“Attention, trailer swings out!”

Wouldn’t that imply the existence of a ExtensibleMarkupLanguageHypertextTransferProtocolRequestFactorySingleton?

If the product you’re using is free, the information you enter is what’s being sold to someone else.

Even paid services can and usually will sell your information, so just assume that everything that you enter is considered public information from that moment on

didn’t get permission from the original author

Tell me you don’t know xkcd without saying you don’t know xkcd. These comics are licensed as CC-BY-NC 2.5, which means you are allowed to remix and use them, without explicitly asking for permission, as long as you attribute the original/author (which is given here) and as long as you do it non-commercially (which is given for this post IMHO).

Yes, it’s their picture, but your data (in the sense that the AI is now trained with your likeness)

A small collection of English sources to keep it international:

(Obligatory) XKCD - get all new xkcd comics right into your feed reader

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal Geeky, fun webcomic about science and other stuff

Pluralistic.net Cory Doctorows Daily commented link dumps (and rants). Usually about enshittification of services/industries

Buried Treasure Blog about Indie PC games that are real gems but don’t get much coverage elsewhere but are high quality.

NOYB - None of your business. An Austrian NGO that fights companies so that they conform to the GDPR (more interesting if you’re from the EU)

Google Project Zero Blog Deep dive into some exploits and bugs. Very technical.

If you do not object, they can and will use your data, posts, images,… to train AI on it.

When you object, they (pinky promise) won’t do it (knowingly - they say you may end up in their training material if e.g. a friend of you uploads a photo of you but doesn’t tag you)

enforcing things like the EU

You mean like “client side scanning of all media you send via any (chat) app before encryption and sending all media that might trigger $algorithm to the police”? Yes, it happens only if you consented to it, but good luck using those apps without giving consent…

Its searxng now (the original searx is dead) and is quite good. Performance differs. I’ve seen very slow instances, but when I started hosting my own semi-private instance, I saw how fast it can be, if the server isn’t a potato.