mishimaenjoyer

he can’t win this, can’t he?

“i want to buy this.”
“NOOO, YOU CAN’T DO THAT!”
“ok, i won’t buy it.”
“NOOO, NOW YOU HAVE TO!”
“ok, i bought it.”
“WE WILL NOW INVESTIGATE YOU!”

one does not have to like him to see the pattern behind this, just like the farce with investigating spacex for “discrimination” for not hiring migrants and foreigners even tho the law explicitly forbids the company to do so because of national security concerns.

/b/ (or /pol/) exploiting a loophole in a webservice for teh lulz, more news at 11.

“glasshole” all over again - guess it’s too long already since google flopped with this.

move out of the city, away from any night light and then just ignore the occasional ring of dots that takes up like 0.00003% of the night sky for the average stargazer; why does everyone now pretend to be copernicus?

i remember when i was a kid, i was hiking with my parents and we spent a night on about 2500m and looking up i obviously had a great view of the cosmos BUT i also could see some satelites moving and even the then MIR space station. i was impressed that “we” are actually up there for everyone down here to see. i guess the current generation want’s a pristine night sky AND 24/7 internet, gps and tv.

„Now that we’ve established that Apple collects and uses your data to serve ads, does it sell your data too? Turns out the answer is No, Apple doesn’t sell your data to third-party advertisers. The Cupertino giant possesses the exclusive rights of showing you ads on the App Store and other apps. This means your data is used by Apple to show ads, but not sold to any other advertisers.“

https://fossbytes.com/apple-data-collection-explained/

pretty nice stuff, too bad one has to by a certain phone sold by google to take advantage of it.

well, no. the video is not so much about “apple bad” but about cherrypicking and leaving out inconvenient points on both sides to make the message of the video work. no one here (but you) brought that kind of sentiment up.

i have nothing against him and i’m glad snowden did, what he did, but just because he was “in the loop” over a decade ago does not make a recommendation today a big selling point unless for some reason he still has access to the newest nsa tech from his russian exile.

“nearly anonymous on custom ROMs” - you really believe that, don’t you?

that’s great! now tell me how i can install grapheneos on the samsung device i just got because i don’t want to spend more than 200 bucks on a phone?

ps.: don’t bother. the app of my bank is not supported. and it’s a major european one.

so i just browsed through the transcript. the first segment is a political topic about how apple is censoring the appstore on request of the chinese central government from a few years ago and how bad it is, conveniently ignoring that google runs a dedicated, ccp-friendly version of google - https://www.npr.org/2018/08/02/634827587/google-testing-a-censored-search-engine-just-for-china / https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_China

it continues to say that android is not google and can be used without google and that there are alternative appstores and that apple does not have this - conveniently ignoring that there are altstores for jailbroken iphones for around 15 years now, that in the EU sidloading is a must-have feature in the near future (or maybe it’s already there with ios17, i haven’t checked yet), also enabling altstores without jailbreaks. it’s also very common to have the “eternal test flight” to offer apps that are for whatever reason not on the appstore to get installed with a one-link-tip.

continuing, the video goes on about how on android one can just log out of google and not use gapps, even uninstall ist, conveniently ignoring the gigabytes of undeletable bloatware from vendors that keep going on to collect your data. “install graphene os”, like the pixel is the sole android device in existence.

following is an excerpt about how apple defines tracking and that it still has tracking capabilities, even if you disable app tracking, conveniently ignoring that there are several apps like protonvpn that prevents tracking in general. there is also a focus on iapps, pretending that one HAS to use the calender, not mentioning more privacy friendly alternatives. at least encrypted icloud is mentioned, but privacy relay isn’t, also no word about built-in mail aliases.

near the end we get the old “YOU CAN MAKE YOUR OWN ANDROID VERSION”-routine, once more shilling graphene without mentioning that one has to buy an iphone price tagged pixel to install it, not going down that installing a rom is way out of the skillset of karen mcnormie who just got the newest samsung thrown at her by her carrier for signing up another two year extension of her contract. finally, there is a mention of ios opening up in the eu.

TLDR; it’s yet another video trying to sell grapheneos, ignoring that most devices cannot even flash it and basically that a rom maintained by a single guy in india who claims it’s very privacy respecting is better than getting an iphone.

edit: some typos.

yeah, i’m hearing about that for like 10, 11 years now. “android is le based, if you install the rom flavor of the month - let’s just hope you don’t need a banking app, heh”.

iMessages automatically becomes a sms app with every other phone, so everyone with a phone capable of sending and reiciving text is able to contact you. No gatekeeping at all.

i still wait for the day when i can criticize the state of israel and some of it’s policies without getting branded as an antisemite.

„I want people to care more about their privacy so I’m going to give away their data and seriously harming their privacy to tell them that i told them so“ - what kind of mental gymnastics is this?

Add ProtonVPN‘s NetShield to the list. Also blocks trackers.

unironically and without bad intentions saying this: touch grass. what good does maximum privacy when you don’t do anything with it? one major take away for me from caring about privacy was the realization, that i tended to be “terminally online” (given my job needs me to sit in front of a computer during most working hours) and started to live more in the “analogue world”. enjoy reading books again. take your family more out, explore your city, the countryside - and turn your phone off. just pretend it’s 1998 again. good luck & see you out there, space cowboy!

“One thing to note is they also encrypt the e-mail subject, whereas (for example) Proton Mail does not.” - protonmail does encrypt their mails if you send it to another protonmail address, and skiff is doing the exact same thing.

i wouldn’t be so sure about it. apple strongarmed google with jpgxl support and the european union pryed open their eco system, at least for eu citizens. apple currently positioning themselves on the side of privacy advocates would lose this standing (and many customers who switched to iphone because of it). i know, they could sugarcoat this, but i have a little hope left that they will draw a line on at least the most user hostile stuff.