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      Well, I do oppose this kind of behaviour, but I also want to use a system that fits my needs.

      So what should I do? Making more people aware of issues is often the best we can realistically hope for.

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          Okay, first of all: Chill, and let me lay out an observation here.

          You are very passionate about that topic, maybe a little too much. The way you talk about it is too heated, and gives people the idea that a civil discussion might not be possible.

          The fact that you immediately start conspiring about where your downvotes come from doesn’t make it any better.

          Now, the issues you describe are very much real, and a problem. There are merits and downfalls in each project, each one handles these differently, and it is for us to decide how to react to that.

          So, you’re saying that as a reaction, I should neither use Graphene nor DivestOS, am I understanding this correctly?

          What then? Compromise my privacy by using less optimal systems? Why would I do that?

          Doing things out of principle vs doing them out of practical use is something this community is quite aware of, isn’t it. Sometimes the decision isn’t easy, sometimes it is.

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              FOSS/privacy community

              These are not the same community. The actual free software community has been a thing for 40 years, and the privacy/security people spend as much time attacking free software as they do big tech. I’ve come to believe no security or privacy guy is trustworthy in the free software space. Reject Rossman, return to Stallman.

              edit: security guys will say “free software isn’t always more secure!” and privacy guys will say “freedom, what is this freedom? it has no internet access, that’s the only thing that matters!” and meanwhile stuff like WEI is being implemented, that we’ve been warning about for the last 40 years. The security and privacy guys will say you don’t need freedom, just the “best tool for the job” - Chrome was the best browser when it came out, now it’s being used to subjugate the free web. WEI is the end result of treating freedom as a second thought behind security.

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              I don’t think graphememe is all that great either I tried it once a few yrs back and hardly any apps worked that I need and everything was slow af.