Thank you, I didn't know this existed.
Pherenike
joined 1 year ago
And here's your dose of sick corporate hypocrisy of the day.
I agree, the reasoning seems rather outdated. Flatpaks are pretty good.
There is absolutely nothing questionable about what he said, that article you linked just says they tried to dig up dirt on him and what they found was ridiculously unscandalous
They use Adblock Plus though. Would not recommend.
It all kinda boils down to the Cambridge Analytica scandal for me. Harvesting people's locations and data, accessing and logging our daily lives is what facilitates mass manipulation of the public's opinion, therefore distorting their view of the world and killing freedom of thought. GAFAM and others are specialists in controlling their users. I ultimately don't want to be profiled, controlled and/or rail-roaded in any aspect of my life.
In this case, you can't have your cake and eat it too.
Brutal.
I tried Thunder, Sync, Liftoff, Boost, and settled on Eternity.
This is the way.
I'm not very tech-savvy, and that article looks very nice, but it's kind of old and it's true that they haven't been as transparent (and frequently audited) as other services and they still require a phone number to set up an account, even if you can switch to only using a username later. Also, they removed encrypted database, and Molly brings that back which is the main reason I use it. Another thing I don't like about Signal is how ferociously they've tried to shut down forks in the past, and how they don't say that you need Google Play Services for it to work properly. Sadly it's the only "privacy-conscious" service I've managed to make most of my family and friends use, after trying for years.
Tilix is great, complete for my needs.