Cuba and Venezuela are in america. I’m guessing this is about a specific country in north america.
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39·7 days agoGotta support alternatives such as Peertube, Nebula… so there are nice places to find videos as YouTube becomes worse and worse.
23·12 days agoIf you understand the security implications, you probably won’t enable it.
1·13 days agoNot surprising. Most Linux OSes are lightweight compared to Windows. And Moores’ Law slowed down in the last 10+ years.
The sad thing is you paid to get a car with a TCU, then paid a mechnic to remove it. Assuming you’re not a mechnic/hobbist yourself.
It’s good that Mozilla is shaming car companies and shining a spotlight on the issue. Journalists need to ask about tracking and privacy when a new car model comes out. Buyer should ask sellers the same.
1·23 days agoIt’s both, and not a small amount of bytes.
Adblocking is a more efficient way to make adversiting unprofitable, as it avoid wasting both yours’ and adtech’s bandwidth.
Wasting resources isn’t a great strategy, even if someone else is paying for it.
5·1 month agoEating Doritos while black
Yes exactly. Thanks for backing me up :)
Thanks, fixed. Sorry for being a bit too loose with spelling
This is a lose-lose-lose.
- New cars don’t respect people’s privacy.
- New cars cost more due to the extra camera/sensors/compute/connectivity necessary for tracking.
- Less people buy new cars due to increased cost and tracking. Instead drive older, more polluting cars for longer.
Windows 11 is pushing OneDrive and Copilot hard. There are OneDrive sections in many Microsoft apps, not just Office365. Tweaking settings to never (offer) saving to OneDrive has little effect.
The best way to avoid OneDrive is to avoid Microsoft apps, ideally get rid of Windows.
Police and government agencies can track phones even when they’re connected to a genuine cell towers, via mobile operators. It’s just slightly more convenient for them to use an ISMI catcher because they collect data without going through a third party.
Assume a mobile phone can be tracked if it’s powered, regardless of iOS or Android version and settings.
3·2 months agoThat’s right, the commission probably isn’t involved on those cases. I interpreted “The EU” literally by including its various components, ie the EU commission, the member states governments, companies and individuals in those countries.
There’s no central “EU government” that decides everything. The EU is not a centralized country, not even a federation. Members states takes many decisions on their own, and often need to approve EU comission proposals.
You’re talking about a great number of organisations, with different decision makers. It takes time and political will to coordinate and execute this kind of big switch. This needs to happen to become independant from foreign monopolies, but I’m not surprised it hasn’t already happened.
The EU commission decides for some EU institutions. Member countries decide for their own institutions and military. Each country and military has its own labyrinth of bureaucracy with lengthy decision making, and large+complex IT infrastructures. All of this has inertia. And switching cost money, even if it’s possible to save on license cost on the long run.
The EU does contribute to free software to some extent. But not enough.
At least 7% of Linux contributors are in Germany+France. An extra 2% from the UK. This is probably underestimated since the source has country info on only half of contributors. https://insights.linuxfoundation.org/project/korg/contributors?timeRange=past365days&start=2024-10-06&end=2025-10-06
The EU commission funded free software via NGI, and indirectly via NLnet. It’s a great initiative helping many small projects, but its future is incertain. https://nextgraph.org/eu-ngi-funding/
Invidious is great, I forgot I’m avoiding this as well by not using YouTube’s official UI.
Ads, Tracking, Autoplay, Suggested videos, …
The list of “restrictions” for refusing to verify your age include privacy-friendly tweaks that I would consider as perks. Those would make great defaults for everyone.
Ads are no longer personalized
Digital wellbeing tools (such as “take a break”) are enabled by default
Reminders about privacy are shown when uploading a video or commenting
Video uploads are set to private by default
Another downside is that Google is no longer releasing the source code for monthly security updates, only for quarterly ones. This, in conjunction with other delays in OS source code, means most custom ROMs can’t ship monthly updates anymore. Add this to the pile of other things that make it harder to mod your Android phone in 2025.
Great, Google is making AOSP-based, Google-free ROMs less secure. To accomodate corporate partners that are unable to do monthly bug fixes.
Some actionnable suggestions :
Keep in mind this is free software provided without warranty. No one ows you a stable experience nor support. People are giving this software away and volonteering time and resources to make this happen. If there’s a bug and you need it fixed, please submit a bug report, ideally with a patch to fix it.