So the way to truly delete ones content is to mass edit and replace with “fuck spez”?

This guy risk-rewards.

Yes.

That won’t change anything. The financial incentives from investors driving this will demand similar policies even if they get redressed in different marketing.

Dopamine receptors outnumbering all others on their neurons.

Same, except I probably use a bit more than just YouTube and Android.

Staring down enshittified platforms instead of learning actual social interaction. 👌

E: This may come off as it’s their fault. That’s not the case of course. That’s why adults are having this conversation. The adults before them built the system that gave us these companies which create those enshittified platforms in the neverending search of profit.

It’s an analogy. It’s inaccurate as all analogies are. Yet it’s useful to make the point that banning children from doing X or Y isn’t unprecedented or unacceptable.

Kids go to school for much more than what they learn in class. A fully formed human being that can function in a society requires a lot of social interaction training. That’s what school is for in-between classes. If kids are staring down their phones during that time instead of interacting with each other, that training is lost. Worse, instead of that, they get trained on a false social reality as portrayed by whatever enshittified platform they’re currently on, based on whatever behavior makes the most money today. Is this enough to visualize the damage phones in hallways cause?

It is new. It’s also old, like the way the internet used to be. The way /c/Canada doesn’t turn into /r/Canada is by staying and engaging. 🤗💛

It is pretty exciting though.

If one is using Google services which is most likely the case if they’re using one of the popular Android phones that has Call Screen, then Google already has the ability to do that via multiple other avenues like Contacts, Gmail, Calendar, Photos, Docs, call logs and others. Not to mention they have root on every Android phone with Google Apps on it, but let’s assume they’re only collecting what you agreed to. In other words if one is in bed with Google services, adding Call Screen to the mix isn’t increasing the amount of exposure by a significant amount. If we’re in bed with Google anyways and they’re doing everything you mentioned, we may as well get more services rendered for that.

Personally I’m very much in bed with Google ever since the Gmail beta in 2004-5. I’m not ecstatic about it. That’s a risk I’m monitoring and have some mitigations in place for. I’m also not letting anyone else in my bed because every additional bedfellow is additional risk. E.g. Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Meta or some small questionable entities like Brave.

And this is how the climate change costs keep mounting.

Given our oligopolistic telco landscape, this is not surprising. Everything takes a while if it happens at all. 🤭