Having this info because of legitimate needs to provide a service and a third party processing it with AI without explicit consent for their benefit is a huge difference.

Of course I am referring to info my teammates would know too. Are you inferring that it’s fine that big corporations are profiling you based on what you’re chatting with your friends about?

To all the people in this thread hyping Linux. Please remember that those screenshots capture you as well if you play with windows users. If this becomes a staple and you refuse to be AI fodder, then multiplayer is pretty much dead to you.

In theory this is awesome. Humans aren’t built for menial tasks. All repetitive monotonous tasks should be automated. However, this doesn’t fit our current economic system. Obviously all automation needs to be taxed, so that we don’t have to live this paradox where each technological advancement is a risk to our livelihood.

You can use filen.io, which I like. It’s based in Germany and GDPR compliant.

Their app is on github, so you could use obtainium to manage it: https://github.com/FilenCloudDienste/filen-mobile/releases/tag/v3.0.25

I assume he’s talking about the DNS resolver within the app. Mullvad has a couple options: https://mullvad.net/en/help/dns-over-https-and-dns-over-tls

It works just fine for me btw, even when blocking ads and trackers

I use XMPP and it’s good. SimpleX is even better at anonymising meta data afaik

Is there a specific reason you’re using an old english / icelandic symbol instead of “th”?

They really can’t, I’m not blaming them. Maybe they could pivot ressources to contribute to sailfish or postmarket in some form. Android is pretty much dead for people who want to own their devices at this point.

Jesus that post is bleak. It’s basically “Please write your political representative to do something or we’re forced to close up shop”. Since all our political representatives are walking around with massive hard-ons at the idea of surveilling us, it’s basically a poorly veiled good bye note.

Now more than ever people will have to choose between privacy and comfort. And not to be a dick, but now more than ever, people choosing comfort are fucking over people who choose privacy.

I don’t think privacy enthusiasts use vanilla Android. People will stick to Lineage/Graphene for as long as it works and then switch to something like Postmarket. It’s already in a state where it’s rough but usable.

Call me a conspiracy nut job , but I honestly think we live in a new age where it’s the other way around. Megacorps are creating a situation where governments are set up to fail and then swoop in to save the day “alien earth” style, so everyone can be forced into lifetime indentured service.

While I full heartily agree with you, I’m pessimistic you will ever reach enough people with these alternatives. Even on privacy forums you hear people fervently defending how banking apps are mandatory. Those will never run on anything that isn’t locked down. The eID proposal for the EU is also dependent on Android and iOS.

I know it’s a pipe dream, but what if WhatsApp chooses to not compromise their encryption either. You’d have chat control but no chatting. Would be kinda interesting to see.

Signal is nice because it has a pretty good adoption rate even with non techies (which is why they’ve been mentioned by name in the chat control proposal). But privacy enthusiasts will still have briar/simplechat/xmpp. Those aren’t centralised like Signal and will be a lot harder to regulate

Doesn’t Signal work with phone numbers? They will probably block every EU number from accessing the service to protect themselves legally. Maybe you could use something like jmp.chat to circumvent that? Probably need a VPN as well to mask your IP. In any case, it will decimate the user base, so you’re left chatting with yourself anyway.

Wouldn’t the better idea have been to load specific DLLs on activation of a function then? Dicking over users that know how to use their OS for the sake of digital slobs seems unfair.

Accessing the internet would implicitly only be possible with a google or apple account.This smells like a class action lawsuit in the making.

Allegiance to a country is such a nonsensical concept anyway. What is inferred is an allegiance to a government. A government is delimited by time, so in theory you should need to reaffirm your allegiance each voting cycle. Furthermore, what does allegiance encompass? I do not know of a single government I would align myself so deeply with, that I would go to war for it for example. That doesn’t mean I dont like my country.