Sharing users’ data with China means storing Chinese users’ data in local servers that can be accessed by local authorities (as any servers, really). It doesn’t mean it would have sent data from, say, French users to Chinese servers. Another sensationalist bs article.

Beautiful post. I am already foreseeing linking to it in a heated discussion, this is rock solid.

They went as far here in Ukraine as making some services exclusive to those who have the app. The official government app for digital documents and services, Diia, also has stupid integrity check, which makes it unable to be installed from Aurora Store, which makes me cut out from such services, because I don’t have Google Services installed. By the way, there are Google trackers in the app.

Most of the cost from not moving from requiring phone to be connected to people’s accounts and not desiring for the central server to federate with others.

“It’s not censorship, it’s counter-disinformation measures!! 1!”

Many messengers did

Every state wants a monopoly on violence. The more powerful the state, the less there are entities that could opress you except the state itself. So it’s not unexpected that the cops would object to have a “competitor” with facial recognition technology

I’ve been doing this for a few years and eventually got tired of whitelisting websites. I’ve went as far as using NoScript for fine-grained control, but what’s the point? If you need a single feature JS, or a single article on a domain, you will let everything run if you grant the permissions, so why bother?

Better keep JS on and run an up-to-date browser with a custom DNS to filter out known malicious websites. Also, don’t visit random links, that’s an actually good advice.

You can do that, but Simplex has a limit on the amount of users in a group due to encryption. There is no point in using an e2ee messenger for public announcements

Tf is LEA? I can’t find any relevant info on what this is.

How is IA profitable?

GPay doesn’t work on GrapheneOS IIRC.