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dear #DuckDuckGo or other search engine: I want a little button next to every #search result that lets me exclude it from all search results for me, personally, forever. With an option to block the entire domain.

I'm definitely looking at #pinterest but there's just a lot of #AI slop out there. Tons of AI-generated websites. Even without the AI search "helper" things, I get a lot of shit that is just really low quality.

I don't think I see this witih DDG (there is a "give feedback" button with unclear effects on my personal search experience) and I'm not familiar with many other search engines now (except google and no). But if there's something out there that already has this functionality, I'll be happy to check it out and happy for the referral.

Every few months or so, Pinterest emails me that they’ve taken some post down that I liked, due to nudity, usually from years ago. I can never see what it is they find objectionable, so it’s pretty pointless. Then I log in and one out of twenty posts has nudity. They’re the ones feeding me this shit.

Qué problema: #CostaRica no tiene neutralidad de red.
Todos los proveedores de telefonía celular ofrecen planes que subsidian #whatapp #facebook #instagram #waze #x o #pinterest
Esto hace que gente con pocos recursos o los que pasan sus vidas endeudadas estén más inclinados a usar estos servicios y de esta manera se hacen más fuertes las companías.
Cuesta mucho hoy día en CR no tener el whatsapp o facebook.
Es hora que nos hagamos indepiententes de estos servicios. Hasta ahora solamente han estado vendiendo nuestros datos. Y a mi nunca me han preguntando si estuviera de acuerdo con que suban mi contacto junto con el resto de la libreta a whatsapp.
Lo que ahora pasa es que los fascistas en el poder en #EEUU van a usar estos datos para acabar con cualquiera que no les haga caso o que no les caiga bien.
Admás, puede que el día de manyana paren los servicios para país X.
Hay buenas alternativas:
#Signal #threema #matrix
Y que dejen de hacer estas ofertas los proveedores.

I feel like #Pinterest was still pretty normal for interior design and clothing boards even six months ago?

I was just browsing kitchen-witchy cottagecore images, found that they are like 80% AI-generated at this point, and the pivot to tradwife and 'Sexualized Woman Laying at Alpha-Jesus's Suspiciously-Detailed Bare Feet' was sudden and quite baffling.

I've reached this point where I know Big Tech is useless unless I can free it from corporate greed with Linux and GrapheneOS.

Big Tech is like digital colonialism, siphoning creativity and exploiting consumers for profit while deepening inequality. These corporations treat individuals as mere resources in their relentless pursuit of profit.

Platforms like TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, and all those other platforms are just tools for Big Tech to exploit us. They're trash.

When will you stand up against their exploitation? Look at the harm they cause!

Oh, apparently I had a #Pinterest account.

I received an email about their updated Terms of service and Privacy policy.

Of course, because they want to train their #GenerativeAI models on your data.

I also noticed, when checking my settings, that they had "kindly" turned on permission to use my data because, of course, it's opt-out.

So, I just "kindly" deleted my entire account. (It was never really used anyway.)

The other thing that takes away time for me doing Youtube videos myself.

For some reason #pinterest has decided to promote nothing but fashion, in a context where I've been trying to promote my Blog that also syndicates my comic strip.

Just random tiktok fashion hauls, thrown every which way.