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That’s a glowing recommendation of Signal. And a good reminder to donate. I’m doing it right now.
That’s a glowing recommendation of Signal. And a good reminder to donate. I’m doing it right now.
Don’t threaten us with a good time!
Right. This goes for every company, ever. No company is going to do what they should do if it’s not profitable or beneficial to them in some way. It makes sense if you think about it, but that’s also why regulation exists. So that they don’t become too unhinged.
So when the existential threat is made public, it’ll already be in the palm of his hand. Wonderful.
This would only be meaningful if it wasn’t collected in the first place.
No Big Tech company has your best interests in mind. Ever.
Reminder: this is the company that holds a monopoly on the internet and dictates web standards.
I need to understand why people still keep giving that man money. Willingly. It’s mind boggling.
What’s even scarier is that takeout is probably only the data they want you to see, or are legally obliged to share.
I would be willing to wager they have lots more on you that you’re not even aware of.
Serious question: why does everyone in silicon valley have a god complex?
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Fuck Google. Ruining the internet for profit.
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” - Upton Sinclair
Wait, what? A shitty Google product? Plagued by ads and spyware? No way!
As others have pointed out here, use Aurora Store or F-Droid.
I think about this every day, but I keep coming back to this: they do care. It’s just that they don’t always know they care, or to what extent. The big problem is that there’s virtually no way to visualize the harm in using privacy-invading products and services. Everything that goes on in the background of our phones, we’d never tolerate in real life.
If you could visually see every time there’s a background process, an app activating the mic, the sensors, the location, accessing your messages, etc., we’d be in a better position.
There’s no way we’d tolerate the IRL equivalents of what goes on digitally—at the browser level, at the app level, perhaps even at the OS level.
It’s usually visual cues that set off change. Think about it this way: 9/11 killed ~3000 people and we got the USA PATRIOT Act virtually overnight. COVID-19 happened and killed ~1.1 million people in the US alone. But because COVID wasn’t as “visual” and as “graphic” as 9/11, there was less urgency to do something about it.
Burn it all down
Have you also tried using Signal instead of WhatsApp? Sorry, had to do it.