Sometimes I have to wonder, what's it going to take to make people leave X?

I mean, it was a shithole even before Musk bought it, 4 years ago, and it's gotten predictably and steadily worse ever since.

No way, an Israeli company founded by Israeli spies is spying on people who speak out against Israeli crimes.

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My garbage landlord installed an overengineered gate opening mechanism for the parking lot. The system is made by an Israeli firm and you can only open it by using an app that is a privacy nightmare and asks you a ton of personal information (including full name). If you're dumb enough, there's also a "feature" to enable tracking your GPS position constantly so the gate opens when you're near it.

It's absolute garbage and there was a break in this year because any kid could figure out how to open it. I have no words.

You can't make this stuff up.

A service requiring users to upload verifiable identification info, created and staffed by literal government spooks. And -- what?!? -- they're using said data inappropriately?

On topic, but a side note…this is how come my trust in privacyguides.com tanked a few weeks ago. They fully support X and actually recommend using it. It’s a bunch of sloppy children running that site.

Real people are still on X? I thought it was mainly bots and twats now

Why is it always Israel? You would think that this would be done somewhere in the US or UK, but no.

@dessalines weird to see their Wikipedia page reads like an ad https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AU10TIX

They call me John but I go by Chang I guess.

The Israeli government is a terrorist state.

Across the world, from conservative Japanese accounts to American conspiracy theorists, anonymous users are reporting that data from Google Trends shows their real names, not divulged anywhere online, are being mass searched in Israel. 

How could this be happening? Some laid the blame at Au10tix’s door. “Only Au10tix and X holds my data obtained from ID verification,” wrote one user in a viral post, adding, “The rumors are absolutely true.”

Emphasis mine. How are people this fucking stupid? VERIFYING YOUR ID IS DIVULGING YOUR REAL NAME.

Wow, that's odd... I never heard about a service that set up alerts for when your own name being googled. Wait, these people are putting their personal name in Google Trends?

Hear me out: probably not a great idea to even throw your name into trends

That is a scary organization to exists.