Where they get absolutely roasted for their stance on AI 😄

I found this link prompted by your comment. As I said in my previous reply, you’re right that the amount could be zero, but we have no evidence that Apple has conceded to the requests to prevent this kind of thing from happening.

And even if they did, the rest of the world is still a problem.

As far as I can tell, the donations are completely private. That means that as far as we’re concerned the amount could be zero.

This looks like a good article to separate the known deep economic ties Apple has to Israel from the unknown as well as the viral mis/disinformation https://sherafy.com/does-apple-support-israel/

Yes. It’s a choice, though. When I worked for a large tech company those things happened with conscious planning.

They also fund have a donation matching scheme that allows funding the IDF and who are involved with illegal settlements. I’ve used their products for fifteen years now, unaware of all this. Never again. https://www.tbsnews.net/worldbiz/usa/apple-under-fire-matching-employee-donations-idf-and-illegal-settlements-879791

When I was on TikTok, I tried to stick to the “following” feed only, but it was very hard not to check the “for you page” (algorithmic feed), because the app is so good at knowing how to dazzle the user. It also defaulted to showing the algorithm when the app is reopened.

I only know a handful of other people who used the app, but they described the same problem: they follow people, but then they just use the algorithmic feed instead anyway.

All this to say that there are ways to present a choice to the user in such a way that users will not engage with that choice.

It’s Chromium, according to Wikipedia.

Good on you for trying

Gods forbid we be inconvenienced in the slightest.

Surprised nobody has mentioned Ecosia yet. Web searches there are responsible for planting 250,000,000 trees. I can’t think of a better justification for using a search engine.

Déanta ✍️

Yes. I think they just need to get their data centres built. Once they’re in position there will be less to report on, unless the people find a way to make the already existing centres newsworthy. That’s harder.

The “backlash” is half hearted and also sensationalised a little in the media.

People have not come together to meaningfully boycott these platforms. Boycott is the language these capitalists understand.

I do not understand why people still use meta platforms, for example. We could level these companies quickly. The excuse that “everyone else I know is there” is wilful paralysis: waiting for someone else to go first. And that’s why these tech oligarchs are confident. They’re probably right to be.

Yes, and the EU is currently promoting a very dodgy EU platform. When respected individuals report on the dodgyness , the get smeared as spreading “targetted disinformation” https://mastodon.ie/@elena@aseachange.com/117149520169152585

As much as i despise Meta and our governments who collude with them, my biggest disappointment is our fellow citizens who enable them the most.

Apparently the advice is that because the domain is so young, emails could get filtered into spam https://toot.fedilab.app/@apps/117140609785780347

Yes, I would assume that defederated instances would just have to be ignored. I hadn’t thought of this. Good point.

That’s cool. They’re halfway there. If there was an option to choose one to have your post added as a comment it would be perfect imo.

Yeah. Choice is essential.