LinkedIn Wants to Share Your Data

LinkedIn will use your data to train AI – how to opt out | Proton

On November 3, LinkedIn will begin sharing your data with Microsoft and its affiliates for AI training. You’re opted in by default, but there’s still time to do something about it.

As I’m gearing up to return to work, I’m catching up on my professional networks, including opting out of AI related stuff where ever possible.

A setting like this should never be opt-in by default…

There’s Free, and Then There’s Free

Paying for the indie/small-web | Forking Mad+

Just because you don’t hand over any of your hard-earned cash, doesn’t technically mean it is free. People have given a huge amount of their time to make your life more pleasant.

There are two kinds of people on the internet; those who appreciate the efforts of indie bloggers & developers and choose to support them, and those who feel because it’s offered “free” it’s theirs for the taking without giving any credit whatsoever.

I choose to be the former.