Sounds like desolatemoon is your mom and they commented to make you happy. Jokes aside moms are the best.

The monopoly is the problem, someone using a pixel, using android, browsing using chrome, using Google search to find your website, visit an article website where you sign in via Google, see Google ads throughout, click on an affiliate link to buy a featured product of the blog and post using Google pay.

This is classic monopoly and Google chrome is small dab middle of it, if you want to break a chain you start from breaking it in the middle instead of the end like Google pay. Hopefully other things will follow soon.

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Not sure about red note, but tiktok used to log all available Bluetooth decide and used to send it to their servers.

It was the major argument I heard when Indian govt banned tiktok. Not in the media, but in the policy advisory circles.

I’m guessing red note would do the same given the chance. My point being, you might be okay with your data being with China, you might be putting others data as well. Not discouraging you to use it, just be aware of the consequences.

Also religion or no religion, assholes will be assholes. Even if all religion disappeared from the world like it was never there, number of assholes in the world won’t change.

Assholes don’t need an excuse to be one.

I am fairly sure it’s GitS, but I could be wrong