looks like google is going bankrupt in a bit

this is why you absolutely must use a VPN on all wifi hotspots all the time. even in your own home

consumer

We aren’t consumers, We’re citizens, we’re customers, we’re users, but we aren’t consumers.

Cars consume gasoline and diesel, fire consumes whatever it’s burning, but people are people.

But guys! This isn’t going to be hackable at all! And it’s certainly not going to be a problem for problematic gamblers or anyone with compulsive spending habits

I was once called a “right winger” and a “trump supporter” over on reddit because I talked about how awesome self-governing local communities would be.

Who better to decide what happens in a town than the people who actually live there?

There’s paid trolls and bots that muddy the waters about everything.

Anyone who still thinks that is either new to Linux or profoundly naive.

People still shit downvotes on me whenever I talk about how linux isn’t perfect.

Microsoft, for all its faults is at least honest enough to admit outright that their software needs protection. They’re still not honest about what kind of protection it needs. But at least they’re not going to yoink anything off your system they don’t want you to use like Apple does

It’s so blatantly unconstitutional,

Careful, someone called me a fascist for saying that about this issue.

they don’t even need to put shit directly on our devices to get what they want really, they have a wiretap into all the advertising companies and all the internet providers and all the cellphone and land line providers. They have a wiretap into every remotely accessible camera system. They don’t need to come up with more invasive ways to get into all our shit but they keep doing it.

oh but guys! Linux is so much more secure than windows!

Linux can’t get hacked or get malware! That’s absurd!

That was all sarcasm

well clearly there must be someone at that evil organization with a soul then

but digital ID is going to make everything so secure!

That was sarcasm

Who goes out of their way to buy shitty apple products? There’s your answer

Good, now fine them for throttling people and selling all our other data without our consent

if they’re based in a UK territory it’s only a matter of time before their censorship and surveillance laws either take them down or turn it into spyware.

cool, what country is their headquarters based in?

IVPN - Nearly same as Mullvad.

do they use quantum secure encryption?

If not, that’s like comparing a horse-drawn carriage to a space shuttle.

Proton or Mullvad, whatever works better for you

Yes, but telling you how I do it would be bad opsec.

As soon as I first heard about services like betterhelp and their competitors, I knew it was a terrible idea.

Therapists have to keep records of everything you say to them, and if it’s a big-tech owned service like that that’s already getting hacked every other hour, do you think it’s safe to have intimate details of your personal problems in a database like that?

use an adblocking DNS like Adguard and use a good VPN that won’t snitch.

Proton or Mullvad, whatever works better for you, they’re both good.