17 hours ago · Tech · hide · 0 comments

I'm getting tired of this. Thanks, once again, to the wonderful Fediverse (I use Mastodon), I just learned that eBay automatically opted in all of their users to training their AI with personal data without their consent. You can opt out at this link: https://accountsettings.ebay.com/ai-preferences They're not even trying to respect users anymore. How can we even fight this madness? All of the Big Tech companies are doing this, and so much of our infrastructure, communication, and how we function day-to-day are dependent on the products and services of these companies. A mass boycott of these companies would require us to stop, well, everything. Besides, boycotting doesn't work without good parallel systems in place. There are alternatives, and there are good people working very hard to make them available and as easy to adopt as possible. But we are so far down this rabbit hole, we're not going to be able to get out without massive disruption to, again, everything. The best we can do…

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