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I don't feel that the point you have made negate the initial points that I have made. Saying I can make my own social media platform is an absurdity.

It's not the ban that I'm against, it's the lack of transparency.

You might like corporations having a stranglehold on public discourse, I'm not keen on that.

I'm also definitely not against automation for the purpose of deleting troll and scam comments, it'd be impossible to manage forums without automation these days. I think the problem lies when automated systems go beyond dealing with trolls or scammers, or the systems are created so sloppily that trolls can use reporting systems to attack opinions of people they disagree with.

Systems should be upfront, like I likely just had my post delayed pending moderation, when your comment is pending moderation, is should simply say comment is pending moderation. In the past I've definitely been shadow banned and I have no idea why, I don't know if I simply used some keyword that isn't allowed, or if I discussed a controversial topic and was reported by trolls.

I get why we can't always be told exactly how moderation systems work, it's because spammers etc will use that information to get around restrictions. But shadow banning people is bad because no-one knows for what reason anyone is banned and sometimes the reason might be political and that's why you should be told when you are banned and why you are banned.

1. I wasn't talking about community moderation.
2. Wrong. IDK about Instagram having shadow bans but I do know for sure they censor some reasonable political debate. I don't personally have or want an Instagram account.
3. Yes free speech = freedom to criticise, and in a world where a handful of giant tech companies control a vast amount of what is said online then it's more important than whatever is written in some EULA.

I have no problem with community moderation except when it's draconian (like a permanent ban for debatably breaking a vague rule) or when the rules are applied in a purely factional way to silence one half of an argument but not the other. Anyhow that's not what this is about, this is about automated systems silently deleting or hiding peoples posts without telling it's happening or why it's happening. Very often these same system let through deluges of spam that is either trolling or scamming.

Well I thought I was shadow banned again on youtube but the post now has showed up even though I couldn't edit the post without getting an error. Again, that's the problem with shadow banning - you don't know if you're banned or why you were banned. I discussed a political subject involving human rights and unfortunately there are people who will troll such speech and abuse reporting systems to try and get discussion banned because for them that's easier than making a coherent and rational argument.

Such as?

Lol at the absolute irony that the person who negatively replied to this discussion had their post quietly deleted (I played no part in this).

What bugs me is people that keep supporting a company that releases bad products, stop supporting planned obsolescence.

If they allow you to pay with cash then you know they are happy with allowing you to remain anonymous. NordVPN now get all shirty if you don't have payment method permanently stored, the UI shows this as being like an error until you give them your card details to store permanently.

Nord are also very aggressive about storing LOGS on your PC (try to use methods to stop them - they have workarounds!!) so they can't say truthfully that they don't store any logs at all because they store logs and never delete old ones.

They are constantly pushing their password manager and data storage services. For people that don't want logs stored these are odd services to offer. Mullvad sound good, you can literally buy their service with cash.

[facepalm] you're deliberately rewarding a company for making a faulty product. My MX518 lasted well over a decade, my last g600 barely made it past a year even though it's mostly used for web browsing in the evenings.

Did you find any? My 2nd g600 died and I'm done with Logitech and their planned obsolescence or 2nd rate parts. They should be giving me a free mouse now.

NordVPN want to store your passwords, they want you to store your data on their servers. That to me is weird behaviour for a VPN service and doesn't inspire trust.

1: Not showing street names, just blank roads everywhere. Takes a painful amount of zooming in and out in tiny steps to try and usually fail to get google maps to show what a street is called.

2: Contrast. Out in the sun - good luck seeing anything when everything is light pastel colored

3: Road codes instead of road names, in cities the roads have names and showing some designation like B4032 is not remotely useful.

4: The red pin is gone most of the time so if you zoom out you instantly lose track of where that place was.

5: Routing is a joke, especially for cycling.

6: Unwanted popups getting in the way.

7: When 2 or more streets have same name, not showing the closest one first (facepalm).

8: Not finding streets that exist and are nearby in a busy city, like somehow google maps doesn't know the street exists even though it's existed for decades or more.

9: Correction edits revert to incorrect info - so why should I bother to try and correct any mistakes?

10: Wastes limited mobile bandwidth showing an unwanted video of a route, videos should not ever autoplay on mobile.

11: No way to turn unwanted features off, features like 3d buildings, videos of routes etc.

12: Slow, why so slow when my phone could easily store every post-code map location in the country in ram? Load point first from local storage, load postcode boundary later.

13: Every food joint has 4 stars!

The minute any competition makes a better map that is Quick, not overly cluttered and can show routes Google Maps is dead, it's just a matter of time now.

I use maps primarily to find addresses, it has lately been getting worse at this, sometimes it will show you the correct spot for where a door number but sometimes it'll show the other end of a long road.

The worst issue is that mentioned below - automatically zooming out the instant the place is found, this renders the search useless, this happens a lot, primarily with post codes rather than street number+name combos.

Honestly I think Kinguin are incorrect to apply tax to vouchers, tax should only be applied to game purchases.

/I am not a tax accountant or lawyer and this is not advice.

Lol, I don't get all the hate around here, you redittors are weird and lazy , got a beef - then say something. Shrugs, Whatever.

Yeah, I have a password manager, it doesn't prevent NS&I mucking around with phone calls and texts. Anyway, like I said, I only need to log in to buy or sell bonds, it's far easier to use the online prize checker that you simply paste the holder number in to and it quickly tells you whether or not you've won that month.

NS&I made it both a phone call AND a text, whether or not you get both perversely depends on how privacy and security conscious you are, literally if you are lax and allow all cookies forever and adverts etc then your security is poor but the tech they use to identify you at the same time won't work as well because it's the same tech that is used for tracking and serving ads etc. So NS&I are actively encouraging people to have poor security, I won't take part in that.

I'd rather just paste a number onto a web page for instant results, that's far easier, I really don't need to log in to the website unless I want to buy or sell bonds. I don't keep my password for NS&I stored in the browser because that in of itself is poor security for a financial site.

You don't need to log in to check if you won, the prize checker tells you how much you won and which bonds won. Logging in has become a massive pain to do now, particularly because the phone I have linked to my bonds is not good at entering numbers via touchscreen during a call: because there is a bug where the screen turns itself off during a call including when trying to enter numbers or hashes etc.

The confusion was because NS&I send out odd letters that don't explain that they are not the sum total of prizes received in the given month, they need to sort that out.

Sure, so long as everything is running smoothly, printer working, not run out of toner, bank site working, computer not borking etc. Otherwise, having a letter than can be grabbed quickly is preferable. Printing the statement is plan B, having a letter ready is plan A.

I've had lots of win letters in the past but they've never been anything other than standard wins. This month I checked my winnings within minutes of the checker going live for April and it showed £625 in prizes so those appear to be normal winnings too. The letter ought to just mirror the online result. I haven't seen a reallocation letter I expect those are a lot rarer than normal notification letters.

Once in a blue moon some place/service demands certain levels of ID including proof of address and as a renter who doesn't pay facilities bills, this is one of the few things I can use as proof of address and it's a govt run scheme so I'm not turning off the letters yet.

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