• Scott 🇨🇦🏴‍☠️@sh.itjust.works
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    10 days ago

    What the fuck is wrong with just saying email? It’s been around for decades.

    If someone said to me “Could you crack a Linux” I would walk away slowly and avoid eye contact.

  • HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml
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    10 days ago

    Picking another corporation to base your language around isn’t better. Why not refer to the general privacy concepts that corporation claims to have?

  • jokeyrhyme@lemmy.ml
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    10 days ago

    hehe, yikes

    between Proton moving operations and its CEO being a MAGA (or at least a Trump sycophant), the advice to adopt Proton has really curdled recently

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      10 days ago

      Yes, all his musings about Trump cracking down on Google aged like fine milk. Everyone who paid attention knew this though. He should keep his mouth shut about politics and do his company a favor

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    10 days ago

    It would be safer if we discussed.this using encryption:

    1jdBaPK9ULsvBDnzbtGgE9ksCtpfJJFq/rB346x5jehKHY5tfrzdvycYhbLEmABF1jdBaPK9ULsvBDnzbtGgE9ksCtpfJJFq/rB346x5jehKHY5tfrzdvycYhbLEmABF1jdBaPK9ULsvBDnzbtGgE9ksCtpfJJFq/rB346x5jehKHY5tfrzdvycYhbLEmABF

    OK?

  • thermogel@lemmy.ml
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    10 days ago

    Instead, lets simplify: Search, Message, Email, Video Call… wtf is the last one

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    10 days ago

    This reeks of adults trying to explain to other adults about ‘internet speak’ and should have stayed in whichever marketing fools addled brain it came from

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    10 days ago

    but if enough people use google as a general verb, the word will stop being owned by alphabet (from my understanding)

  • LLMhater1312@piefed.social
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    10 days ago

    Its been so hard to stop saying google it but im getting there, they really got us good with their branding brain worm

    • zikzak025@lemmy.world
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      10 days ago

      At the same time, Google hates people using their name generically for web searching because it risks them losing the trademark.

      So I guess I am conflicted, because I hate to acknowledge Google more than I need to, but would love to see the term become meaningless.

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        10 days ago

        I use DuckDuckGo but say Google for this exact reason. If I’m talking to someone I actually like I usually elaborate to say “Google isn’t the search engine I actually use because it’s sus, but you know what I mean”

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      10 days ago

      Pretty sure “to google” means to search for something and get nothing but ads, bad answers, and frustration now. Dunno why anyone would want that.

      Or maybe it means “to create a cool product then kill it while it’s still popular.”

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      10 days ago

      Luckily I find it pretty easy to avoid using brand names and just use the plain old verb.

      Search it for me. Look it up. Message me. Send it to me, I’ll send this back to you. Set up a call, a meeting, a video call.

  • anothermember@feddit.uk
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    10 days ago

    Would be better if this had serious suggestions. But to add a serious one, please say something like “content blocker” instead of “adblocker”; you’re not freeloading by blocking ads, you’re choosing to not connect to unwanted privacy-hostile content with your computer and internet connection, as you should.