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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

idk what people say but webextensions were a mistake.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Allowing any deranged "security" zealot into FOSS community and projects is a mistake. Boycott GrapheneOS, boycott Brad Spengler, boycott grsecurity, boycott clowns like madaidan, boycott the ones that go around shitting on F-Droid and promote Google Play Store in the same breath.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Why boycott GrapheneOS? I feel a bit OOTL here, I only know the drama with the ex-lead dev, but I understand that the project as a whole is your best bet at a mobile experience that you control. Am I missing something?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

https://old.reddit.com/r/privatelife/comments/ug9qnc/writeup_criticism_of_rprivacyguides_grapheneos/

This spans 4 years of privacy community, and explains how the security cult that tries to hack through FOSS community works. If you take just 1-2 hours to go through every piece of information and evidence here, you will no longer be OOTL. I am a true privacy militant.

The 5th year aka last year is here, but it is more focused on the key entity, since rest of the people are no longer as active, and this is the last big hurdle. https://old.reddit.com/r/privatelife/comments/13teoo9/grapheneos_corporate_foss_loving_witch_hunting/

I wrote and covered all of this for years to hope people listen to one reasonable privacy person that's not a conspiratorial nutjob.