watching less youtube was one of my resolutions this year, it’s not going very well. remind me to skip the trash and watch more movies / read more books instead

dozens of variations

this is like saying windows 10 and 11 are completely different operating systems that can’t run the same .exes

just learned through another reply, thank you for putting my mind more at ease brothers 🤝

oh damn, didn’t know about tor’s history either! thank you for the relief. faith restored cautiously

well, this is concerning to hear. i had no idea signal was funded by the US state

i had history disabled for a while until i realized that it then forgets your progress in longer videos… deal-breaker for me

damn i never knew! thank you

this title totally buries the lead lede: outlook has started displaying ads in inboxes, that’s the story and that’s what Proton was pointing out

critical damage to the “privacy-conscious people are not freaks” message

sad that twitter users will jump to literally anything except mastodon. wake me up in 15 years when bluesky finishes its twitter elon musk cycle and it’ll be like i took a 12 second nap

ask them if they would say the same to an activist from an oppressive country

i choose to opt for the most convenient service (currently spotify even though ceo daniel ek is a lunatic who invests in AI military tech), and then i buy vinyls/merch/tickets/bandcamp copies directly from the artists to actually support them. if you’re not into spotify then apple music and tidal both work fine with some caveats

sorry iOS users

EU is forcing apple to allow sideloading. not sure when the deadline was, i think next year?

apple sucks for many reasons but this is just blatant fanboy mudslinging lol. i use plenty of foss on my apple devices, mainly mac

seem like they offer a lot for free

i gladly pay for proton knowing that i’m helping fund a critical tool for activists under oppressive regimes :)

Wasn’t there also a controversy where some people believed that telegram was private and secure, but that only was for a very limited subset of their features?

i think you’re thinking of how you have to go out of your way to start a “secret chat” for it to have the touted encryption. those “secret chats” are way less feature-rich than the standard ones though, which sucks ass

do you think someone walks around the forest to water each individual tree?

DDG is untrustworthy because it is US-based, and because its CEO and founder is also the founder of “The Names Database”

that’s DuckDuckGo and “Names Database” CEO*, folks. PLEASE do not look to this man as a beacon for anything privacy-related, even when he says something true.

that is a great relief to hear, thank you :)