My country has a huge piracy tradition, we have counterfeit of everything and no one gives a fuck. I have this satellite decoder that let me watch any satellite-broadcasted channel in the world, and the guys who made those are so awesome that they also offer a streaming service they upload everything from all major streaming services, and it’s completely free, no subscription, you just buy their device and you have access to their private streaming

Do they work offline or are they just small data broker agents?

Streaming services subscription.

Yep, they lack users because they lack image and video search, leta was pretty much in alpha, too soon to complain about the lack of users.

A Pixel phone in my country costs about twice as much as in the USA, and our monthly minimum wage is about four times lower… privacy is a luxury hard to afford :/

I just counted mine, 28 apps, 17 of which came with the phone and I can’t uninstall - so I actually only installed 11, and 2 are games.

I’m kinda astonished he uses more than 100 apps… who needs that many apps?

I only recognize Harry Potter there

The second rule is live, laugh, love

What’s redditism? - I really don’t know, I only ever participated in a few subs about specific software.

“Swiss law prohibits the country’s courts from compelling a VPN service to log IP addresses”
Seems like they breached only IPs that accessed emails (I haven’t read their email terms before, but the VPN says “strict no-logs policy” - which is audited), but because of the zero-knowledge encryption they can’t access email content.

ps: Another difference is that the government had to demonstrate on court there were basis to believe certain emails were linked to criminal activity… not that I don’t believe it’s bullshit, but in the USA they can require any data for any reason without demonstrating probable cause and you can’t even mention it’s happening.

The map of space debris looks scary because each is displayed as the size of a country, while all together they would fit inside a single stadium.

Nope, that’s why independent audits exist. On a random day, technicians from other organizations show up and check how the data is being handled, and Proton has passed every audit.

The reason you can’t trust American companies on that is because of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act and the National Security Letter. Government agencies can force companies to hand over data or create backdoors without court orders, and the companies aren’t allowed to tell their clients about it.

Lumo by Proton is private and free, however, it’s not very good (at least on free tier).
Duck.ai claims to be private, but you can never trust an American company on that.

I’ve read somewhere that adding too much complexity just lights a beacon your way, like “look at this guy with shitty latency using all these weird ports, he must be up to something”.

However, OP just seems to want to use Tor without falling into Captcha Hell.

I never tested it, but what about having a second phone with those filters that change your appearance, and then you point your camera on its screen?

I guess they will just put more flock cams on the streets. The law say the government can’t violate your privacy without a warranty, so they are using private companies for that.

I don’t think AGPLv3 license would prevent someone from opening a nazi bar lemmy though…

"if you were in violation of lemmy’s terms of use, yeah…” wait, is there a central lemmy that can nuke other instances? I thought the whole point of the Fediverse was that if you don’t like an instance, you just defederate from it, and that there was no central power.

Yeah, we used to own the software we bought and could do whatever we wanted with it on our private storage, but now capitalism has realized it’s more lucrative to only sell licenses. Imagine Microsoft/Apple/Google erasing your privately stored documents tomorrow because they contained stuff against their policies. Very dangerous when you have governments banning abortion, trans rights, and even labeling antifascism as terrorism.

I can’t believe the number of people thinking trillion dollar mega corporations overreach is good just because it’s happening to others. Tomorrow, it’s you - that’s why we need more consumer rights and privacy protection, but the thing about rights is that they are for everyone and not just for the people you pick.

Self-hosted private server, just like a lemmy instance, one joins out of their own will. Imagine mega corporations being able to decide what is acceptable on your lemmy instance and take it down if they don’t like it?