Anybody who uses an Android phone and hasn’t dug into their Location Services settings, and hasn’t disabled them.

Currently, the mobile hotspots from Calyx use the T-Mobile network when available, and fall back to using the Sprint network otherwise.

Doesn’t this ultimately just make an IMSI available anyway? Or am I missing something here?

Erosion of public opinion has always been the plan. I did a double take recently when I found out that back in 2017, Mozilla adding telemetry was something that people actually were offended by. Unfortunately, people stopped being offended by it, and nobody noticed that the telemetry experts were from the Facebook company, and soon that innocent data collection turned into an ad network.

We need to go back to treating these people the same way Google Glass users were treated back in the 2010s. They were Glassholes then. They’re surveillance freaks today. They should be shunned by society. The nicest thing you should do to somebody wearing these surveillance glasses is to politely tell them that you are uncomfortable around their weird behavior.

Wow. We need the Google-funded company that’s not quite as evil as Google. Heaven forbid anybody suggest they acted less evil.

It’s not as good as not implementing the things in the first place

Then you understand exactly why Mozilla is so problematic.

Mozilla wrote the playbook that said “Defaults matter!!!” and then Mozilla made their defaults shit. Mozilla should be apologizing to you for requiring a switch to begin with. If they had any semblance of morality, they would be endlessly contrite.

Please take this clarification to Mozilla: AI should never have been in their browser in the first place. If they felt it was necessary to waste donations on, they could have offered it as an actually optional extension.

Mozilla take note. You can actually get money from your users for a change, and not just through Google.

Especially when your userbase, the people you’re supposedly building your browser for, keep telling you to keep AI out of it.

Brave is actually listening to their users. Mozilla should feel humiliated that they never do.

Mandatory note: you cannot contribute a dime towards Firefox. Google contributes, not you. Money given to Mozilla will find its way into AI experiments (https://www.mozilla.ai/) and AI grants (https://mozilla.vc/).

Vivaldi’s ad blocking is far worse. I’m not sure how they built it, but even after you disable the whitelists for their paying partners, it misses things Brave and uBO on Firefox don’t.

Ah it’s the AI evangelist troll. You know better than to actually believe this, and even if you didn’t, the statement is a thought-terminating cliché that has been thoroughly mocked.

There were tax breaks for a thing that exclusively harms the surrounding citizens? Wow. Good to see lobbyists for evil corpos are still convincing people.

Where are the “buh inevitable, buh just run someone else’s local” bros when stuff like this goes down?

Actual website:

If you’ve witnessed an Alien abduction, do not be alarmed. The Alien is in good hands. We will take care of it… and return it safely to its place of origin.

It.

Somehow ABC reports this but misses the fact “Aliens” are nonhuman

“If you’ve witnessed an Alien abduction, do not be alarmed,” it reads. “The Alien is in good hands.”

Signal will only use fallback notification services if you uninstall and then reinstall it while Google Play Services is unavailable.

The author’s own intellectual property was deemed a violation, and the appeal mechanisms turned out to be opaque—they formally exist, but in practice, getting a decision reversed with automated review is nearly impossible.

That sounds about right. Unlike brick-and-mortar stores of the past, no company needs to answer to you now. Doesn’t matter if you’re a paying customer, you can’t bribe Google to care about you. The only thing that could work is bad publicity on social media, at best.

Services like IFTTT allow Ring doorbells to sync footage directly to Google Drive, creating a potential attack vector that users rarely consider.

The theoretical scenario works like this: if a malicious actor wanted to trigger a Google account ban, they could expose an internet-connected camera to intentionally problematic content, knowing the footage would automatically upload to the target’s Drive.

I love how technology has made our lives easier.

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Like the Terms and Conditions May Apply final scene, but you actually mean it

Google Play Services is the biggest bane of privacy on Google’s official Android itself (It feeds motion data to applications without giving you an opt-out). But like you mentioned, people can leave their phone at home, or put it in a Faraday cage, disable Play Services, or install Graphene and local mapping app.

If anybody’s intrigued by those options, I hope they follow up on them.

Have you heard of lying by omission? You, or one of your leftist friends, said a ton about how Swiss law also binds them to give up private data. Funny that’s missing here.

It’s also missing the fact they are looking to relocate out of Switzerland.

Switzerland also benefits from a unique legal provision with Article 271 of the Swiss Criminal Code(new window), which forbids any Swiss company from assisting foreign law enforcement, under threat of criminal penalty

Really makes you think.

Can we at least agree that Proton should stop misleading activists on their homepage?

I’m learning so much about you leftists.