They’re fed propaganda to believe that privacy doesn’t matter….

But just imagine a Google admin had access to all the information about you and wanted to blackmail you into doing something…. The sheer power of that is terrifying.

Could be another “ai is just cheap labor from India” scam.

But more importantly, at what cost here? I mean how much processing power and engineering time is required and at what cost….to try and detect bike thefts?

Wouldn’t it be cheaper just to buy them a new bike?

Tineye was the first, I don’t know if it is still around

I felt so lied to when I left high school, having been told my entire life that people eventually grow up…. And now I’m 40ish and they really don’t.

The awful things haven’t happened to most people yet

Most people don’t have any concept why their privacy matters.

And until something awful happens to them, they aren’t interested in learning it either.

I’d trust the “non officers” more than the officers in most scenarios.

Also an excellent point

In many unzip utilities, they use temp files that you wouldn’t be paying attention to. These temp files will contain your credentials and you won’t know where they are or if they got deleted.

Right? Like “make sure you get a warrant” isn’t a hard answer.

The problem is that so many site hyper-optimize for chrome. Add that to Google helping create web frameworks that seem to almost intentionally break Firefox and you get a de facto standard on chrome because ANYTHING else seems broken.

Long live FF

That’s fair and I see your point, I just haven’t seen any quality messaging apps that aren’t walled gardens in that sense.

Is it?

You can run and connect to your own signal server, separate from the world if you wanted to…

Interoperability with other messengers Vs privacy are separate requirements and use cases.

But don’t worry about Google’s web environment integrity….

There should be no reason to block ads

…… if you’re using chrome, Google baked these things in anyways sooo……

Whaaaaa?

No a vpn is NOT just about dns.

Dns is the starting point, but the main idea is to route your traffic through a central point without logs.

This means that from a network sniffing perspective, I know you’re sending data to the vpn endpoint, but the data is encrypted (also a vpn important point) and I don’t know where it’s going at all after that.

Even if I’m sniffing the traffic going out of the vpn endpoint , because there’s many people using the same point, while I can see that someone on the vpn was looking up pages on the pirate bay looking for the latest movie, I’m unable to match that to. A person connected. It could be one of thousands of people browsing with this vpn. So I don’t know that it was you looking for the latest minions movie.