I’ve heard the severity actually doesn’t work as deterrent, people tend to assume they don’t get caught

Can’t stop eating dough

So your wife had them in her contacts, got notified her contacts joined signal, and the link to you is…?

Graphene on Pixel 8 here, also pretty happy with it. Previously had a Pixel 3a with Graphene.

You need money to defend your copyright in court, otherwise it’s pretty meaningless

The AI is confidently wrong, that’s the whole problem. If there was an easy way to know if it could be wrong we wouldn’t have this discussion

Graphene allows more profiles but it should work on stock android

Yes? https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock

I’ve been getting around quite well on OrganicMaps, but it does lack live traffic information

Check out https://www.privacyguides.org, they have a bunch of useful info and recommendations.

Remember, it’s not an all-or-nothing situation, every step you take away from google helps. And you can always reevaluate later, and take time to figure out what works best for you.

You can run multiple user profiles on one phone to isolate apps like Google Maps.

Tutorial/explaination:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YB01HHFitFA

They are usually losing money

https://www.statista.com/chart/26773/profitability-development-of-spotify/

These apps are not interested in finding you a good partner, they are solely interested in you continuing to use the app

People keep years worth of browser history, until finding something in there becomes harder than searching the web. I see no use for that either, but everyone I’ve asked insisted they need it. They couldn’t really spell out why either

*in the USA. This doesn’t apply to EU and UK as per the article

The EU is trying to make an “eID”

https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2023/11/08/european-digital-identity-council-and-parliament-reach-a-provisional-agreement-on-eid/

Microsoft locked my account (one week after forcing me to migrate from my Mojang account), and they require a phone number for “verification”. They don’t have anything to verify against however. So if someone malicous had gained access to my account, they could just enter their own number and the account is theirs to keep I guess ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Also Wikipedia is very well funded, there are a lot of smaller projects running on shoestring budgets

It’ll get even worse now if SEO people find out how exactly you can game the algorithm

Oh that’s sweet!