Mastodawn

user12043 Dec 21

Tuta Nov 28

🚨 Google wants to kill Android freedom: Starting 2027, unverified apps can’t be DOWNLOADED.

➡️ No installation of independent apps

➡️ Destroys alternative playstores like F-Droid

➡️ Google decides what runs on YOUR phone

Help us fight this plan! ✊

https://tuta.com/blog/google-wants-to-kill-android-freedom

user12043 Dec 17

Signal Dec 17

If you’ve felt safer sending a message because you sent it on Signal, please support our work. As a nonprofit, Signal exists because of your donations.

In the app: Settings > Donate
On the web: https://signal.org/donate/

Donate to Signal Private Messenger

Your donation helps pay for the development, servers, and bandwidth of an app used by millions around the world for private and instantaneous communication. Please make a donation today.

Signal Messenger

user12043 Dec 16

nixCraft 🐧Dec 16

WTF? 8 million users' AI conversations sold for profit by "Privacy" extensions https://www.koi.ai/blog/urban-vpn-browser-extension-ai-conversations-data-collection

8 Million Users' AI Conversations Sold for Profit by "Privacy" Extensions

Privacy browser extensions misled users and sold 8 million AI chat logs, exposing sensitive conversations for profit without consent.

user12043 Dec 13

Khrys Dec 13

So this is a good reminder : what ever you got on Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta & co is not your property. It is theirs.

And they can remove the whole of it in the flash of an eye for whatever reason appears to occur ⬇️

20 Years of Digital Life, Gone in an Instant, thanks to Apple

https://hey.paris/posts/appleid/

20 Years of Digital Life, Gone in an Instant, thanks to Apple

Summary: A major brick-and-mortar store sold an Apple Gift Card that Apple seemingly took offence to, and locked out my entire Apple ID, effectively bricking my devices and my iCloud Account, Apple …

Dr Paris Buttfield-Addison

user12043 Dec 13

Bread and Circuses May 24, 2025

This is not a joke. It’s a look at the future.

#Capitalism #Enshittification