Trying to migrate off of stealth for Reddit so I can stop feeling guilty that I’m still technically using reddit
Issue with this argument is that if you are found to have hacked their servers and stolen an API key you bet your ass theyre suing you for stealing their property. Their argument is “laws for thee not for me”. I agree with you if we are only talking about copyright law.
Theres an extension you can manually install that will automatically install extensions now. its pretty cool
If I were you and needed to use a chromium based browser, I would go for brave with maximum privacy settings turned on and all the Crypto shit and brave “features” turned off. Ungoogled chromium is a good project but its not as refined as Brave is. See here: https://privacytests.org/
If I were you I’d go for Librewolf or Mullvad browser if you dont need Chromium. The reason people say this is because Google has a sort of monopoly on the browser space right now as Chromium takes up Almost 80% of the marketshare, meaning that Google will ultimately get to decide what features live, and what features die. If Chromium market share was down at 40% or so, it wouldnt matter if you used Brave or not, but thats the reality we live in.
pay to become products* FTFY
I wish. no in school suspension
I would assume ISS, then regular suspension, then expulsion
People shit on Ubuntu because its owned by a for profit corporation that hosts an app manager that isnt open source on the backend. Not sure why you heard hate for mint, its perfectly fine. As a beginner I’d definitely go for Mint. If you Genuinely want to try but feel like you need someone to hold your hand, I can add you on Matrix (or discord… ugh) if you want a person to reference.
My old HS recently implemented an app to go to the bathroom. If you dont check out in the app you are written up. Source: my younger brother
Stop with the what-aboutisms because this is not the current situation.
And then no one will use Signal because there is no way someone won’t notice immediately. It is OPEN SOURCE. Look at the xz backdoor that got figured out in less than a day. Signal is more popular than a Linux tool for extracting files. Stupid statement.
Doesnt change the fact that Matrix is not a single company.
No, it isnt. Telegram is not E2EE even though they claim they are a private messenger.
The fuck does that even mean?
Oh youre on a DIFFERENT HOMESERVER than ME?
Literal brainlet behavior. “I am the chad and you are the little virgin soyjack and little virgin soyjack is on lemmy.ml”
This is a very bad faith argument. It relies on assuming that “western government bad” without any basis of statement as to WHY youre claiming this. Would you say Twitter is good for privacy too then? It fits the same argument. The western governments are currently Trying to shut it down, the EU has threatened to shut off access completely. Is Twitter good for privacy because the western governments are trying to shut it down? No. Twitter is absolutely awful for privacy. On the same card, so is telegram. Telegram can not be publically audited. Their backend is closed source. You dont know what theyre doing with your data. For all you know, they took your phone number and sold it to a bail bondsman for when they see you talking about doing crimes on their platform. They could’ve sold any data you gave to them to anyone and you wouldnt be able to prove it because theres no way for you to personally audit them. You know what you can audit? Signal, XMPP, Matrix, fuck you could even audit OpenPGP over email. The argument you put fourth is completely bad faith and is full of holes.
Just because their technical backend let’s them?
Yes. They can VERY CLEARLY SEE that the platform is being misused. Signal can’t. Signal is genuinely clueless as to what you do on their platform. If you’re going to promote your service as “privacy respecting” and not mean it, you better count on any world government getting on your ass for not taking down CSAM material. The difference between being ignorant and being irresponsible is ignoring the issue after you’ve been made aware of it.
Terrible take, as as much as I hate to admit it, Meta doesnt have a “Monopoly”. An Oligopoly can be argued, but there are clear alternatives for all 4 of their big apps that are mainstream and used by millions. Signal, Telegram, Snapchat, Tiktok, Discord, Tumblr, Pinterest, the list can go on and on… Not to mention if we’re looking to “break a monopoly” we shouldnt be going to closed source bullshit to let someone else come in and make another monopoly. We know nothing of Telegrams back end. At least Signal has theirs open source.
Yeah I did, Ive been up a bit too long. I would think anyone on telegram doing piracy would move to signal, XMPP or matrix at this point though. (that is granted, there is still thousands of redditors just doing it out in the open so, maybe not)
If you turn off the telemetry like I said in my comment that no longer becomes an issue. In terms of blocking your digital fingerprint Brave is going to be better than every popular Chromium based browser. See the link I posted in the original comment.