Oh they understand. At least in the official proposal that was recently withdrawn by Denmark, political figures where exempt of the encryption breaking procedures.

Massive investments from conservative US lobbies to european think tanks to control politics:

https://thegoodlobby.eu/what-if-us-interest-drives-brussels-most-influential-think-tanks/

Baroness Lloyd, said in the UK House of Lords that “nothing is off the table” when it comes to protecting children online, though she acknowledged there are “no current plans to ban the use of VPNs”.

So there are plans to ban the use of VPNs

The title from the article really shortened Singapore to S’pore. WTF…

Having this info because of legitimate needs to provide a service and a third party processing it with AI without explicit consent for their benefit is a huge difference.

Of course I am referring to info my teammates would know too. Are you inferring that it’s fine that big corporations are profiling you based on what you’re chatting with your friends about?

To all the people in this thread hyping Linux. Please remember that those screenshots capture you as well if you play with windows users. If this becomes a staple and you refuse to be AI fodder, then multiplayer is pretty much dead to you.

In theory this is awesome. Humans aren’t built for menial tasks. All repetitive monotonous tasks should be automated. However, this doesn’t fit our current economic system. Obviously all automation needs to be taxed, so that we don’t have to live this paradox where each technological advancement is a risk to our livelihood.

You can use filen.io, which I like. It’s based in Germany and GDPR compliant.

Their app is on github, so you could use obtainium to manage it: https://github.com/FilenCloudDienste/filen-mobile/releases/tag/v3.0.25

I assume he’s talking about the DNS resolver within the app. Mullvad has a couple options: https://mullvad.net/en/help/dns-over-https-and-dns-over-tls

It works just fine for me btw, even when blocking ads and trackers

I don’t think that vulture needs help doing what’s worst for his constituents

I use XMPP and it’s good. SimpleX is even better at anonymising meta data afaik

Is there a specific reason you’re using an old english / icelandic symbol instead of “th”?

He’s very obviously being facetious. This thread has no chill

Now more than ever people will have to choose between privacy and comfort. And not to be a dick, but now more than ever, people choosing comfort are fucking over people who choose privacy.

I don’t think privacy enthusiasts use vanilla Android. People will stick to Lineage/Graphene for as long as it works and then switch to something like Postmarket. It’s already in a state where it’s rough but usable.

Call me a conspiracy nut job , but I honestly think we live in a new age where it’s the other way around. Megacorps are creating a situation where governments are set up to fail and then swoop in to save the day “alien earth” style, so everyone can be forced into lifetime indentured service.

While I full heartily agree with you, I’m pessimistic you will ever reach enough people with these alternatives. Even on privacy forums you hear people fervently defending how banking apps are mandatory. Those will never run on anything that isn’t locked down. The eID proposal for the EU is also dependent on Android and iOS.

Signal is nice because it has a pretty good adoption rate even with non techies (which is why they’ve been mentioned by name in the chat control proposal). But privacy enthusiasts will still have briar/simplechat/xmpp. Those aren’t centralised like Signal and will be a lot harder to regulate

Doesn’t Signal work with phone numbers? They will probably block every EU number from accessing the service to protect themselves legally. Maybe you could use something like jmp.chat to circumvent that? Probably need a VPN as well to mask your IP. In any case, it will decimate the user base, so you’re left chatting with yourself anyway.