I’m wondering if Dorsey has any stakes in Telegram’s crypto bullshit…

Untrackable might mean you get lumped with the worst actuary table in terms of risk as an unknown quantity or as a form of pressure to let them track you or as a way to create a defence moat of people (your rates will go up like these untrackable vehicles) if the government tries to intervene to stop them from basing rates to tracking.

Try CloudFlare Turnstile - a lot cleaner than recaptcha.

I usually phrase it as “it’s one more app on your phone and it doesn’t ask you for anything, it’s really not that big of an ask”.

Wait, so the family chose to keep two people out of the loop until they caved and bought new hardware instead of adding one more app that would be common for everyone and give everyone the option to use whatever hardware they wanted?

Definitely not bulletproof - but unless they’re after you specifically, and this is the only avenue remaining, the cost of attempting recovery and the risk of alerting you that they are in fact after you, when in the vast majority of circumstances it would yield very little, one would think there’d be cheaper ways to get your data directly from cloud providers or through other, more traditional methods.

Then again I could be naive about this.

Not quite true for phones or anything with SSDs with trim enabled - in most scenarios the data is unrecoverable except for tiny fragments or if you go through some huge effort of pulling the flash chips out and also are lucky, true enough for memory cards or spinning disks though.

Given that Firefox is now faster than Chrome I see no reason to remain.

Installing one more app is not much of an ask. You’re not asking them to abandon the others