Sounds to me like a local contamination
parpol
joined 2 years ago
Welcome to Linux. It works great as a media center instead of your ad-ridden smart TV as well.
If the Pihole is catching and blocking it, it is possible to have it trigger a script that for example registers a push notification. Since they have a Pihole, they could also run a self-hosted push notification service on the same device if they don't want to use the Google or Apple Push notification systems.
Switch instance to programming.Dev. they hide all politics and porn communities from "all" for you unless you subscribe to them.
It is the norm right now already.
The only way out is specifically buying only products that don't do this shit, or ones that have been jailbroken and run open source software.
But the very best way to stop it all for good is to kill online advertisement. Online advertisement is the number one reason companies want your data to begin with. Go to your grandma's house, install adblock origin and sponsorblock.
When you have kids. Disable the google play store and install fdroid, and install an adblocker on their chromium of gecko browser. Replace all default apps with the fdroid alternatives.
Get the oldest raspberry pi device and install Pihole, then make it your DNS service so all lan and WiFi data runs through your adblocker.
Donate to open source projects, brag to your friends how your apps have no ads and no tracking.
Fight for right to privacy and right to repair. Stop using google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Meta.
Use Linux instead of Windows. If you need windows, run it in a virtual machine without internet access.
Use grapheneOS, LineageOS, CalyxOS instead of basic Android.
As for home systems like security cameras, I suggest following the ultimate open source guide by Louis Rossmann.
Fuck elon, but also good riddance.
The AI race ends with everyone running cheap local models and no business being able to profit from them.
He's slacking off at the office, obviously.
YouTube tends to block "unusual" connections from large datacenters because of invidious instances running on them. By "unusual" it means invidious, freetube, Grayjay, etc. Anything not using the youtube API. You'll have to use a vpn service or privacy frontend run on residential IPs if you want youtube to work.
walks into room and sits down at the table
"So I'm unemployed"
That and people found out the data was being used to identify people who hadn't even taken the tests, but their family members had, and the data was being shared with third parties.
About time they retired C. Oh, that's not what happened?