So this, from Firefox, is fucking toxic: https://mstdn.social/@Lokjo/112772496939724214

You might be aware Chrome— a browser made by an ad company— has been trying to claw back the limitations recently placed on ad networks by the death of third-party cookies, and added new features that gather and report data directly to ad networks. You'd know this because Chrome displayed a popup.

If you're a Firefox user, what you probably don't know is Firefox added this feature and *has already turned it on without asking you*

Microsoft killed my online life after I called Gaza

Palestinians calling home to Gaza on Skype have had their digital lives destroyed, after Microsoft closed their email accounts without warning.

Microsoft says they violated its terms of service - but will not say how - and the decision is final.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cger582weplo

#microsoft #skype #noazureforapartheid

Loin de l'attention médiatique, l'UE s'apprête à mettre sous surveillance les messageries privées, de WhatsApp à Signal, au nom de la lutte contre la pédocriminalité. Un projet de règlement dangereux dénoncé par tous les experts que je vous explique ici.

https://www.telerama.fr/debats-reportages/whatsapp-signal-l-ue-s-apprete-a-surveiller-tous-nos-messages-au-nom-de-la-lutte-contre-la-pedocriminalite-7020953.php

Remember kids:

IRC is free.
IRC is a open standard.
You can run your own IRC server.
IRC doesn't collect data on you and sell it.
You can still moderate your channels via invite, voice, and ban modes.
You can run a server on a 486.
IRC doesn't try to up sell you on "nitro".
IRC doesn't need to make money to make some VC happy.

An important map of "the extreme right in the EU" after the recent EU parliament elections, by the antifascist research collective @redox, translated by me from their article https://redox.dk/nyheder/se-kortet-saadan-ser-den-yderste-hoejrefloej-i-eu-ud-efter-valget/ in Danish.

Captions:
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The map shows an overall overview of votes for parties in the groups ID and ECR as well as right-wing radicals outside the groups*. The blue color scale shows, how many percents the farthest-right parties in each country have gotten. The brown circles show how many seats that gives in the EU Parliament.
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Source for votes numbers: EU Parliament • Note, that the numbers are continuously updated [in the original].
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In the article the image is interactive, so that one can mouse over a territory to get much more details on which parties, summaries of the parties' policies and actions, etc, but that's in Danish and far too much for me to add to this non-interactive version.

Worst 10 examples:
• Poland 48%
• Hungary 45%
• France 37%'
• Italy 37%
• Slovakia 37%
• Belgium 28%
• Latvia 28%
• Austria 25%
• Netherlands 21%
• Romania 20%