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  • Google Gmail now filters email from EU to spam, which is deleted after one month

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  • As someone who currently has a large portion of the Internet blocked - NO. You do NOT want that. This has awful implications and is very much a slippery slope. A lot of necessary info and contacts are on Google - is this bad? Yeah, absolutely, but right now losing access to Google would mean losing access to this information. While blocking the addresses of such a big company, you'd inevitably break unexpected parts of the Internet as collateral. If the people want to use the service - a lot out of habit, a lot because there aren't alternatives suitable for them - they would use proxies or VPNs (and in my experience - often opening themselves to risk in the process, because they'd go with a random free VPN from Play Store). It is very possible they'd go after the censorship evasion protocols next.

    If you really want bans - maybe banning the companies from buying ads, or using Google's tools for business would be fine. But NOT fragmenting the Web further and strengthening the censorship infrastructure.

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    I believe that the "Nicole" images being sent to Threadiverse users may be intending to deanonymize accounts

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  • Yeah, I get it (barring the fact that literal Facebook is not even accessible from my IP lol). But whether this is useful, depends on who the attacker is. If we're talking about, say, a data broker - yeah. But would Jake from accounting have such "IP-account" logs?

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    I believe that the "Nicole" images being sent to Threadiverse users may be intending to deanonymize accounts

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  • Good luck, my IP consistently points to an entirely another city.

  • Paypal vs. Credit Card vs. Klarna

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  • It recently was in the news for refusing to work on degoogled mobile OSes, and the website is not fully-functional compared to the app.

  • Is Tuta a good alternative to gmail?

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  • I am using Android until I can find an alternative

    You mean you're considering something like PostmarketOS? Just wonder where people are looking for alternatives.

  • Apple will soon support encrypted RCS messaging with Android users

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  • I don't think they would at least because the share of people who can use it is not that large. Where I am, only one carrier out of the big four has it, and only Samsung phones support it (Google as well, but they're not officially sold so not quite as popular).

  • Blur Your House On Google

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  • A blurred house in a row of unblurred ones would attract more attention.

  • Privacy WIN! Apple & Android Unite for Secure Messaging

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  • I assumed that when it comes to SMS 2FA, simswapping is a threat much bigger than interception of the contents...

  • Privacy WIN! Apple & Android Unite for Secure Messaging

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  • XMPP is very much a valid option nowadays too! Much easier and lighter to host than Matrix, too. I use it with my mom - Conversations is just as easy to use as Whatsapp, and maybe more pleasant.

  • Privacy WIN! Apple & Android Unite for Secure Messaging

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  • It seems like where I live, RCS is not supported on all carriers (not on mine) - but most importantly, not on all phones. The one carrier that has it says it only works on certain Samsungs (I guess also Google Pixel, but they are not officially sold, even if not unpopular). So even though they're not paid separately like SMS, I don't think anyone would be switching to it from Whatsapp or Telegram.

  • Privacy WIN! Apple & Android Unite for Secure Messaging

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  • I had some! It's the rescue services warning you that the ice is starting to break and you shouldn't walk on it.

  • Alternative to GoogleTV - AndroidTV

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  • I wonder: would the 1GB Raspberry Pi 3 be okay for this? The more powerful ones are very expensive, $60 is already kind of a lot, so would hope maybe it could work for 1080p video (or 720p m3u streams)?

    Edit: have tried by now, and it is indeed just enough for my needs.

  • Folks who moved from Google to Proton: What do you wish you'd known at the start?

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  • Yeah, I am very much aware of this. However, I prefer not to trust the encryption that happens on their servers instead of my client, so I'd consider the non-e2e mail as fully open. As for bridge - indeed it solves the problem, but it's exclusive to paid plans, which is not what I had experience with.

  • Folks who moved from Google to Proton: What do you wish you'd known at the start?

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  • I mean depends on your location. Chances are it is fine for you.

  • Folks who moved from Google to Proton: What do you wish you'd known at the start?

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  • I mean of course you can use mail and other services - but you'd need another VPN/proxy, which is what we're used to. But I only wanted the VPN, and that is indeed unusable

  • Folks who moved from Google to Proton: What do you wish you'd known at the start?

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  • Blocked by the government I mean. Inaccessible. Somene I know tried Stealth and it doesn't seem to work either, at least on the free tier.

  • Folks who moved from Google to Proton: What do you wish you'd known at the start?

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  • Yeah. Tried ProtonVPN before it was blocked, and hoped I'd also have another email address. But no, being unable to use it in my email client with all the other accounts made it unusable for me.

  • India Tax Agency will gain access to citizen email, social accounts

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  • Yes, I understand the limitations of GPG. I myself mostly use OMEMO which does have PFS. However, there isn't really an email encryption scheme that is as widely adopted (and even this is not saying much).

  • India Tax Agency will gain access to citizen email, social accounts

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  • Yeah, this is more of a joke considering most emails are not encrypted. As for illegality - I guess this is just one of the laws a lot of people just have to casually break. I didn't quite understand how exactly the new rules would be enforced, but seems like avoiding passive detection at least would be trivial.

  • India Tax Agency will gain access to citizen email, social accounts

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  • Yeah, sure! Make yourself comfortable:

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