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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

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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

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user12043 Sep 21, 2025

@itsfoss MS Office -> LibreOffice