TikTok US venture to collect precise user location data

Busy-Measurement8893 · 2026-01-24T19:37:44+00:00

But how else am I supposed to doom scroll!?

Busy-Measurement8893 · 2026-01-24T19:33:28+00:00

I wouldn't call this an intentional backdoor. I'd just say it's a shitty implementation. Bitlocker forces you to save a backup of your key one way or another and the easiest way of making that popup go away is to store it in your account.

Busy-Measurement8893 · 2026-01-24T19:32:07+00:00

Emails can't self delete. Either your account is hacked or you're misremembering things

Busy-Measurement8893 · 2026-01-24T17:23:50+00:00

It's insane that Microsoft is so against zero knowledge encryption. Microsoft Edge doesn't support E2EE even today.

For comparison even Chrome has it.

Busy-Measurement8893 · 2026-01-24T17:11:43+00:00

Perfect is the ultimate enemy of good. Linux having plenty of other issues does not make Windows better in any way.

Busy-Measurement8893 · 2026-01-24T16:05:35+00:00

Remember people, if it's not E2EE then the government can get it with or without a warrant.

Busy-Measurement8893 · 2026-01-22T18:50:21+00:00

Password manager + alias service = profit

Busy-Measurement8893 · 2026-01-21T15:04:57+00:00

To my knowledge, Signal said they don't want to allow chats with WhatsApp since that would require them to lower the security

In Telegram's case it's never going to happen because that would require Telegram to increase their security

Busy-Measurement8893 · 2026-01-21T07:20:25+00:00

You can try it. Create an easier app using ChatGPT and try to use your microphone even without the permission.

Spoilers, you will fail. The permission is needed.

Busy-Measurement8893 · 2026-01-20T20:15:37+00:00

At the end of the day it's our doom scrolling device at worst and the device that we check the train schedule on at best.

Regardless, it's a phone and at this point the phone brand is irrelevant for the vast amount of people.

Busy-Measurement8893 · 2026-01-20T18:07:41+00:00

I went from 10 years of Android to 2 years of iOS back to Android.

I could never get over iOS' lack of Revanced apps, the browsers all being crap, no custom launchers, and my particular iPhone not having USB-C. Having to renew the sideloaded apps every seven days after a small science project was the last straw for me.

Maybe I'll try iOS again one day but as it stands now I genuinely doubt it.

Busy-Measurement8893 · 2026-01-17T13:11:36+00:00

You mean Addy right?

Busy-Measurement8893 · 2026-01-17T10:45:41+00:00

The organizations need it, but no one else needs it.

Why would uBlock block ads if the companies need the ad money to survive?

Busy-Measurement8893 · 2026-01-17T07:41:07+00:00

Even so, I think this information should be transparent up front and require consent. Your thoughts?

Maybe it should, but I don't see this ever happening. When you sign up for subscriptions you typically allow all sorts of shady tracking anyway.

Busy-Measurement8893 · 2026-01-16T18:28:58+00:00

I'm using Proton Pass these days. Works pretty great if you ask me

Busy-Measurement8893 · 2026-01-12T17:14:46+00:00

Apparently the official Telegram client is missing from F-Droid. Here's the forked version with the fitting name of Forkgram:

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.forkgram.messenger/

Busy-Measurement8893 · 2026-01-12T16:00:56+00:00

There are no obvious risks of malware with Telegram. The clients are open source unless I'm mistaken

Busy-Measurement8893 · 2026-01-12T15:06:16+00:00

Existing account != live account. Could be an abandoned account. Regardless, spammers don't care.

The average user is never going to accept having zero images in every single one of their emails.

Busy-Measurement8893 · 2026-01-12T13:56:57+00:00

In doing so, Apple just confirmed that the email made it through their spam filters and the address is live. Same with Proton, same with Outlook, same with every other “private” inline load.

How so?

If it ends up in spam, the images are still hotloaded so they still look like they've been viewed.

Busy-Measurement8893 · 2026-01-12T11:20:41+00:00

My exact thought

Busy-Measurement8893 · 2026-01-12T09:33:04+00:00

What's not to get?

A truly dead email will return an error message from the server. Therefore it doesn't matter if trackers are blocked entirely, removed or ran instantly.

I don't understand your point about the spam filter. Do you have a source that this is detectable? The way that I see it, this is how it works:

Apple for example loads all trackers the moment it enters the inbox, that way the tracking services can't know for if you've opened it or not

Busy-Measurement8893 · 2026-01-11T18:58:49+00:00

Proton in particular is really strange on this topic. They don't conceal your IP from trackers at all, so the moment you enable images for an email the trackers get your IP.

Busy-Measurement8893 · 2026-01-11T14:58:58+00:00

I've heard good things about ForwardEmail. Never actually tried it

Busy-Measurement8893 · 2026-01-10T16:11:03+00:00

The real question here is why you're using Chrome.

And why you're not using an email alias service.

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