If you have terabytes of data in iCloud, use their mail, contacts, photos, everything? Plus decades of purchased content, expensive devices losing functionality by dropping the iPhone… you have to basically replace everything with something else and it’s tedious especially for a less techy person. This is the reason walled gardens are anti consumer.

I think for most privacy nuts it comes down to “I don’t trust them and it’s closed source. They could be hiding anything in that code.”

And then there’s the people who can’t afford or won’t spend the money it takes to have an enjoyable Apple experience. It genuinely costs multiple thousands of dollars to get into the Apple ecosystem and then it’s massively painful to get out. It’s basically just “corporation bad” because corporations are bad. The only way to be truly private is to not carry a phone at all and use only FOSS solutions.

Where’s the interview with the liberal reporter, lol?

This is also just a few days after Durov published Nazi dogwhistles in the latest Telegram update blog post.

https://plush.city/@PsyChuan/112336464469767051

Some very good fixes here

I don’t even really see this as an issue now personally. I guess it’s the principle of the thing.

Just because the EU is involved doesn’t make it any different. This is like how Target is leaving Seattle because the city decriminalized shoplifting. The whole point is to punish the people in the place with laws they don’t like.

It’s linked to the same thing though. Investor pressure to produce a profit or sink. It’s the service getting worse. And Facebook wrote the book on enshittification- think 2006 Facebook.

It’s just more enshittification

This is it. This is how these companies think.

Don’t engage with this person, you will lose the argument because nothing you say will convince them. Stop worrying about rich corpos getting rinsed and start worrying about policy that would address the cause of crimes like these.

You should be mad about the things google does. I don’t think this particular thing is unreasonable though.

Thanks for sharing this. I might cancel my subscription if things don’t improve then.

That’s concerning, but so far so good with PIA

Personally for me all three. They offer OVPN profiles to connect even without using their software and their privacy policy includes a “no logs” clause

I use PIA in spite of this because their excellent privacy policy has not changed since this purchase. If their policy changes I will drop them like a bad habit.

While the fault may be mine for my assumption, it’s also good to analyze why someone might construe your comment in that way. Have a nice day!

Your perspective stated above doesn’t align with my idea of someone who would be politically active. I’m glad you are fighting the good fight instead of simply participating in slacktivism, and I wasn’t trying to imply that you personally did nothing. I’m implying that your stated perspective above discourages action by instilling a sense of hopelessness.

I am also politically active although not to the degree you are; I participate in protests and mutual aid as well as other smaller forms of political activism. I do as much as I can given my mental health, which is an ever increasing amount as I grow and heal.

If you are participating in politics, you should know that perspective and optics are massively important. Saying “we’re all doomed and there’s no point!” can be harmful, actually. Maybe it helps motivate you, but for most people it’s disheartening.

You threw out the baby with the bathwater here… they’re saying you can be hopeful while still facing reality. Hopelessness like this is useless. Woe is me, let’s do nothing. Worthless perspective tbqh

Nuance status: out the window