If I didn’t bring my phone with me to begin with, which I often don’t, I would be in the same situation. I’m not saying the emergency service is useless to everyone. But the risk of it being off causing my death is so insignificantly small, the risk of someone tapping into my location far outweights it for me. We didn’t have phones when I grew up, and it should be OK not to rely on it for everything today as well. If that kills me (which it won’t), that is on me.

I could argue then that everyone should carry a first aid kit with them everywhere they go, or a rape whistle, then since it would save at least someone somewhere, but that’s a high burden to prevent something of low risk.

More importantly, why can’t it check the location when I actually make the emergency call, rather than every 10 minutes? It does not need my daily routine to locate me.

Now that I think about it, location is disabled globally on my phone by default anyway, and has always been. I turn it on when I have to, and immediately turn it back off when I don’t need it anymore.

I feel it would be kinda my own fault if I got in a car wreck on a freeway. What was I even doing there without a car or a licence?

And if I got lost in a forest, I obvisously wouldn’t need emergency services if my phone knew my exact location, would I?

Jokes aside, I could just toggle the permission on or off anyway, and I grew up without a cellphone to begin with. Yeah, there are risks, but to me this is phobia levels of precaution in exchange for giving out my exact location at all times to who knows. If that’s what kills me, that is entirely on me, but it very likely won’t.

Just take my job already

I doubt anyone would want to kidnap me, but if they did, trackers would probably help them.

Probably useful for people living in constant fear of being kidnapped, but personally I think I’ll just revoke location on this one.

Unfortunately this apples not only to games.

I’ve never wanted to download a car more than today.

what they mean is emails can be extremely easily spoofed. It is pretty much like me changing my username to pacjo to gain access to your account.

Can you order a GDPR-compliant one from Europe instead, or an older brand?

She should be wary of Chinese police kidnapping in Canada. They’ll probably threaten her with imprisoning her parents too. I hope she finds support.

You have the same garbage on YouTube but their algorithm hides it from you and shows it to the alt-right. Odysee doesn’t have an algorithm.

You can’t really have an algorithm and privacy at the same time, so the best you can do here is downvote and block the video/channel.

With enough downvotes (only around 2 more should be enough ) the video won’t be recommended as much.

You can see it has one green blob thingy. That’s my downvote. It isn’t a huge platform to begin with so it is not like it takes much to drive out the trash.

If it violates site policies or law, you can report the video and have it taken down, though it will only be taken down from Odysee, and not on other instances that use the underlying video hosting technology (LBRY)

Odysee is not a Nazi space. It is a privacy focused decentralized alternative to YouTube.

The largest group of youtubers on that platform are not the alt-right, but rather, the free and open source software community, privacy and decentralization advocates, and programmers.

Is there a mask version? As far as I know, the microplastics penetrate our blood brain barriers by first penetrating our lungs as we breath the flying particles in.

Same. I couldn’t even get them to get signal or any other larger service that isn’t privacy violating. everyone I know is on facebook and use their messenger, which sucks because I don’t live in my home country anymore and I want to delete my account but can’t just no-contact my family and friends.

didn’t realize i picked one of the top ten instances. lots of programmers here.