In the few short hours since I started using #Threads, #DuckDuckGo has already blocked over 200 data tracking attempts. These include things like “headphone status” and “screen density.”

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldEnglish
    24·
    3 年前

    It was owned by a big tech corporation, Ma Bell. And then it got broken up and there were just a bunch of smaller monopolies printing phone books.

    • mrmanager@lemmy.todayEnglish
      121·
      3 年前

      I didnt know that… thank you, stranger.

      Big tech monopolies involved in everything, im just tired of it.

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldEnglish
        17·
        3 年前

        One of the advantages(?) of being old is you remember all the previous times corporations have fucked us over in various ways. The phone company monopoly which turned into mini-monopolies was just one more example unfortunately. At least that one’s over now.

        • Marxine@lemmy.worldEnglish
          8·
          3 年前

          In the current age we don’t even have to be that old to have been screwed by big corporations more than once. I guess anyone in their 20s would have by now gone through it at least thrice.

    • kobra@lemm.eeEnglish
      4·
      3 年前

      So what you’re saying is decentralization killed the phone book so Meta is actually saving us!? /s