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@lemmy.nameYup, a lot of very sophisticated mobile malware does not have persistence. His advice holds up.
At the current usage, I really doubt it. If a significant amount of people start using RSS readers as an alternative to the third party clients they were using previously, it's a possibility.
This strikes me as very exploitative. Capitalizing on loneliness to enrich yourself gives me bad vibes (especially when the users of this thing will actually be worse off mentally in the end, as @cnnrduncan mentioned).
I have no doubts that for some users, it'll turn into a cycle. They'll feel lonelier each time they use it, which pushes them to use it more, and so on. Amouranth does nothing to protect these vulnerable users. I had the same feelings about Replika years before ChatGPT became a thing.
0.18 will also massively improve the user experience for y'all (whenever Beehaw updates). They ripped out the old websockets architecture, which eliminates all of the weird glitches like upvotes disappearing or random posts popping up in your feed.
No, but I had the Game Boy printer back in the day! Printed a lot of Pokédex entries with that guy.
improving.duckduckgo.com is not something they try to hide, you can easily disable it in your search engine settings. DDG was launched in 2008 and has a pretty solid track record - I think we can forgive the Names DB thing at this point.