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Yeah, companies have abused that to release buggy, incomplete products faster and only make the software stable and feature complete if they make a good profit.

They got that idea “ask for forgiveness not permission” pushed to them by capitalist extremists for too long. I despise that concept in any context, whether justifying rape or violating privacy or anything else. But I even see it in TV shows these days portrayed as normal. Gross 🤮

Messenger messages are supposedly e2e encrypted, but that doesn’t mean the clients don’t then turn around and give those messages to Meta. The clients do scan the messages and are known to add that information to your advertising profile which is also sold. So, while the messages themselves might be protected in flight, and they may not be shared with Meta in full, they are not private. Also, the meta-information about who you’re contacting is not encrypted, but that’s also the case with most apps, including Signal, as that is difficult to pull off while still being easy for people to find you.

Phone number can be problematic to share in some areas of the world, so it does depend on where you are, but email shouldn’t be an issue in general. So easy to get an additional, private email address and use both at the same time.

I also don’t have most mainstream social media anymore but have noticed a significant drop in people asking for it these days. Might just be my location in a city with a lot of progressive, tech savvy people, though.

I mostly use phone number and/or Signal these days.

No it’s a bit complex. The transmissions are sent constantly at regular intervals and are a very specific size and are then combined later. So it’s not “instant” messaging. It’s closer to email.

I hate that this is turning out to be an issue that the lawyers are just not doing their jobs in multiple court cases across the industry rather than solving the legal issue. I don’t know if it’s ignorance or corruption, but big corporations getting away with stealing from artists is not a new thing. Sad that it’s now come to a point where they can produce so much garbage that it drowns out the work of the original artists. Soon there will be so little content for the LLMs to steal from that everything will be derivative and we’ll end up in a new dark age.

Heliboard works well for me. But SMS is a problem because RCS isn’t very well standardized, so you’re pretty much stuck with only Google Messages on Android. I’ve been trying to instead get as many contacts onto Signal or other secure messaging apps since SMS is so out of date and insecure.

Uggghhh, I bet this means there will be even more people walking around wearing fragrances using the crappy industrial ingredients that give me headaches. They already got into the cosmetic products, now high-end perfumes, too?

I rarely consider anything “too far” unless you’re doing something totally ineffective or duplicating effort, and not talking about redundancy. I think most people who say this are either the people who we need to be secure from or people who are ignorant to the threats. I’m not saying the same threats affect us all, but there’s always a possibility you could become a target through whistleblowing, protest, being attractive, pissing off a random stranger, etc. And usually by the time you are a target, it’s too late. Your information is already out there and it’s difficult to stop broadcasting more with all of the tracking systems in place all over.

It’s often not clinical paranoia that causes people to worry about security and/or privacy, primarily it’s a desire for a minimal amount of privacy, hiding from predators, and/or basic protection from fascist regimes of various strengths that have taken over most governments. Often keeping a little privacy also is the best way to prevent becoming a target in the first place.

Not only that, but every app will constantly appear to be sending messages, so real messages are greatly obfuscated. That’s honestly the real innovative part of the product IMHO.

That’s not what I understood from the post, but could you point to the specifics of what you’re talking about in regards to the identifier being encrypted in transit? It seems the ID is sometimes obfuscated, but that is trivial to remove and not meant for security as mentioned.

Not lock-in in the traditional sense where you’re locked to a particular technology, but effectively lock-in by making a commonly used feature for migration not available for free. This wasn’t discussing uncommon cases like having your own domain in front of a free email service since that’s not then fully free.

The most common use of free email services is to use the service’s domain and if you need to switch, then needing to change your email at tons of different places. I am still stuck on gmail for a couple of accounts because changing the email with those services means creating an entirely new account and thus losing all history, etc. Example is the Shop app. Without forwarding I’d end up having to keep the gmail app on my phone to get notification of new emails which is problematic since those apps come with additional tracking services which is the whole reason for migrating from gmail.

I alias traditional stuff to better, usually drop-in versions of that thing on computers that have the better thing. I often forget which systems have the better thing, so this helps me get the better experience if I was able to install it at some point. For example I alias cat to bat, or top to htop, or dig to drill, etc.

Point seems to be that people are switching from gmail to proton for free email, but it’s going to be even more difficult if Proton becomes like Google turned out since you’ll have to pay to get all the email to your new address while you are transitioning to whatever is next. Instead go to that next thing now before you get “locked in” by having all of your important emails going there. With gmail at least you can forward the emails for free from the places you forget to change your email with at first.

I don’t think the OP is saying to switch to gmail. They’re saying if you think switching from gmail is hard, just wait until you have to pay to forward all of your email if you need to move away from Proton mail if they end up being as bad as Google. They’re saying use something else that’s neither gmail nor proton mail.

“Solved” is a pretty strong word for this even at the time. The fact that it moves back to a half device sized screen means it’s unlikely to be very popular as originally designed.

If they can make the whole device a screen as usual, and have the keyboard fold down and change the screen size to only use the visible half of the screen. Then if the user detaches the keyboard completely the other half would activate and resize the screen to be like usual, that might be better. This would require innovation around how to attach the keyboard and charge it and likely would require at least a small strip of the device at the bottom and/or top to be without screen, but edge to edge screen is overrated and makes phones require a case which means they never get to show off the style anyway. Make the device a little thicker and easier to grip so a case isn’t needed and this concept becomes even more plausible. The other option is to make this an add-on that is a case for the phone with the keyboard attaching to the case rather than the phone itself and having a pass-through USB port to allow for power and connection. But let’s get rid of the horrible cases and make a device that is functional as it is rather than just pretty.

I’m hoping someone will come up with some standard language that deals with the issue until laws are made. Even if it’s not effective currently, it may become effective retroactively once laws catch up. But if you have no mention of it, it might not apply to you properly because it’s likely companies will pressure the laws to be opt out rather than opt in.

There are tons of wallets out there with RF blocking and it’s also very simple to add to an existing wallet using some aluminum foil or similar. As for the phone, you really should always require entering your pin or biometrics authentication before accessing your sensitive data like credit cards in addition to the phone needing to be unlocked. This should be done even with current tech because the scanners that thieves use have had much longer range for a long time. They don’t care about following standards or RF interference laws.

Thunderbird desktop does have telemetry and can be disabled. You can always block it from connecting to those URLs, too, if you want. It shouldn’t affect functionality as far as I know. Android Thunderbird doesn’t have telemetry yet since it’s a continuation of the K9 app. But the help saya they plan to add it as soon as they figure out the best way to allow users to opt out.

I don’t know much about what it’s doing with geotrust, but I assume it’s something to do with certificates for the webapp portions of the application. Probably would need more info to be sure.

And I believe the detectportal URL is for checking for internet access.