they won’t sell it or lets 3rd parties come even remotely close to it

If they secretly let the government double dip, I don’t think I want to trust any other claims they and their marketing makes.

Apple admits to secretly giving governments push notification data - Ars Technica

What are the odds that Google also claims it doesn’t sell your data, it “shares” it.

But would you trust them?

Apple admits to secretly giving governments push notification data - Ars Technica

There are a lot things that are hidden to public, until they are accidentally revealed, and then they are FORCED to admit it. They have many many layers of obscurity where some parts being secure relies upon and could have intentional backdoors.

Take a look at article above, you could have the most “secure™” app, OS and protocols but if the company running the OS is funneling data to the government, your cult like loyalty doesn’t mean shit.

They’ll never admit to anything and can just call everything else an inadvertent bug. And people will eat it up, and the cult will defend it like their personality depends on it.

You’ll probably blow it off as a conspiracy theory or “apple bad” or whatever else but if you’ve kept up with cyber security, government leaks and developments in surveillance technology, this is how spying works.

A harmless traffic camera becomes a surveillance terminal. If you still choose to believe it’s still just a traffic camera, you do you.

First off: $160 a year for education (about $13 a month) is a steal. I’m not sure why this needs to exist.

First off, It being a “steal” for you is not same for everyone els

Second, not everyone around the world can pay for these. Payment processors, their monopoly and shenanigans aside, paying online is not a universal thing and we should stop treating it like it is.

I fully agree with the slop arguments.

This is great. I had been using faststream before but it got removed and it also had problems with sites that used Anubis as (i think) it wasn’t using the same browser session and creating a new request, which was blocked.

https://github.com/Andrews54757/FastStream

I tried your extension on redlib and while it grabbed the hls video url, it listed too many in the downloader UI. It probably needs a cleanup.

Thanks!

I’m not defending RMS

Even of he was a pedophile, RMS is not your responsibility

You’re brain is likely pickled more than the person you’re responding to with that word salad.

I know your brain is probably pickled from the internet

You call someone out on picking on Stallman unprompted as virtue signalling, but you don’t recognize when you preface with your own virtue signalling, do you?

Making something important in the past doesn’t make them a saint for their entire life and taking back things you say on the internet is a lot more easier than nonchalantly saying bullshit in real life, from the moment you write it, edit it to the time you press post.

So yes, imo, you’re trying to defend RMS statements. Defending and trying to do damage control for someone else’s problematic statements like this on the internet is fucking cringe.

But i hope he sees this, man. 👌

Trakt acquired Showly. I don’t know if the original dev is still involved, but I expect things to change.

https://github.com/trakt/showly

A19 year old with Claude subscription replaced you. Get over it.

I’m not 100% negative about AI for research, but I don’t think you’ve thought this through.

Check the username of the poster.

If they put cameras in your bathroom and you are not aware, your privacy wasn’t violated.

There’s a reason they own all the major operating systems, messaging apps, social media platforms, cloud infrastructure and spy agencies.

There’s always going to be some deliberate loopholes and exploits in or between the supply-chain to get to you when you’re inside their ecosystem.

But some companies promise you’re “secure” and “private” if you use one of their expensive, shiny offerings. They swear it on their marketing, ads and PR releases.

It’s that comfy feels of paying more for a false sense of privacy and security that matters.

tldr; Use Linux and open source.

If anything being in third world countries would let you get away from trouble. That’s why most criminals escape to them and piracy is the norm.

What would keep a first worlder hobbyist safe from these troubles?

This is a rage bait headline.

Yes, it is.

The claim that this is somehow different from any other use

You never have control over what the person at the other end of a conversation does

encryption was never meant to address that

I wonder why Apple stans never bring this up when calling it the most private operating system that “cares” about user “privacy” and “security” when they can just hand over your E2EE messages after it’s decrypted, if a company has a “plugin”.

Convenient, isn’t it?

And if Apple has a plugin for OpenAI, think of what “plugins” the government has behind closed doors.

But stans never stop repeating the same “encryption”, “privacy”, “security” talking points when defending it.

“When we steal, it’s groundbreaking innovation, when others steal, it’s a threat on humanity.”

Did you try checking while using data on your phone?

Using different network might give varying results.

Beeper which runs over Matrix (with bridges) has been pretty good and straightforward.

It’s setup like a chat app rather than a slack/discord lookalike so its easier for usual folks to get used to.

Fun fact: VLC still supports Android 4.2 (Nov, 2012) which i use to play local media on my old tablet(4.4) through f-droid. Works well with old formats.

On PC, I use MPV because I’ve gotten used to its command line and shortcuts.

Okay, buy the thing to take note here is what tech companies can hide.

You know they’re tracking users but there are still things we’ll never find out unless they reveal it themselves or are made to reveal in indirectly.

It seems someone re-registered the expired domain and turned it into whatever it is today.

https://whois.domaintools.com/cambridgeanalytica.org

• 299 days old
• Created on: 2025-09-05
• Expires on: 2026-09-05

Screenshots show it has “wifi only” setting. Maybe it could do with a “Only when charging” setting too.

They seem to know that the market for privacy is more than people who want just want their private data safe. There are also people that use these services for controversial and or illegal shit. So they use these chuds and reach those spaces.

It’s the swiss business model. A lot of controversial and corrupted people, politicians hide their money in privacy oriented banks offshore. They make profits no matter where the money comes from.

A little bad press after the stuff is out doesn’t really matter all that much if that drives more profits. The backlash might even get them more exposure.

They apologize and say they’ll never do it again and everyone moves on.

Signal doesn’t run in a vacuum. It’s main distribution platforms are app stores from Google and Apple. And most people are going to use stock smartphones from these two companies to sign up to Signal. But with them being under the same US jurisdiction, matching the two identities isn’t that far-fetched.

The parent companies of both OS platforms are well known to funnel data and notifications to the US government. It too had no evidence to support it, until they admitted it. There’s a setting for it now, but the person you’re talking to might not be doing the same, so it’s still out for profiling.

Other thing, they vehemently oppose F-Droid because “f-droid security flaws” bs, even though they can literally host their own repo for it without anyone else building their app. They would control every aspect of supply chain, but they didn’t.

Besides that, they make it very inconvenient to get it from elsewhere, even though they did the bare minimum to provide a standalone installer, after an outcry. And with those stripped down installers, you have to deal with inconsistent notifications, because no apple/google. And they never ever gave unified push a look. I wonder why? Are they a small indie company with just a couple of devs?

Signal protocol may be “secure”, but it’s only a part of a bigger picture.

It’s forced reliance on phone numbers, privacy averted platforms and unwillingness to work with opensource platforms and standards that lets it become decentralized and out of the hands of authoritarian government, leaves a lot to be desired.

Facebook’s whatsapp also uses the signal protocol, but would you call it private or secure after all that zuck has shown to do? Signal creator literally helped them implement it too. I wouldn’t touch a Facebook product with a 10 feet pole.

And now he’s helping them again encrypt Meta AI, whatever that means. Why is he working with one of the worst offenders of privacy?

If that doesn’t tell you these things are concerning, you do you.

https://lemmy.ml/post/48427945