How tf do you even do that? I get how you would on a stock proprietary OS. But there are open OSes, and then how? Doubt something this complex and autonomous could be hidden like the XZ backdoor. If some OS complies - wouldn’t people fork it to remove the malware?
And then there are desktops, which are much easier and more universal to make private…
There is no such thing as a binary choice between “absolutely private” and “absolutely non-private”.
Simple Mobile Tools are now continued in form of Fossify. It does have an SMS app.
Only three years for a premium phone sounds like rich people behavior, to be honest.
You’ve been through two phones in just four years? That doesn’t sound that great for them…
Wouldn’t it be better to just, y’know, cut out the free space around it?
First - 6.3 usually means already over the edge of comfortable, 7a is already almost too much. Second - thickness adds to it when it’s in your hand. And third - why would I spend huge money (doesn’t seem like it would decrease in price with generations as much as a normal phone, it might be EOL when it becomes affordable) on something that breaks more easily and is still bigger?
The ones I have seen in stores are still too long to be used with one hand or fit comfortably into a pocket. My Pixel 7a is about the biggest I can use one-handed, and even then there is awkwardness.
I wonder how it would impact custom OSes.
No, I mean not Njalla-like services, but normal registrars like Porkbun.
Fair point about credit lookups… I wonder if you could use a real person’s info like this.
Yeah, but quite a few of them DO accept crypto - then it’s fine I guess?
Also they don’t include comments, which are a huge part of my reading. I save pages to read on a e-ink tablet for comfort, html where pictures are irrelevant but pdf in case of any graphics.
I mean… They disabled desktop registration, then disabled registration from any non-official client, then can randomly ban people who try to make their usage of the platform more private/anonymous… Then there is censorship, at least here. And I have heard of at least one case of cooperation with German LE, so it’s not “untouchable” for Westerners too.
It was never safe with such an approach of “I can close my eyes and pretend the law doesn’t apply to me” even in the West. If it was hostile to privacy and anonymity by design, it was a matter of time until it became wide open to Western LE too. The sheer amount of compromate it had on users was a ticking time bomb.
“Highly decentralized complexity” - what does that even apply to? That would apply to Matrix, XMPP, Simplex, especially Briar. Even Signal can technically be selfhosted (whether it is feasible is another question), in Telegram you can’t have even that because the server is closed.
Although there still is not a similar way to acquire your first Monero, the minimum amount for any trade there. Same problem as Bisq)
Telegram.
TG selling out? Was it not always like this, with all its censorship and attempts to combat anonymity? Weird to put it next to Tails, Tor or Localmonero.
I don’t think that whether it has a privacy impact even matters. What matters is how it demonstrates Mozilla’s attitude towards user consent.
But the JS is served to the browser each time the page loads, you can’t be sure it stays the same between loads. Sure, this is the same problem as malicious updates, but still exaggerated - the opportunity to slip in altered code is “every time you open the page” rather than “every update”. Plus much more convenient to do targeting.
This is not binary like this either. There are a TON of variables.
All depends on whom you want to be private against, as well as how much effort they want to put into getting your information. There is no “absolute privacy”… But there is “requiring more effort from the chosen adversary than you’re worth”.