settinmoon

As a Canadian I approve this message

Just curious, can Google apps still do cross app tracking if you check the do not track option on ios devices?

That's only true if the engineers following the order clearly know what they're doing is wrong, which is often not the case. Most software engineers are as ignorant about privacy as their customers. They do not give a damn about FOSS nor privacy and are often users of these products themselves.

That would be cool but also will defeat the purpose of not standing out

There are dual hose variations. I think Hisense and Whynter sells them here in the US. If you can find them you should always go for those.

"Coercion involves compelling a party to act in an involuntary manner by the use of threats, including threats to use force against that party."

Perhaps you should kindly explain why you think threats are involved in this case?

I thought this was true a couple months ago. Until last month I all of a sudden found out fb messenger no longer allows you to sign out from the app. I'm not sure when the change happened but this pissed me off.

I then started DM folks one by one that I normally talk to to convince them to switch and kept bothering them until they caved in. Then I rebuilt the same groups on Signal. Now most of the folks I converse with on a regular basis all uses Signal group chats.

Yes, and I just keep bothering them until they cave in. I'm only interested in getting rid of the other appson my phone and I don't really care if they still choose to use the other spyware apps (I haven't made the full switch either). After all, protecting online privacy is an overall lifestyle and behavioural change, merely switching one platform does nothing. I'm definitely not going to try to convince people why protecting their own privacy is important as I value my time.

"Strong opinions loosely held"

Implying you should have the courage to fight for what you believe is right but not hold onto them once you're proven wrong.

I learned this as a company culture thing from one of my previous employers and not sure if there's another source for it. I did not like that employer very much in the end but this quote has been stuck with me since and I live by it.

Stop pretending to be Americans, y'all are not even using freedom units /s

I went through their privacy agreement and personally speaking, I'm not too comfortable with them when Location and Device data is part of their data collection, as these doesn't seem to be necessary for them to provide the service.

There are also a couple of other clauses that I find concerning with their data sharing agreement:

• With third parties who may access data about you to provide you with the Services;
• In Connection with, or during the negotiation of, any merger, sale of company stock or assets, financing, acquisition, divestiture or dissolution of all or a portion of our business;

My problem with the first clause is that it's too vague. From my interpretation, they can potentially sell your data to any third part as long as they can make the argument such data is necessary to provide you with the "Services"

The problem with second one is in the case of this company getting bought out. Even if we trust that they are currently a privacy respecting and trustworthy entity, there is no guarantee that in the case of a future buyout the buyer is equally trustworthy (e.g. what if Intuit buys them?). With the amount of data that they know about you (e.g. spending behaviour, device / location info, government IDs etc.), this could be extremely detrimental to your data privacy in the long run.

Now whether this is the lesser evil vs giving your payment info to websites is a judgement everyone needs to make. I steered away from it because I think it consolidates too much of my online purchasing habit into one place, and it's a risk on top of all the info I already provide to my banks. I can definitely see merit if you're using one throwaway card with low credit limit on this service or using it to make purchases on websites that you don't frequent.

To reduce fingerprinting. Linux still has a relatively small user base.