Sometimes, sticking to just one or two apps might be better. I was thinking of posting this 2019 article about Private Internet Access, but decided against it because it was a little outdated and somewhat well-known… But a comment can’t hurt, right?
Kape Technologies was originally found under the name of Crossrider in 2011 developing advertising apps until they changed their name in 2018. However, their software was treated as malware by companies such as Malwarebytes and Symantec begging one to ask, how can such a company despite rebranding itself change the shoddy culture that it had?
But the connections don’t end there. The very first CEO of Crossrider, Koby Menachemi, happened to be once a part of Unit 8200 which is an Israeli Intelligence Unit in their military and has also been dubbed as “Israel’s NSA “. Teddy Sagi, one of the company’s investors was mentioned in the Panama Papers which were leaked in 2016.
https://www.hackread.com/private-internet-access-pia-vpn-sold-israel-privacy-concerns/
Unfortunately, I don’t think so. Most of the politicians were virtue signaling, asking questions that were impossible and demanding timetables that they weren’t going to get anyway. One woman actually had some half decent data prepared, but I don’t think anybody else was really taking it seriously.
Now if there was some legislation passed, specifically stuff that wasn’t KOSA, that would be something else. KOSA seems prepped to simply destroy free speech on the internet, and it would mostly harm smaller social media networks that don’t have lawyers and around-the-clock moderators to police every single comment and post.
If possible, F-Droid could/should be used as your first stop for looking for a particular app or type of app. Obviously you won’t find Tumblr on there, but it’s got you covered for replacement apps for things like SMS messages, a photo gallery, a calculator, flashlight, notepad, file editor… You get the idea.
Simple Mobile Tool
A group of simple, open source Android apps without ads and unnecessary permissions, with customizable colors.
From the Play Store, emphasis mine.
Based on that one Senate hearing, it looks like big companies like Facebook, Discord and Twitter are aiming for the maximum percent of false positives and false negatives when it comes to CSAM.
The only thing I know about that screenshot is that it used to say “show results anyway” which is probably worse in most cases
Couldn’t be bothered to read a couple more sentences?
However, two months later, the company announced that only educational and non-profit institutions could use version 1.0 at no charge.
Or if you’re more of a visual learner…
Update: and then AtariDump dishonestly changes the timeline and the goalposts. Glad I wasted my time on the troll
You serious?
NCSA Mosaic, free only for personal use. Dominated the market.
Netscape Navigator, cost money for personal use. Dominated the market even longer.
And if we look past you being wrong, I don’t even know what point you’re trying to make. Microsoft Internet Explorer was free in the '90s, and it was due to Microsoft trying to wipe out the competition through monopoly.
Does this comparison actually take into account whether you are using the same tabs on both browsers and keeping them in the same state?
I’ve noticed, for example, that in chromium, I can permanently increase CPU usage just by opening a console in a tab and leaving it alone in the background, even if the tab itself is doing nothing.
If both browsers have the exact same number of tabs open, I would question why one has around 40 processes and one has around 20. That number should correspond roughly to the number of tabs/extensions you have open.
The first version of Opera was shareware (i.e. paid and free)
Edit: AtariDump is a troll, but to people who aren’t:
The old adage “If you don’t pay for the product, you are the product” is often true.
Looks a little newer to me
https://github.com/wireapp/wire-desktop/releases
But the project has definitely slowed day down since when they started it.
Signal on the desktop does work even if the phone client is off, FWIW. This might have been true at one point, or at least for other apps, but it’s no longer the case.
ETA: you can even use the desktop app without a smart phone, although the setup not for the faint of heart… Just illustrative of how you shouldn’t need a smartphone (at least, not one that’s even turned on more than once a week) for Signal to work on the desktop.
What do you mean by “independent clients” - multi device login?
There’s Wire, but it still resembles Signal more than Slack. But apparently they’ve put some work into making it self-hostable.
https://docs.wire.com/versions/install-with-poetry/index.html
Matrix is still probably the closest thing to Slack, Discord etc that actually has functioning E2EE, but also includes cloud synchronization when people can remember their keys.
There definitely was some feature in Element Web that didn’t work and told me to use Desktop instead, unless I’m imagining things now.
It’s search.
Even in Element, last time I checked, search was incredibly half-baked and mostly useless.
I know you don’t want to use Signal, but it actually has searches that function.
“Indirect federation” (what I ended up eventually trying to find info on) appears non-existent.
That answered the question, I think, but it caused me to ask a few more, like this one:
What happens if a community is on Server A and Person C wants to check out how Person B is interacting on it. I think, in that case, that Person C can check out Person B’s profile and see comments left on a Server A community, but they cannot navigate to the post itself because Server A would not send the content to their server.
It’s relatively easy to switch servers, by clicking the little rainbow icon next to a particular comment to see the server where it would have been viewed in Person B’s context, but servers on their own are not running around scraping missing data… At least, not as they are currently designed.
ETA: More background on the major defederation in question (mostly political, not technical)
Edge is also pulling in tabs from other browsers unprompted. How convenient.
https://www.theverge.com/24054329/microsoft-edge-automatic-chrome-import-data-feature
Can you be more specific? I might be able to hunt down answers.
Recently, federation vulnerabilities got exploited by an ex-Truth Social employee who apparently believes consent is only when someone shouts “no” at him, so pretty much anything is possible (without even going through the effort of spinning some kind of proxy server, if I’m reading this correctly).
There’s pretty much no reason this has to be done on the cloud. For one example, just download a tab tree sidebar for Firefox. Either the stuff you see in it will be managed by the browser itself, or by something as simple as an extension.
Even calling this feature AI seems rather disingenuous on the part of Microsoft. It looks more like a way to grab data about you and about non-consenting websites…
It was the time of each of the downvotes. I’m pretty sure the behavior was done by a bot, because there were way more downvotes across a bunch of unrelated posts.
I have way more data than my own, and there’s a few users I’ve identified who appear to be botting other users aggressively. Not sure where to drop that data set, but it’ll be funny.
A widely used meme and crypto bros
https://twitter.com/FortuneMagazine/status/1420803860336152577/
It all depends on context, but as one example this guy
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(aka Poggers) is part of Twitch chat culture.
And Twitch doesn’t slouch on extremist content. They banned this emote
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because the guy who made that face was supporting Jan 6.
That’s an interesting point. One company, like Reddit, might see human beings as nothing more than content mills, but that created incentives to be a little private at least.
Lemmy servers are run by anybody, including Facebook, and you don’t even have to accept someone else’s server rules for your data to transfer onto it. The process occurs passively.
I can’t answer your question about the votes, but posts and comments are retained when you hit the delete button. The only way to delete them is to edit the content beforehand. I believe moderators are capable of restoring posts, but I haven’t checked the comments yet.
There’s no reason where this has to be the behavior by default; federation alone is a challenge but not an excuse. Ironically, when it comes to privacy, a company like Reddit (with sketchy privacy policies) might be better than Lemmy (a series of entities in a variety of jurisdictions where your data is protected by the weakest of all of their privacy policies)
“A privacy focused phone plan.”
refuses to elaborate
I have, however, noted they are selling a $170, 3 year old Pixel 5 for $400, so at least they have the price points of “privacy focused services” down perfectly.
PS the Pixel 5 is not being updated by Google anymore, which means that the Murena phone is either a paperweight, insecure, or Murena is maintaining it themselves.
“Less waste, more savings”
Wrong and wrong. Incredible.
The price isn’t unheard of, but it’s got plenty of competition. A few competitors from AlternativeTo:
* Mozilla is selling a repackaged version of OneRep, charging more per year but a little less per month
Mozilla also has at least one product in their toolbelt that gives them the ability to resell private data to ad brokers, and it’s managed by the same DPO as other Mozilla products…
I wonder… If you sign up for this service, will Mozilla opt you out of these sales?