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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.

That’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.

Nice. I hope it makes Signal suitable for public official required to archive communications.

Currently signal users probably have no backup, or use a Signal fork that support archiving in a less secure way.

Privacy Badger go beyond blocking cross-site cookies:

Privacy Badger comes with other advantages like cookie blocking, click-to-activate placeholders for potentially useful tracker widgets (video players, comments widgets, etc.), and outgoing link click tracking removal on Facebook and Google.

Privacy Badger can detect canvas-based fingerprinting, and will block third party domains that use it. Detection of other forms of fingerprinting and protections against first-party fingerprinting are ongoing projects. Of course, once a domain is blocked by Privacy Badger, it will no longer be able to fingerprint you.

https://privacybadger.org/#How-is-Privacy-Badger-different-from-Disconnect,-Adblock-Plus,-Ghostery,-and-other-blocking-extensions

He should at least have “DO NOT DEVELOP MY APP” tatooed on his forehead.

Is there a TL;DR which are more trustworthy or privacy friendly?

I had a quick look, it’s a pretty long writeup of different ways in which all those apps are bad.

Some simple actionnable recommandations would be nice.

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Alan Tudyk would probably have been a fine detective Spooner.

Will Smith is a fine detective Spooner.

It’s the casting’s director choice, it’s normal for actors who were not picked to be sore.

Could there be collaborative moderation where node admins volontarily block other nodes or onion services that host CSAM?

I wonder if that’s technically possible for a hidden service directory or rendez-vous point to do that. It wouldn’t completely kill those services, but may at least make less Tor resources available to them.

The trickiest question may not be technical but organisational. The Tor project probably doesn’t want to be in a position to validate/decide block requests. Different entities all over the world would ask for blocks, for many different kind of contents.

F-Droid store/repo is safer than Google Play Store. Google’s own store has many shady apps, including spyware and occasionnal malware.

I don’t get the argument that Play Store is safer than others.