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They ask the push providers (Apple/Google) for data on the push token from e.g. a messaging app. This way they associate the account from an app with an identity.

Very overlooked point. You can find privacy guides online but very few even suggest that FCM etc. might have privacy issues, let alone explain exactly why. It seems this has already been used by law enforcement in the past: https://www.wired.com/story/apple-google-push-notification-surveillance/

The Molly-FOSS fork of Signal (which aims to be even more secure/private) actually supports self-hosted push notifications using UnifiedPush.

I also found this comment:

As far as I know, FCM on Android can be configured to use a notification payload (which is piped through Google's servers). But for a release app this is discouraged, especially if you are privacy conscious. An app would normally use FCM to receive a trigger and look up the received message from the app's own backend. See here for more information.

https://hackea.org/notas/matrix.html

https://github.com/libremonde-org/paper-research-privacy-matrix.org/blob/master/part1/README.md

https://youtube.com/watch?v=W8KEuAEYjQ4

https://disroot.org/en/blog/matrix-closure

https://web.archive.org/web/20210804205638/https://serpentsec.1337.cx/matrix

Being a furry is not common

The number of children who identify as a furry in your local grade school would shock you.

It's also possible the number of people who like it do not outnumber the people who don't like it

I use this one and it is definitely much stronger (and louder) than any can of air I've ever used. Stronger as in more volume AND velocity.

On a hot day it literally cools my entire body down.

plot twist the poster is Empress

next you're going to tell me there's a hidden treasure map on the back of it

People who want RT are not everyday people though.

How does an average desktop user benefit from any RT changes?

I don't think that comparison is fair because I explicitly said that people who wanted RT are already going out of their way to get things done. The average desktop user (putting GPS in every phone) won't benefit from it (or RT) and it could likely make their experience even worse.

If you care about security, don’t put a Sim card in your phone.

Depends on what you mean by security... or privacy. You need to define a threat model before any suggestions can be made.

If you're worried about someone hacking into your phone via an app, a sim card likely won't make a difference.

If you're worried about your location being tracked... that can often be done without a sim card or any cellular service on your device.

Then there are malicious carriers (or ones compelled by a government) that could track you without even having legitimate service activated. All phones at least in the US now are mandated to have (A)GPS receivers.

All depends on what your concerns are.

My understanding is that they don't... practically at all. But if compelled by a court to give your information, they could later learn that the information you provided was false. Or maybe someone reported you and they ask for some type of verification. Either way, it's one of many tactics that can be used against someone, even if you only gave fake information to protect your own privacy.

Frivolous DMCAs have also been used to reveal identities of people someone didn't like.

I can see the argument from both sides... and maybe both is true. I think the same could be said about twitter... having to login to read tweets means they can easily track who looks at what... which is very valuable information to a lot of people with money.