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The ONLY data Signal stores about you is your phone number, most recent registration time/date and most recent login time/date. They don’t know who you’re messaging or when you’re messaging them AFAIK.

You can see this for yourself at signal.org/bigbrother


How do VPNs operate legally?
ISPs get legal notices from companies and are liable if it is found that their users are downloading illegal torrents and they don't take action against those users. How are VPNs any different? By using a VPN, aren't you essentially transferring your accountability to the VPN provider? Wouldn't courts find that since this or that VPN service's exit server was used in ____ illegal online activity, they're responsible and must cease operations? How do VPNs operate? Are laws different for them? If yes, then how does that benefit the state? Wouldn't the state benefit from treating VPNs the same as ISPs so they get more control?
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Just FYI, in India the president (head of the state) is more or less a ceremonial figure. It’s the prime minister (head of the government) that you’re probably talking about.


There’s Revolt (FOSS, functionally the same as Discord but it’s centralised) and Matrix (FOSS and decentralised but it’s somewhat functionally different than discord). Both have their pros and cons. You can look into them.


A good, privacy respecting and FOSS PDF viewer for Android?
Currently, I'm just using the default 'Drive PDF Viewer' on my Android devices, would love to switch to something FOSS and non-google. Any good recommendations? If it's available on F-Droid, that would be preferable.
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The recent advent of governments worldwide trying to force corporations to build backdoors into their services for the ‘safety of children’ or to ‘counter terrorism’ arguably does more harm than good for the common people.


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Well, that’s essentially what it boils down to. Now it’s up to users to decide based on their respective threat models whether they wanna use Ecosia or not.


Ecosia always sent user data to Microsoft (Bing), it’s just that they will also be pulling search results from Google now so now they’re contractually bound to send some data to Google as well.

The point is that it never was for extremely privacy minded folks, it’s ofcourse a better choice than using Google or Bing directly because you’re atleast not getting profiled as far as I can tell, but it can only do so much when it is dependent on ad revenue and has to work with Bing and Google for search results.

I’m not a privacy expert and this is just my opinion as a fellow Ecosia user, so take this with a grain of salt.


I ditched Chrome about a year ago for Edge and just recently switched to Firefox, shouldn’t really be concerning as long as there are alternatives.