Yeah, well, they couldn’t “shut it down” before E2E encryption, either, so, obviously, the problem isn’t necessarily the encryption, but that the cops suck at their jobs.

“We couldn’t really catch them before, but now we can’t real their text messages! Merde!”

Stop blaming encryption, and do a better job.

Another benefit to this is that the USB port goes into a restricted mode that only allows for charging, and you can still use your cameras to record while it’s in this mode.

I have been for years. It was a massive improvement when I deleted my Facebook account.

Ad Guard works for me

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Still works with ExpressVPN

Also works with Apple Private Relay

Edit: tested while logged out

The rest are designing/coding/testing the ads and work for ad companies.

I’m pretty sure they just decided.

And how long until this app gets tied to several mass shootings and a spate of burning crosses?

When the MPAA stops lobbying Congress

I wish I were on the drugs you are to find the reason in the obviously logically flawed and contradictory madness you keep making of this.

But if you need to keep telling yourself that espionage is OK just because some governments engage in some forms of mass surveillance, then I can’t stop you from making a fool of yourself by saying so. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I still think that both are bad, and I still find it pretty easy to argue both points without conflating the two logically fallaciously.

Thing is, even if we don’t agree, I think you could do better arguing either or both points without conflating the two. And I think you’d be more convincing, if you didn’t rely on conflating them. That’s what I’m trying to say, is that you’re not really wrong on one point, the other is logically fallacious, but that you’re wrong for trying to say that they’re related.

You’re the only one who mentioned Edward Snowden

Using paranoia to justify a logical fallacy - and espionage - isn’t a very good argument.

False equivalence is false— but, sure, anything to make espionage seem OK

WE VALUE YOUR PRIVACY!*

^{*no we don’t. not even a little.}

TL;DR: Settings > Face ID & Passcode > Stolen Device Protection Toggle ON

Yeah, I got an alert in my email last night about this. Now I have to go through a massive password reset. Fun!

They say they use it to sync up your watch history to your account so it can sync across devices, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they were selling your watch telemetry to advertisers as well.