Ok, they are getting down votes, but technically true?Yes they reinstated it, but they assume guilt rather than check first?

I assume that they have a level of trust in the reporter, that hopefully they will not extend next time. I guess they must get a lot of these, and that failing to block spammers means they may lose trust of other email servers?

Partially, it’s because the incumbent platforms are just much better… Discord is really good.

I have got some people to move to signal though. I don’t touch Facebook messenger.

Unpopular opinion (here anyway):

Google timeline is really useful! Let’s you know where you where when you need to know. Have used it, or told people to use it multiple times when someone needs to know when/how long they have been out of the country, or when they moved house etc.

They made a change recently so that it’s all local or something? Not sure how that works.

Having home, work and other key locations set in Google maps is also… Really useful.

Yeh, but it’s available through your instance even though it’s hosted there…

Unsure how that is meant to work legally.

FYI - This article is from 2020.

I know they did some stuff semi-recently about the security of direct calls. So there is a high chance this is have changed since then.

Yeh, not like they can’t work it out.

(That said, they have no idea about my house number because I can’t get them to understand the building I’m in has multiple houses in it…)

It depends who you are trying to hide from. A VPN will hide your internet traffic from your ISP/phone company, but obviously not from the site you are visiting.

At best you might be one of may people connecting from the same (VPN) IP address, but they can still collect info from your browser/app etc to generate points to ID you if they want.

That’s a very interesting site, thank you!

It looks like the screen size is the most identifying info for me, followed by the webGL hash. Not much can be done about those on mobile right?

You have to be pretty close to sniff Bluetooth data though. So fine at home, less so in a busy public space. (The chances of someone there trying to hack your Bluetooth is still astranomically small)

… I assume they have both the phone and laptop with them when they are away from home?

In that case, the entire windows ecosystem collapses when Microsoft messes up windows defender… at least if its spread out it hurts less people