Yeah this is the cancer that is email 2FA.
Unfortunately email is the only way they have to verify your identity. No email, no account. But this is very much not exclusive to Rockstar.
I changed my email a couple of years ago and it’s absolutely astonishing how many companies are completely unequipped to deal with someone changing or deleting their email account.
There are plenty of music services that aren’t trying to do that.
Yeah I’ll never forget the first time I saw someone just casually browsing IMGUR and I was like WTF are you doing?
They’ve had the first 3 for a while
Oh, I didn’t realize they said they wouldn’t sell your information, despite having a privacy policy that explicitly allows for it. My mistake. No one would just lie on the internet like that…
I don’t have an “anchor point” other than what’s what’s fair and respectful of your customers. “We’re going to collect as much data about you as we can to sell to advertisers” is neither.
I’m so fucking sick and tired of everyone saying “WELL EVERYONE ELSE IS DOING IT TOO!” as if that’s any sort of defense. The world is fucked. You do you but I’m gonna do whatever I can not to contribute to it.
Pretty much “we collect as much data as we can and sell it to data brokers/advertising companies to be used to target you for advertising.”
It’s not YouTube drama, it’s international trade drama.
Yes, that’s the problem.
Honestly Brave News is the only solution I’ve found for that. Just go to Brave search and search for “news”. It will aggregate the top stories of the day, group the different sources, then provide an AI generated digest of the stories upon request.
I love that he responded to their takedown request by releasing an entire video about Bloomberg and their shitfuckery.
Nebula is a shithole, just have a glance at their privacy policy.
Floatplane would be ideal but I think he burned that bridge.
PeerTube is probably his best bet.
I don’t want to see his channel deleted but I’m also VERY interested in what would take place in the aftermath…
Sounds like a job for XMPP
This is way overkill for these applications. A low end mobile Intel processor will do all these things well and use much less power.
I run all of this and much more on an N100.
If we ever see a Slate truck, that will be your best bet.
Every night!
I know lots of people who just run the cable under the door…
What does spyware have to do with EVs?
Yes, it is the lazy way to secure accounts. No defense there.