Right? It describes some fingerprinting techniques the site uses, but browser sandboxing limits the available data.

This type of scan is uncommon, and slightly more invasive than other tracking techniques, but neither new nor urgent.

It doesn’t paint the site operator as a paragon of privacy for sure tho.

Yes, I do, but you don’t need a man in the middle when you also hold the decryption keys (on both ends). E2EE is useful in case you get hacked, since unless they get the whole system, a copy of the data at rest would be encrypted.

From what I can tell, the ‘age’ part is misdirection. They want to restrict computer use to the “good” people, to make it “safer”.

Using age restrictions first allows legislation to be passed “for the children” using the idea of potential harm to theoretical children. However, in practice, legislators expect the implementation of the age check to be capable of checking anything else they want to about your identity, as a prerequisite for access. Probably using a combination of face scans and ID scans.

Mitochondria is the powerhouse of a cell

In most situations, your BitLocker recovery key is automatically backed up when BitLocker is first activated:

• https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/back-up-your-bitlocker-recovery-key-e63607b4-77fb-4ad3-8022-d6dc428fbd0d

Unless your base argument is “Microsoft users are all stupid”, then I remind you that this is not only default behavior, but is mandatory if your account is associated with an EmtraID account (i.e. any business or school)

If only it were a paycheck amplifier

I love how expressive this is, and how it juxtaposes the authors main thesis against an elegant visual counterpoint.

Right‽ this has ‘maybe the genie won’t screw me over with my third wish if I just ask it right’ energy.

Your feelings and opinions are affecting our bottom line. Obviously it’s you that’s the problem here.

I’m sorry, what’s market research again? That sounds old-school and not involving AI.

No, I don’t think that’s what’s happening here. I think people are theorizing that X is very likely to respond to pressure from Google and Apple threatening to deplatform them, and loudly complaining about them not applying their own rules equally is a great way to remind their internal lawyers to put pressure on them (insulting the CEOs is just a nice bonus).

Frankly, if the fallot here is a relaxed adult policy, that’s still a win. LGBTQIA advocacy groups tend to get lumped in as ‘adult’, which is a problem for trans-affirming suicide prevention hotlines trying to save lives.

As for your slippery slope question, that Pandora’s box is already open. Just half a year ago Mastercard and VISA put the strongarm on Valve and itch.io to let the payment processors ban any game they choose under the guise of pornography censorship. Pressuring a platform to censure an app ‘for the sake of the children’ just isn’t the virgin ground you seem to think it is.