Yes, every application has access to everything. The only exception are those weird apps that use the universal framework or whatever that thing is called, those need to ask for permissions. But most of the apps on your PC have full access to everything.

And Windows does collect and upload a lot of personal information and they could easily upload everything on your system. The same of course applies for the apps as well, they have access to everything except privileged folders (those usually don’t contain your personal data, but system files).

Don’t watch those, though the few I’ve watched didn’t really have that. But it wouldn’t surprise me.

But I think with kid shows it’s much more dangerous, they soak up the patterns and internalise them.

Same, I’ve been saying it for a decade that the current anti-men direction can only mean that young men will push against that and not in a nice way.

Well, guess who was right? Feminism has come all the way from something great and noble towards utter shit.

The dumb dad is fucking disgusting, it’s in pretty much every animated show for kids.

I’m not even gonna read it, but the 3rd pyramid is hilarious. Go on executives, just do it! See how it goes.

It literally does the same thing, except it’s self hosted?

I recommend caddy as a webserver, it’s very powerful, but the config is super simple compared to old school stuff like nginx or apache.

You can use frp to do the same thing a CloudFlare tunnel does without giving them your unencrypted data.

https://github.com/fatedier/frp

That’s true, but ISPs have logs. And if something happens that makes the police change their mind about enforcing the law, you might be fucked, retroactively.

If you live in an area where you need a VPN to keep your ISP off your ass

Uploading copyrightes material is illegal pretty much everywhere I know of.

No, that’s not what I’m saying. I’m saying your claim is nonsense and if you want a proof, you can run an experiment. Do it or don’t do it, your choice. Just don’t expect people who have an experience in running an instance to agree with you.

You probably missed the word “better” in there.

It’s not. Go on, really run that experiment, then you’ll know for sure.

Why don’t you run an experiment? Start a Lemmy instance with those ideals!

F-Droid uses the same way to install packages as the file manager does.

Well, both will be unable to install certain types of apps.

You mean Reddit, the company that would be very happy if Anthropic did the exact same thing, but paid Reddit first?

I mean, they can’t really tell you “here is a torrent with the necessary assets.”

They have to pretend they don’t know what pirating is so that Ubisoft’s lawyers can pretend that’s not what’s really happening for a huge chunk of the users.

So yeah, you can buy it (it’s usually cheap on GOG) or you can pirate it if that’s your thing.

Who would’ve thunk, standards exist for a reason.

Oh my fucking god, can they stop already? They’ve been protested to hell and back like 5 times already about exactly this issue.

I really hope someone exposes their secret affairs to prove why encryption is important.