every dollar prevented from going to cengage or pearson is a win for college students
but their online homework and grading subscriptions that they tie in with textbooks is definitely making it harder, especially the way they pay off schools to push their texts and curriculum on professors in stem fields, it’s awful and puts students in a position where they’re forced to pay for a textbook regardless
anecdotal but i ended up switching from ddg and searxng to brave because of how much more relevant and well structured i found their search results to be so i’m not sure i agree with the findings for that column
absolutely hate the company and am skeptical of their practices, but even considering all that their search toes the line of privacy and functionality better than some others, at least in the case of a daily user who needs a service that lies somewhere in the middle of those 2 extremes
lol the absolutism of people in privacy communities can be really be so unhelpful and tonedeaf at times
For discord there’s a couple things that can increase privacy to some degree, OpenAsar has some options related to privacy and tracking and will speed up load times, no clue how effective the anti-tracking feature is though. You could also use modded or 3rd party clients, I remember hearing about Powercord back when I used discord more and Replugged seems to be the continuation of that project. I also remember hearing of clients that basically simplifies the app to an IRC client with a super basic gui, I’ll edit if I remember the name
Not at all, from my experience they teach you how to use the websites and programs needed to complete assignments and nothing more, same went for teachers and faculty who would have no idea how to do things like change inputs on displays, turn on projectors, tell the difference between online and local versions of software, etc
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my feelings exactly, why even bring up political action in the context of something so urgent without emphasizing direct action and bottom-up political organization
i literally just listen to jungle and watch the occasional vid on sociology i’m just as confused as u are
oh for sure, it’s just on other platforms that usually only happens for content that I engage with or have engaged with in the past, which isn’t the case for what I’ve been seeing on youtube. there’s no reason for the algorithm to push content that I engage with less than all other types of content
Been getting right wing content in my recommended in the past week too, haven’t seen any of that since maybe 2017 when “sjw owned” videos were getting boosted like crazy by the algorithm, today I got recommended a video that looked like straight up fascist apologia. It’s really weird because I’ve pretty much only used youtube to watch explicitly left wing content or view content that has a largely left wing audience (music, visual art etc.) for the past 4 or so years, and whenever I do see right wing content I always click don’t recommend. I really hope it’s just my feed being fucky and that we won’t see another alt right pipeline sort of situation
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Same here! Still carry mine around and it’s partitioned so it’s also useful when someone wants to share a large file but doesn’t have the time to upload it or have the cloud storage to host it