I would rather put my trust in a good VPN provider than the big CAs. And HTTPS only and DoH is not going to protect you from fingerprinting using your IP address.
And how exactly do you imagine this "decolonization"? I always hear these slogans such as "land back" but nobody ever elaborates what stuff like that actually means, so I come to the conclusion that either it is just another empty slogan so "progressives" can feel good about themselves or what they have in mind is basically ethnic cleansing and they don't want to say that (out loud).
If you want to defend against fingerprinting, you should use multiple browsers to segment your browsing activity, not depend on one browser to have some kind of Wunderwaffen against fingerprinting. The idea is to not have your real identity tied to parts of your browsing activity that you want to keep private.
Personally, I do use Vivaldi as one of my browsers. I use it for accessing Apple services (e.g. iCloud Drive and Mail), but it is not one of my main browsers.
How is LineageOS without all the Google spyware not significantly different from a regular Google Android phone, of which you in the US at least cannot even unlock the bootloader of, let alone install an official Lineage OS port? Also, this is a $300 device, not a $1000 one. Just because you can buy a Pixel and, if you make sure you buy the correct one at least, can unlock the bootloader and install a custom ROM if you have the skills and knowledge (and time) to do so, does not make this phone a "scam".
It is kind of relevant that he has some relevant experience for becoming the deputy director of the FBI. Now, some people don't like cops, the FBI or his politics, but that's a different discussion entirely.
There is a big difference between a product that is sold at a substantial premium and an actual scam. A scam would be someone selling some cheap Chinese phone rebranded as a privacy phone without any significant differences from a regular Google Android at $1000. This is clearly not that.
Yes, but where can you buy that Y28s with an AOSP ROM out of the box? Can you even install an AOSP ROM on it? Furthermore, those Asian phones likely will not work with US VoLTE. The whole point of this phone is that it is a solution for people who do not want to deal with flashing another ROM and want something that "just works". Rob Braxman also sells Pixels with AOSP ROMs (previously CalyxOS, now something else, I believe). The point is not getting the best value or the most revolutionary or amazing device ever.
Merz won the German election. Here’s what it means for Europe [privacy].
>The party manifesto also outlined a sweeping change of course in terms of data protection policy, encouraging more “pragmatic” rules that allow data to be used for innovation and growth, as well as law enforcement.
I normally don't read it but another poster sometimes shares some of their articles on World News and I don't think their world view exactly aligns with that of Axel Springer. Their articles sometimes can contain quite revealing information, so I think they should be read critically. I am running an ad blocker anyway so it is not like they are getting revenue from me.
Who is Friedrich Merz? Meet Europe’s most powerful leader as US turns its back
>Friedrich Merz is set to become Germany’s most American chancellor.
>Never in history has a German head of government had more affinity for the United States. Merz has traveled to the U.S. over 100 times, by his own tally, and counts former U.S. President Ronald Reagan as one of his role models.
>Merz became a conservative member of the European Parliament in 1989, the year the Berlin Wall fell. Five years later he was elected to the German Bundestag, where he developed a close relationship with Wolfgang Schäuble, the CDU stalwart and forceful advocate of European Union integration. Under Schäuble’s tutelage, Merz rose in stature and was considered a likely choice for chancellor candidate.
>His rise ended in 2002, however, when he lost a power struggle with the more centrist Angela Merkel.
>Seeing no role for himself in the CDU under Merkel, Merz withdrew to the back benches, and in the midst of the world financial crisis of 2008 published a paean to free markets titled “Dare for More Capitalism.” A year later he left the Bundestag to work as a corporate lawyer while also taking the helm of Atlantik-Brücke, a lobby advocating transatlantic ties.
>While with Atlantik-Brücke, Merz pushed for an EU-U.S. trade agreement — the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, or TTIP — and forged closer connections with the U.S., networking with American politicians and corporate leaders.
>Over a decade in the private sector, Merz sat on a series of corporate boards, including a four-year stint with U.S. asset manager BlackRock, a time he counts as among the happiest in his life, according to biographer Resing. Merz says this time provided him valuable experience outside of politics, but his critics accuse him of simply using his political connections to lobby for powerful interests, making himself a millionaire in the process.
>Though Merz and his conservatives emerged victorious in Sunday’s election, surveys suggest he’s not particularly popular among the public.
>In a country that remains deeply skeptical of the financial industry, Merz’s wealth and time at BlackRock, the American investment company, are often viewed with suspicion.
>Merz has also vowed to make “deals” with Trump. In an interview last month he suggested Germany could endear itself to Trump by buying American F-35 fighter jets and boosting defense spending to put Germany consistently above the NATO spending target of 2 percent of gross domestic product. Despite the U.S. president’s love of tariffs, Merz also floated trying to bring back negotiations on TTIP, which collapsed during the first Trump administration.
>In an interview the following day, Merz warned that Europe should prepare for Trump to end NATO protection and hinted at a major strategic shift, saying Germany needed to discuss the possibility of “nuclear sharing, or at least nuclear security” with European nuclear powers the United Kingdom and France. German conservatives have previously favored maintaining strong ties with the U.S. over calls from Paris to cultivate European “strategic autonomy.”
>Merz has expressed a willingness to do so, but the way forward remains murky.
>“Within this Europe, Germany must play a leading role,” Merz said at the rally in Hesse. “We must take on this responsibility. I, for one, am determined to do so.”>
Imagine if half of liberal America was prosecuted for calling Trump "orange cheeto" or saying he has small hands. WTF is this even.
How does Monero particularly help American money launderers as opposed to money launderers in general? Also, very strange to go look through someone's comment history so you can use that to make some unrelated remark...
I just did some quick research on Matrix and it is even worse than I thought LOL. It was literally developed by a company that was originally founded in Israel and suspected by two different non-allied governments of espionage for the Mossad. And that is just what I could find within a couple minutes on Wikipedia.
Their contractor Amazon explained the importance of monitoring employee productivity.
will continue until Russia goes home.
absolutely delusional. Even the head of Ukrainian military intelligence has said that Ukraine could cease to exist by summer if a change in course isn't made. But NAFO shills on the internet are still living in their bubble, I guess.
cash benefits money launderers as well. What kind of argument is this even? I guess the government should just be able to track all your transactions all the time? Reminder that the government that is in power at the time in a given country decides what is and isn't "illegal".
So just because people you don't like express concern about something means that it automatically must be false? This type of "logic" is very dangerous. And prosecution clearly does happen a lot. Literally 10 cases a day in one German state according to the article and only 0.5 of those cases actually result in conviction, which means that clearly this is used to intimidate and punish people generally rather than a sincere attempt to enforce the law.
The article focuses on Lower Saxony, which is in West Germany. These cases are not about inciting violence or denying a genocide but about saying something about a politician that that person doesn't like. Many American liberals would be prosecuted under these laws right now for the stuff that is said on e.g. Reddit, presumably BlueSky and Lemmy.world. Reminder that this sort of stuff also affects pro-Palestine activists and in fact from what I gather that is in fact the case in Germany today.
Hope you went to a credit union.
Glad I am not banking with any of them.
But do they actually work with US carriers (VoLTE)?
Don't buy a TV anymore. Seriously though with the direction things have been going in the "tech world" for the last couple years (maybe even decade) it is probably better to start adjusting to some level of digital minimalism. For some of us it will become a necessity for financial reasons anyway...