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  • I Asked an AI Chatbot for My Data. I Didn’t Expect a Psychological Profile

    I’ve been paying €20/month for an AI chatbot. Not the free tier — the premium one. The one that remembers things. The one that thinks with you. I used it for everything. Career decisions. Travel planning. Creative projects. Emotional processing. I treated it like an oracle, a thinking partner that never judges, never forgets, never…

  • I Verified My LinkedIn Identity. Here’s What I Actually Handed Over.

    I tapped “verify.” I scanned my passport. I took a selfie. Three minutes later — done. Badge acquired. I felt a tiny dopamine hit of legitimacy. Then I did what apparently nobody does. I went and read the privacy policy and terms of service. Not LinkedIn’s. The other company’s. — Read on thelocalstack.eu/posts/linkedin-identity-verification-privacy/

  • Brave is an independent search engine

    This interview with a Brave Search designer explains why Brave Search is different from competitors like Google and DuckDuckGo. Brave Search is privacy first, and it is not built on top of search engines like Bing or Google (DuckDuckGo is built on Bing Search, for example). Brave Search is not yet 100% independent either, but…