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dontvisitmyintentions wrote

Proton is the end of a long-overdue overhaul of the UI to fit with the modular, quicker backend, if I understand it correctly. The addon API was more painful but similar. Both should have happened a long time ago, and would have saved countless developer time spent on the old codebase.

They could have done it all at once with a full experimental browser again, which is what Phoenix originally was. But that doesn't fit with the branding and telemetry obsession Mozilla has.

It's not as bad as they make it out.

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Wahaha wrote

Isn't it because Firefox is made by Mozilla who is paid by Google who created their very own spyware Chromium and has an interest since then to slowly strangle the life out of Firefox?

It all started around 2011 and all the decisions since then cannot be explained away with coincidence or mere incompetence.

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Rambler wrote

To be fair, if you're the type of person who may draw any amount of attention to yourself then it's really up to you to use the tools made available to you to keep yourself private.

Sounds like they didn't utilize the onion service. Sounds like they didn't do enough on their own to protect themselves.

While I know this looks bad for ProtonMail, the reality is that service providers aren't investigative units and can only share what information you give them to share when given a lawful order to do so.

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Onetwofree wrote

If you don't like the ad scripts move to LBRY desktop app. Odysee has a sustainable business model but if you want control of your content and you don't want to be tracked use the desktop app and Peertube isn't sustainable because it has no business model behind it expect tips but LBRY has LBC. Also LBRY Desktop app is open source and more stable than Odysee.

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dontvisitmyintentions wrote

It's believable, because Vimeo always leaned lefty.

But were they paid members? Did the membership lapse, making some unavailable? Do the missing videos say they were removed for any particular reason?

I don't see any posts on covid19criticalcare.com from the 10th, and the 11th ones don't look related. Do you have a link to their post or to the posts with missing videos?

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AWiggerInTime wrote (edited )

Reply to comment by sgji2p in Don't Use Telegram. by Hitler_Was_Right

use some random free XMPP Server to register at

Any recommendations? It turns out that it's hard to find a server with open registration which is fairly stable and keeps history.

And the client is smooth and simple.

We call it simple, others call it spartan. If XMPP won't work then try Matrix, the bridge argument usually works.

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toggin wrote

Not sure who relied on apple for privacy in the first place, if you want privacy you simply have to go with open source, mainly for two big reasons :

  1. You have no real way of actually knowing for sure that the OS isn't backdoored
  2. The company responsible for programming that operating system can change their stance on privacy at any time, like apple is doing here.

Personally, i would never, ever lay trust on a closed source application or system for privacy, it's just asking to get fucked in the ass. if you wanna do private shit, use open source software exclusively for that, no exceptions imo.

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Wingless wrote

I posted the same shit and got two upvotes. Somebody posts under "Hitler was right" and thinks it only stops on the race angle, and they get 4? This kind of shit is why I never believed in upvotes. The only posts I was ever proud of on Reddit were the ones that got -50 or better.

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Wingless wrote

The ultrasound isn't nominally designed to harm hearing - the point they have for including it is spyware monitoring of "air gapped" devices. They seem to have turned it down a little - I remember ten years ago the ultrasound from my old computer was severe enough I could hear if a game of Dwarf Fortress had paused itself (a stupid thing it loves to do) despite it having sound disabled, the speaker muted, and the display window completely minimized out of sight. Well, either they turned it down or my ability to hear ultrasound is waning, but I still hear it when bringing the computer out of hibernation - it just seems more focused on transmitting some ID code and finishing. I assume it's part of the OS, or at least, I never found a visible sign of it.

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yk4v2 wrote (edited )

The firms, which include Twitter (TWTR.N) and Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) YouTube, share "hashes," unique numerical representations of original pieces of content that have been removed from their services. Other platforms use these to identify the same content on their own sites in order to review or remove it.

I can think of one way to get around this but it has some downsides for privacy so I think it should be used carefully and only when necessary.

You can open up a picture with Notepad++ or another text editor and add whatever text you want so that the hash will be different and not match what's in their database. You could even add a hidden message if you want. You could add hidden messages to other files too using steganography techniques and that would change the hash.

The downside is that now the file is more traceable. So lets say someone posts some meme about vaccines on poal but they edit it to include the text "Death to all jews" when you open it in notepad. Someone else saves it and shares it on Facebook without knowing about the hidden text. Now if this system is set up to track image hashes across platforms, the feds know that the facebook user either got that image from poal or got it from someone else who got it from there. The exact same picture could be on lots of other platforms but they would know from the hash where this particular user got it from.

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