maybe residual firefox configs that were disabled but not purged?

I’m picturing people dumpster diving just to find receipts to scan. I didn’t know this was a thing… hell, I always destroy my personal info on mail packages, gonna start destroying receipts as well.

No, I didn’t let him take the picture and send it to who knows who :P

He also wanted me to sign up because he would get a referral bonus, but I’m good.

I wouldn’t be surprised if they have managers and assistant managers, with junior vice managers and branch assistant junior vice executive managers, with some millions of budget for market research and ads, and it was the unpaid internship guy that handled the YT acc though

Kinda funny they probably have a huge department with a huge budget made specifically for YouTube and whoever was handling uploading stuff failed to tick a box lol

Every Big Tech CEO for the last 10 years or so are Gen X, this massive surveillance and data collection is totally their thing, previous tech CEOs weren’t such scumbags :P (or just weren’t creative enough to be such scumbags)

Say that to the GrapheneOS devs and they gonna hit with 20 pages talking about sandboxing this and boolean that to show neither the OS nor the Vanadium browser can spy on you and point to all documentation :P

Well, if you say all alternatives from F-Droid are also spying, we don’t have much to talk.

Do you really block the word “improve” in your head? Not fucking once I claimed commercial OS could be private so you are arguing against your own imagination here.
Yeah, if someone got a phone and he doesn’t have the means of getting one compatible with a better OS, I really hope he manages to IMPROVE his privacy with better programs and workarounds. If you however don’t give a fuck and think it’s useless to try to improve his privacy because the OS is still shit, well, either buy that person a device that can use a better OS or move on, because telling that person to just buy it isn’t helping.

Like saying it’s useless to use Tor if you are not on Tails…
I suggest that you just admit you don’t want to help people improve privacy within their means. If they can’t have it all, they should have nothing.

Yeah, but while libre software is only available on specific, expensive hardware, it is a PRIVILEGE for the rich.

Do a test: think of a country that you believe people would need GrapheneOS to protect themselves against the government. Be sure Pixel phones aren’t available there, so just take the retail price of the latest model (because of its limited support time, and other models are going to be just as expensive, buying the latest is more cost-effective) and convert it to that country’s currency. Add 5% because banks get a share in the exchange. Expect that this cost will be at least doubled by tariffs, as third-world countries are full of protectionist taxes and corruption. Wait, we didn’t add the shipping costs yet. So if the retail cost of a Pixel is $800, expect someone from a third-world country to pay $1600~$2000 for it.
But wait, now check the average income of that place, and you can safely remove 30% of it to get a number closer to the real average income because of top 1% earners and higher income inequality. Now consider that if someone manages to spend only 80% of that income on housing, utilities, transport, clothing, food, healthcare, education/childcare, etc, that person is in a really comfortable zone and can think about buying a new smartphone. Hell, if that person is committed to not eating out even once and only keeps some money for emergency medicine and such, they could spend up to 10% on it. How many months would it take for them to pay for a Pixel 9?
I did the math quickly here: for a Venezuelan, it would take about 88 months of heavy sacrifices and having no savings, which means the phone would go out of support before they could fully pay for it… oh, and I didn’t take interest rates into account.

So yeah, thanks to everyone who gave tips on how to improve privacy and security on commercial OS.

My biggest beef when someone asks a question about improving security and privacy on a commercial OS and people say “just buy a Pixel/Fairphone” is that, besides not really answering the question, it complete ignores reality outside first world countries.

Mastodon has a lot of users, but I’d block the most political instances if that’s something that could ragebait her. Fediverse mods aren’t paid to give a fuck so the ban hammer comes easy… just block instances that are pro stuff she doesn’t like.

The data they can hand is your acc creation information and which IP accessed the email. They can’t hand email content because of zero knowledge encryption, and they can’t hand VPN traffic because it’s not logged and they can’t be forced to log it. https://protonvpn.com/support/no-logs-vpn/

I don’t get why they never suggest making it completely public every email, phone call and bank transaction of politicians and judges then… also, please, force them to wear a chip so we can always know their location… it’s ok to give it some hours of delay for security reasons, we just need to know where you have been to, no need to worry if you have nothing to hide.

I don’t really follow any channel but I saw a few videos from that guy that was a musician but now is really pissed at tech companies, the art of poison-pilling music and the ones about flock cameras were pretty good. Benn Jordan the name.

I was curious about your definition of clickbait title and how it fits this one though

What is your definition of clickbait title? I consider clickbait misleading, misinforming or non-informing, something like “He Built a Privacy Tool. You Won’t Believe What Happened Next.”

In this case here the title provides all the correct info about the video content - yes, he was arrested for building a privacy tool, he wasn’t charged for money laundering despite what real clickbait headlines might be saying.

Why the massive downvotes here? I think bitcoin is bullshit as much as the next lemming, but the whole situation you may cheer now because it’s a cryptobro getting fucked is what is going to happen to you tomorrow.

Summary: Guy basically made a Tor for crypto so transactions can’t be directly linked between users, and the government charged him with a bunch of bullshit claims and completely ignored the law to destroy it. Yeah, there is some PR stunt going on now with a presidential pardon, but that doesn’t mean the service is going back up.

In countries like mine, subjected to USA imperialism, USA puppets are already equating drug dealers to terrorists, and they also equate immigrants and refugees to drug dealers, so guess what?

If you visit the Tails website you are already put on a list of extremists, probably if you use Tor as well, it won’t be hard for any of the privacy tools you like to make you be called a terrorist too, Graphene is for criminals, isn’t it? We are just on whim away from a powerful asshole to decided that, because even if you believe you are “playing by the rules”, laws don’t matter. If it didn’t matter even for rich cryptobros trying to secure privacy for their users, imagine for you and your wishes of privacy?

I wonder how long before someone says “Having to wait for security patches to be made only when new exploits are discovered is inefficient, we need an AI agent running all the time, inspecting every command, to respond immediately if an exploit is found.” and then they just stop security patches and you need that AI crap consuming ram and energy like hell while sending all your data to the mothership.