Skylar MacDonald
TerrorBite ๐ฆSome people need to remember this before they post
Min 
@TerrorBite It's hard to believe that Internet Explorer back in Windows 98 respected your privacy more than modern browsers...
Draconic NEO@minneyar
I mean, not really. They didn't have as much infrastructure to collect user data, nor did computers have lots and lots of free Memory and CPU threads to run extra processes that weren't doing anything for the user. They needed to be efficient. Data collection isn't efficient when you're talking about a computer that runs at a couple hundred Mhz and a couple megabytes of RAM.
Li ~ Crystal System@minneyar @TerrorBite I mean thereโs also a warning about redirecting from an plaintext http site to an e2ee https one (not the other way around)
JoYo@TerrorBite me, for sure.
The Sleight Doctor ๐๐@TerrorBite To be fair, everything was HTTP back then.
@ApostateEnglishman
That is true, thank goodness for SSL/TLS becoming standard, if not al but required.
Varbin 
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mjdxp@TerrorBite do you think the web would be a better place if modern browsers still had that message
Beau@TerrorBite at some point everyone has ticked that checkbox and this is how that wisdom was forgotten.
Earthshine --> moved@TerrorBite ow my bones. :(
Trammell Hudson
rk: itโs hyphen-minus actuallyHah, first thing I thought of.
unnick 
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Sarathai@TerrorBite So there was a time, when the internet Explorer was the moral guide through the internet? Was that 3.02? What did Netscape Navigator say?
Stephen De Gabrielle
Joshua Byrd@TerrorBite Everyone clicked the checkbox and then everyone forgot!
miketcope@TerrorBite I do remember that! Also crazy that itโs less than 30 years from that to โweโre going to save pictures of all your information in ways that it is definitely possible for others to see not give you a choice about itโ
hairylarryI would tell people, "If you want something to remain secret don't put it on the internet. Don't send it in an email. Don't share it in a private message."
Private has a different meaning on the internet. In other words when they say private they're lying to you.
Joacim Jacobsson@TerrorBite you canโt just throw shade like this and not boost the reason for it :)
@jjacobsson surprisingly it's not a subtoot, though it's vaguely directed at the kind of people who might make cursed posts (including myself).
I did think when posting that people might think it was a subtoot, which I found amusing, so I posted it anyway.
Sluether 
@TerrorBite me when my inside thoughts try to become outside thoughts.
Lucy [hiatus era] ๐๐ฏ
The Turtle@TerrorBite In the early days of birdsite, there were people who seemed convinced it was ONLY FOR THEM AND THEIR FRIENDS EXCLUSIVELY as if no one could read anything they posted. They'd freak out when total strangers would reply to their tweets.
"WHO R U??????"
I'm like, girl, you just asked ten million people what you should have for dinner, so yeah, there are people who will send you off-the-wall shit in response.
Like me.
Karen E. Lund ๐๐@TerrorBite It ought to have read "Do not show this warning for three months" or something like that.
I wouldn't want to see it every time (and people become inured to such things) but ought to be reminded occasionally.
TiTiNoNero 
@TerrorBite
Who could even think that checkbox was so funcking binding for the rest of our lives...
Who could even think that checkbox was so funcking binding for the rest of our lives...