Do new torrents bypass this somehow, or is it just by sheer volume and popularity ?

Better than 0 nodes, and this is not counting that they already attacked 3.

You’d be surprised how terrible politician priorities are

If you’re using something like tor, and rotate on every single search, then that would be ideal.

I assume you’re not using tor. That means all your searches can still be linked to you via the network source (ip address, etc.). Google can also use your search patterns to fingerprint you.

It may be one of the better solutions, but there are certainly privacy implications

Its best to use a protocol that doesn’t allow unencrypted messages

This is an implementation thing and not a protocol thing. What protocol doesn’t allow unencrypted messages? I am sure signal’s protocol would still allow it, it’s just that the implementation doesn’t.

And same for XMPP. Just go with the implementation that doesn’t.

Unless you pay from the exchange’s wallet

Sounds like clickbait

So what is the benefit for the common person, now?

It uses the arkenfox thingie. It doesn’t block JS, but it does block a lot of things and possibly certain JS features.

Doesn’t work on Mull browser (hardened Firefox for android) :(

I’m aware of tails, but I am not confident it qualifies. With Tails, I still connect through my own Internet connection, presumably. I know using tor obfuscates this, but is it to the degree of, say, Monero?

Moreover, I am still at the mercy of the platform I use. Most of them require email or phone verification, and creating an account with lots of data sent over from the clients.

Tails is a necessary component, but the platform is also important.

Move account to another unethical, profit driven bank or?

Y’all still believe in the illusion of choice / opt-out in capitalism.

Its increasingly difficult to block 100% of possible ads, but good luck

Are there matrix clients that do this? Only fetch messages from server when needed and not store locally?

It is not privacy minded unfortunately. No major smartphone brand has privacy.

It works even if steam is installed through my system package manager rather than flatpak, which I find even more puzzling.

I suppose steam is installing something alongside it that bottles is using. Can’t figure out what it is.

I don’t think this should have to do with it, as I run the game outside of steam in bottles. I am running a GOG copy.

I checked the logs by running bottles from terminal (is that what you meant?)

I didn’t see anything out or the ordinary.

I mentioned gentoo but I think it shouldn’t matter as I installed bottles using flatpak, so I assume it should have everything it needs. But gentoo does install a very minimal base OS.

That’s the attitude I was talking about 😄

People in Reddit and sometimes here always praise the EU as some bastion of privacy, and I always got downvoted when I said that this isn’t always true. And now here we are. I hope people don’t forget this after a month, like they always do.

The code is not open source, so it’s hard to verify how good the encryption is or if it has backdoors.

I’m not an expert in cryptography, but from my limited knowledge, the cryptographic keys used are very important. If Meta or the government can somehow know the decryption key to your messages or predict it, then they can see your messages.

But they most likely don’t need to decrypt it in transit. One of the vulnerabilities in this system is Google firebase, which delivers notifications to your phone when WhatsApp messages arrive. Ever noticed how those notifications include the message content and the sender? Google has access to this information, despite the encryption.

That’s just an example. Google has access to a lot on your phone.

Another thing to consider is message metadata. The content of your message is encrypted, but what about information like the destination of your message, its recipients, time sent and received, and frequency? I’d even argue this is more important than content in many situations. Sometimes, linking person A to person B tells me a lot about person A.

Then you’d be wrong, because voting is futile and a distraction, as I already said. Refer to the rest my comment for direct action methods that aren’t futile:

unionizing, striking, protesting, blocking traffic to our stores, boycotting

Quite the opposite, actually. Corporations love for you to be distracted with the methods that are futile. Don’t you ever think about unionizing, striking, protesting, blocking traffic to our stores, boycotting, or any of that. Just do the things that don’t hurt our profits!

Unions, sure.

Voting and calling representatives is a futile approach. They’re a distraction at best. Unions are an example of what I mean by uniting our efforts and taking action.

I gave up on voting when I realized the last however many times I did it changed nothing. I want a real solution, not a distraction.

I wired it in to eliminate Bluetooth issues. Resident evil on steam works. Arch wiki has a lot of stuff but I couldn’t find anything about this.

what if I regret installing the thing and want to remove it? is it easy or would I be having to track files down?

My issue with lutris is that when I used it before and something didn’t work, or used to work but broke, I was completely at a loss, because I did not understand what all it is doing exactly. It just felt that what lutris is doing is a bit too obfuscated or unclear to me.

Is bottles any better on that front?

Storage-wise they’re there, but they never run or take up memory? Is this correct?

a long history of human rights abuses, persecution of minorities and espionage

Hmm, I wonder which countries this applies to… It’s crazy how you missed the irony of this

And your data will become a weapon in the event of a world war 3.

Dude… You’re living in some video game fantasy world. Your activity browsing social media and watching over-confident youtubers will not give China an edge in world war 3. I guarantee you.

On Calyx, most android apps require Google services. How do you address this? Calyx’s solution for this is providing microG, a stripped down Google services. Still, they’re Google services…

“the enemy you know” to be in the same geography as you and be capable to use the data against you, yes.

With the other enemy, you know your data in their hands is a much less of a threat to you. They’re so far away and do not have authority on your country.

And btw, Google is never gone for good. Not even with Calyx

Doesn’t Google record this info already?

Yeah get a phone that’s monitored by entities in your own country and can actually use it against you instead of the ones halfway across the planet. That’s the intelligent move.

apple has increasing ad revenue, but they don’t sell it? Makes total sense if you’re a moron. thankfully I’m not.

https://sneak.berlin/20230115/macos-scans-your-local-files-now/

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-fbi-icloud-exclusive/exclusive-apple-dropped-plan-for-encrypting-backups-after-fbi-complained-sources-idUSKBN1ZK1CT

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1330127/apple-ad-revenue-worldwide/

https://gizmodo.com/apple-iphone-analytics-tracking-even-when-off-app-store-1849757558

I asked you to check the web to double check me, you still chose to embarrass yourself.

Here’s proof that Samsung supports devices for 5 years. Do you want me to spoon feed you the rest?

Proof that they’re an exception to every other competitor?

Proof?

Again, android is cheap and worse

I just explained to you why that is false. Please do not restate your debunked statement prepended with “Again,” itdoes not make it any less wrong.

As for updates, phones from Google, oneplus, Samsung all get 5 years of official updates. Even oppo will give 4 years. You can double check me by searching the web on this.