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Instead, ban the collection of non-essential data, and also ban the targeting of advertisements based on user profiles/history
Only select advertisements to display based on the immediate context, exactly like printed newspapers and magazines
I think it’s possible for a Chrome-based browser to have better ad-blocking than Google Chrome
https://www.spacebar.news/stop-using-brave-browser/ is something I agree with, but Brave does have better ad-blocking features than Google Chrome, despite using the same core engine
The worrying part is rewriting repository history to cover it up
Yeah, that’s going beyond the software and making the physical supply chain possible to validate by a sufficiently equipped and educated consumer
The trade off here is that it’s very difficult to produce verifiable circuitry that is also fast
I know Google just donated to Trump’s inauguration, and also does all the stupid surveillance capitalism crap that Google does, but I just compared prices, and Google Workspace is a few dollars per month cheaper per user than Proton is, for my needs (family, custom domain names, etc)
We’ve been on Proton for a few years, and it’s fine, but we do also have Pixel Android phones, and not using Google services constantly feels like swimming upstream, plus all family members also still end up having to use Google services for work, anyway
It’s just not practical for me to de-Google, which is a shame, so I think I’ll be switching in a few months, unless pricing changes significantly :S
The whole thing is weird and the CEO especially so, and not weird in a good way: https://d-shoot.net/kagi.html
For disappearing messages to work, your conversation partner has to promise they won’t take photos of their screen, and they have to promise to use an app that actually implements the feature instead of just pretending to, and the app developers have to promise to have implemented the code to delete a message when the service says it should
Is there actually a cryptographically-sound and physically-complete method for ensuring that a message is only legible for a temporary duration once it leaves your own device and is delivered to someone elses?
Hmmm, is CloudFlare known for being a bad actor in terms of privacy?
Setting that aside, no matter what you pick, you’ll be exposing your IP address, from which your ISP and/or general location may be derived
If you don’t trust CloudFlare with that information then you basically cannot trust anyone else, so maybe you’d need to run your own service and ping that instead now that you’re in a situation where you can only trust yourself 🤷
The other issue that comes to mind is that you’re only testing reachability to one address, which means you could get a false negative where that address stops working but the rest of the internet is actually fine
hmmm, I’d consider Apple and Google to be roughly equal in terms of general overall evilness these days
they both donate to support fascism and genocide, remove anti-fascism apps and anti-surveillance apps from their stores upon government request (even when not legally required), spy on their users, etc
and their software/products seems to be in the final phase of enshittification
the fact that GrapheneOS exists and works on Google hardware at all seems like a plus in Google’s column, however it’s only necessary because default Android/Chrome are not allowed to go so far as to protect users from surveillance capitalism (so it’s a plus only necessary because of a negative)
unless there’s a specific measure where Google does significantly worse?