire Apple’s commitment to privacy, and simply don’t trust Google any more.

if you disable “Allow Apps to Request to Track”, it prevents non-Apple apps from tracking entirely cross-site/apps.

Thanks for that - great tip for new players.

Interesting (kinda) coincidence. I’ve just switched from Android back to iPhone, after about 10 years away from the platform.

But I use an always-on Wireguard VPN back to my home network, with my DNS set to my Pi-hole servers and my firewall rules blocking access to all external DNS servers, except from my Pi-holes for upstream resolution.

I’m yet to do some p-caps to see what I’m missing in this setup - while I’m confident it did a great job of protecting me from a lot of Google’s data-harvesting shenanigans, I’m yet to investigate what I need to do to achieve a similar outcome for my iPhone.

I believe they used the middle finger on their right hand, and depressed it on the second (right) button of their mouse.

They could possibly be using their mouse in left-handed mode, which might’ve meant using the index finger on their left hand to achieve the same action.

Then again, it’s possible that they’re using their mouse in mirrored, left-handed mode, and they could’ve used the middle finger on their left hand to depress the primary (left) button of their mouse.

Of course, this only covers hand use of a traditional mouse. I can’t speak as to whether OP is using an upright, ergonomic mouse of some sort, of even a stylus and tablet. There’s just so many possibilities!

I think I remember some kids’ rhyme about an old lady who swallowed a fly…?

Edit: this one

Hmmm - maybe I should be using “fewer” less times than I should be using “less” fewer times…

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I was saying elsewhere I deleted all my content before deleting my account, but now some of my content is back.