Comment by anonnon
1 day ago
> TikTok deemed I should not have access to my account ever again, and X (formerly Twitter) is delaying a response to my appeal to the suspension, but I have not much hope; I reckon it's gone for good. I may have lost all the personal contacts and content from there, but on the bright side, that has taught and made me see some other things, besides the importance of being a little smarter to not blindly install extensions like my life depended on it.
Well, losing access to both TikTok and X could be considered a bright side as well. But more seriously, isn't it tragic that you can't just blindly assume any piece of OSS isn't malware, anymore?
Not sure why OSS is mentioned here, should just say "software". And it's always been like this (be careful).
> And it's always been like this
Not, it hasn't. The open source community was much smaller, and much more tightly knit 20 years ago, and it was intrinsically much higher-trust.
Maybe out of ignorance, but that didn't span every internet subculture.
The whitehats/grayhats have always been super paranoid.
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