PlayStore description says:

Android Developer Verification is a Google system service that protects users on certified Android devices by validating the identity of developers for apps installed from the internet. By ensuring every app is linked to a verified developer, this service provides an essential layer of security for your device.

This is likely part of Google’s attempt to close down Android and strengthen its monopoly and data harvesting mania.

“Alexa, pls stop spying on me. Ok? Thx.”

Well then I am glad that it got most of it wrong. I don’t even put thaat much emphasis on fingerprinting countermeasures. Apparently, using Firefox in a private tab is enough.

As if we need more lessons in how cautious we should be with what we’re putting on the internet. What has been true 20 years ago hasn’t changed.

https://snapcraft.io/calaboka

The billionaire tech class was created by the Internet

No. You had tech billionaires before the internet as well.

For dipping your toes into a new topic I think it’s perfectly fine. It helps to provide useful pointers for further “research” (in a sense that would meet your requirement) and also manages to provide mostly accurate overviews. But sure, to really dive into this, LLMs like ChatGPT and co. are just some low-level assistants at best and one should go through the material themselves.

Perplexity does a good job as LLM-search-engine-combo.

dO yoU hAVe sOMeTHinG tO hIDe?

That’s why we need strong fucking privacy laws.

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*global IT outage shows dangers of monopolies.