Well crap I just got mine.... Should have know that last sale was too good to be true.

Happy birthday!

Great article, interesting take. Feels wierd but am gasp optimistic now?!

Thanks! Will check out this system might be good for con games to. Also, always good to see groups co-gming I think it works out well and keeps burnout at the bay :)

Correct! I just updated title and added this info to the top of my post.

Nope I didn't! But now I do. Thanks friend :)

Updated title and added an edit to the top to state what I think was the salient info discussed.

Fair enought and thanks for that info.

I was mostly posting to get community feedback and thoughts, so I shared what I came across. Figured people out there would know way more about this the I.

Good to know thank you. :)

To be fair I had just opened sync, played around with how it looked and scrolled a bit when I noticed this.

I don't recall clicking many links, but I could have certainly. Who knows just by looking at thumbnails soemthing could have been passed through?

Cheers mate The track blocker says "attempts" pretty clearly I wasn't trying to mislead

https://ibb.co/DzWMFMy

Says "36 tracking attempts blocked ".. So perhaps poor wording on duckduckgos part?

Hello, yes duckduckgo has an app that turned on a blocker to try to strip and block tracking attempts. I keep it running and it seems to catch alot.

What raised my eyebrow was it started alerting on a lot of new tracking attempts for Sync. I mean alot of android apps do the same thing this isn't just for Sync so it's not doing anything unique there. It was also the laundry list of info points that seemed off.

Figured I would post and see if anyone else has seen the same.

I plan on buying the app, I assume those attempts will go away without the ads.

Hello! Promise no malice intended.

I was just playing around with the app and noticed duckduck go blocking a ton of new tracking attempts.

I can only go by what was stated in the app as "attempts" hence my post.

Someone who understand how duckduckgos tracking blocker work might know better however. Perhaps you are 100% right.

Also I am very happy to run a one shot online for you and your group! I can do a solid one in 4 hours and should help you see if it's worth your time. :)

I love cyberpunk and have run many different systems and settings over the years. A few years ago I picked up The Sprawl a PBtA book and it clicked. Of course very narrative but with the cyberpunk stuff you want- hacking, gear, cyberware but without a ton of book keeping.

Is it perfect? No, but it's a good fit if you like to narrative games. It's default is mission based gameplay, but have done several campains breaking out of that mission structure. Doing a Shadowrun campain right now :)

I can't recommend it enought! DM me happy to chat more!

http://www.ardens.org/games/the-sprawl/

I wish I could HoA would throw a fit. Long term plan is more rual and will try to keep it local for most of the "lawn"

I am sure this might have been mentioned by someone else but my concern - someone that is financially motivated and saavy could work on becoming one of the larger instances in hopes Meta will buy them out. Similar to a startup, make a good product (community) and hope to get bought out for big bucks.

This means we need to trust instance owners and they in turn, as they get larger, need to be over transparent of their motivations, goals, and actions

Quesion: I don't know if the tech limits this, but if an instance owner flips to the dark side- could past posts and content be opened up for Meta mandated data scraping? Or would any code change like that not be retroactive? Aka if we select an instance that turns bad could we be feeding the machine in the future without knowing it today?

This made me tear up. Working with my son through his adhd issues made me angry and sad I went through the same without any support.

Yup I feel the same!

It's amazing where you tend to find the predators. I hardly see news of trans people doing shit like this.

He is dangerous. I don't nessesary disagree with everything he says, but this mindset is institutionalizing dangerous non science based decision making.