Users Find Their Real Names Are Being Googled in Israel After Using Verification Software "Au10tix"
https://www.mintpressnews.com/x-users-find-their-real-names-are-being-googled-in-israel-after-using-x-verification-software-au10tix/290703/
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AnAmericanPotato@programming.dev · 136 pts · 137d
Sometimes I have to wonder, what's it going to take to make people leave X?
I mean, it was a shithole even before Musk bought it, 4 years ago, and it's gotten predictably and steadily worse ever since.
dessalines@lemmy.ml · 71 pts · 137d
It's not just twitter, this software is also used by airbnb, linkedin, and paypal.
Businesskasper@feddit.org · 13 pts · 136d
k I need an alternative to paypal now :(
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone · 24 pts · 136d
Paypal is pretty much the ground zero of evil in the world.
zealouscurmedgeon@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 135d
Thiel himself said 4/6 of the founders were making bombs back in HS.
dan69@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 137d
Now I have to remove LinkedIn - this a good reason! It over reduces my cyber footprint overall. I only have it bc it’s required for a places that I’ve applied about 60-70%.
ChapulinColorado@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 136d
They did me the favor of removing my account when they asked for my ID "to protect my identity".
dan69@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 136d
Sound phake! I’m over skeptical of the new real id thing overall so I won’t be bothering with it until the last moment.
MrSoup@lemmy.zip · 20 pts · 137d
It's a live experiment. How much a platform can enshittify before people leave? We are still going to find it out.
LaoiseFu@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 137d
4 years?! Is this purgatory?
Pissed@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 137d
FauxLiving@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 137d
Getting them addicted to something more addictive, like meth.
FauxLiving@lemmy.world · 103 pts · 137d
No way, an Israeli company founded by Israeli spies is spying on people who speak out against Israeli crimes.
shocked-pikachu.webm
Flagstaff@programming.dev · 29 pts · 137d
thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 135d
*webp
FauxLiving@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 135d
thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 135d
?
im not the one who downvoted, i upvoted this
FauxLiving@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 135d
My bad, social media reflexes are hard to break :)
merdaverse@lemmy.zip · 50 pts · 136d
My garbage landlord installed an overengineered gate opening mechanism for the parking lot. The system is made by an Israeli firm and you can only open it by using an app that is a privacy nightmare and asks you a ton of personal information (including full name). If you're dumb enough, there's also a "feature" to enable tracking your GPS position constantly so the gate opens when you're near it.
It's absolute garbage and there was a break in this year because any kid could figure out how to open it. I have no words.
s38b35M5@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 137d
You can't make this stuff up.
A service requiring users to upload verifiable identification info, created and staffed by literal government spooks. And -- what?!? -- they're using said data inappropriately?
Captainautism@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 27 pts · 137d
On topic, but a side note…this is how come my trust in privacyguides.com tanked a few weeks ago. They fully support X and actually recommend using it. It’s a bunch of sloppy children running that site.
Hunter30@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 136d
Can you link the privacyguides article? I used to rely on them quite a bit, so this would be disappointing to me. The only recommendations i found for social media are mastodon and element https://www.privacyguides.org/en/social-networks/#posting-content
Captainautism@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 136d
It’s not an official recommendation from them. They post a lot about how there is nothing wrong with X on their forum.
punkibas@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 136d
Source?
Captainautism@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 136d
I am a former member and had the discussion with the guys in charge over this.
punkibas@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 135d
So where do they actually recommend people to use twitter?
Is this just a private conversation you had with someone from their org?
Captainautism@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 135d
It was a public conversation I had on their forum.
Imaginary_Stand4909@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 8 pts · 136d
Yeah, I'm pressing X to doubt on this one because the website still only recommends Mastodon and Element, and the page literally talks about why federation and decentralized social media is vital to privacy and anti-censorship. They even have people in the forums talking about twitter frontends so you don't have to actually go to the site. They even purposely try to avoid promoting their accounts on centralized media, the footer of every page only shows Mastodon, Matrix, Peertube, and Bluesky.
It's privacyguides.ORG btw. Are you thinking of privacytools.io?
Captainautism@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 136d
I’m talking about the site I wrote about but had the .com wrong. I was an active member there, and had it out with Jonah about X
Lanske@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 137d
Real people are still on X? I thought it was mainly bots and twats now
liaizon@social.wake.st · 19 pts · 137d
@dessalines weird to see their Wikipedia page reads like an ad https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AU10TIX
Transform2942@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 137d
Where is your NPOV now NATOpedia?
dantheclamman@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 136d
Good excuse to get editing :)
I have brought NPOV back to several pages that clearly had been polished up by marketing firms. Thankless work, but always rewarding to destroy some astroturfing company's work
Bloomcole@lemmy.world · -4 pts · 136d
Even on Lemmy people think Wikipedia isn't shit.
It can't be trusted.
comfy@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 136d
It wildly depends on the articles/topic, but yes, it's generally not trustworthy. Especially anything politics or corporate, but sometimes articles on objective topics can have issues.
trackball_fetish@lemmy.wtf · -1 pts · 135d
Said someone who's never tried to edit an article. They watch that shit like a hawk and require sources for everything, if not they'll revert your changes.
Bloomcole@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 135d
That's garbage.
There have been plenty instances where articles were manipulated.
BrainInABox@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 133d
I tried to edit an article that contained blatant falsehood, my change instantly got reverted, I got banned, and a group of editors tried to dox me. You're right that they watch it like a hawk, but only to make sure nobody corrects their bullshit.
nutomic@lemmy.ml · 18 pts · 136d
Why is it always Israel? You would think that this would be done somewhere in the US or UK, but no.
geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml · 22 pts · 136d
Israel shares all their spyware data with the US and UK. Basically they let Israel do all the illegal stuff as a legal (actually illegal but they don't care) loophole.
dessalines@lemmy.ml · 19 pts · 136d
I have yet to read this book, but The Palestine Laboratory is supposed to outline how a lot of the surveillance and weaponry used today are first developed and tested in Israel to aid the occupation, then exported to other countries.
nutomic@lemmy.ml · 15 pts · 136d
Right and also many western police/military receive training from (former) IDF soldiers. Seems like Israel is the blueprint for the future of our countries.
MML@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 136d
Not part of 5 eyes?
DancingBear@midwest.social · 12 pts · 135d
DisgruntledGorillaGang@reddthat.com · 11 pts · 136d
Emphasis mine. How are people this fucking stupid? VERIFYING YOUR ID IS DIVULGING YOUR REAL NAME.
Pissed@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 135d
trackball_fetish@lemmy.wtf · 9 pts · 135d
Hear me out: probably not a great idea to even throw your name into trends
Gelik@feddit.dk · 9 pts · 135d
Wow, that's odd... I never heard about a service that set up alerts for when your own name being googled. Wait, these people are putting their personal name in Google Trends?
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today · 9 pts · 136d
notastatist@feddit.org · 12 pts · 136d
Username fits.
Im not pro Israel, they can fuck themselves. But wishing nukes on people because of a company is hard man..
WaxRhetorical@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 136d
Hardly because of a company. You'd have to be living completely off the grid to be unaware of the atrocities being perpetrated against their neighbours
notastatist@feddit.org · 1 pts · 136d
And thats why you need to nuke them?
I hope for the death of bibi and his friends. And for an uprising of the fight against them, but nukimg them would make us worse then them.
WaxRhetorical@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 136d
That wasn't my comment, I was just pointing out that reducing the argument against Israel to "one company is bad" is severely downplaying the situation.
BrainInABox@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 133d
Feddit Zionists are desperate to scapegoat Netanyahu for all of Israel's crimes
Eddbopkins@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 137d
bold_atlas@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 135d
These people do know that is X is Elon Musk's personal child porn/shit posting/data scraping website right?
Why not pay and give your docs to Encyclopedia Dramatica too?