I can't even get too mad at this, it makes complete sense for an OS to have built-in malware scanning because casual users will unintentionally install dodgy shit. The key thing is that those of us who don't want Google having a nosey through our device can still disable it trivially, because if that option goes then suddenly we're as bad as Windows!
Assuming this is on an android phone with the normal Google Play Services on it then you should expect that Google can theoretically read anything that appears on it. It's probably not that sinister though, I don't imagine anything is being sent away and logged (though it theoretically could be!), there's probably just some process which reads every incoming notification and if it thinks it sounds like a task then it offers you the prompt. Is this some setting you haven't disabled in Google Assistant?
Is security not a merit?
https://ttrpg.network is a tabletop roleplaying game focused instance run by the people who ran r/dndnext
https://mander.xyz/ has lots of cool science and nature news and pics
You're allowed to type fuck on the internet you know
If they want you to use WhatsApp they can provide you with a device to use it on, then at least it's completely isolated from your own data and can't do too much harm.
Contains ads
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Bromite hasn't been touched for 6 months, so this is the opposite of duplicating effort, it's an effort to save the project!
You have a whole instance under lemdro.id, right? So why not create a sister community just for the memes?
FYI you don't need apps that pretend to be a VPN to block ads anymore, you can just go to Settings > Network and Internet > Private DNS
and set it to something like dns.adguard.com
to block almost all ads, no install required!
This is very much their propaganda tactic, that by not watching ads you're stealing from the poor content creators, when in reality they're just chucking a few pennies to the people who actually made the videos. If you want to actually support the creators then donate to their patreon or whatever, but don't pretend that watching ads or paying for premium is doing anything more than lining the pockets of investors.
Can we move away from the habit of just copy-pasting clickbait video titles with no information as to what they're actually about? Lemmy gives you a description field, you have the power to summarise videos which should really be blog posts!