Firstly, that sounds like a shit situation to be in, so please don’t think I’m dismissing your struggles here.
I don’t live in the same country as you and I have no power to even slightly affect your political situation. I read enough bad news about stuff that I at least have a chance to get involved in that sometimes I want to read some funnies on the internet without having to read about another shit situation. It’s not because I don’t care, it’s because it’s not worth stressing out further about something I cannot do anything about.
So yeah, that’s why people don’t want so see US politics everywhere. Just because something is very important doesn’t mean it’s very important to everyone.
I use ad blockers and open source privacy focused software whenever I can but occasionally I have to use computers that don’t belong to me or an older phone where my usual applications aren’t installed and seeing all the advertisements just feels dirty and dystopian....
Can you not install uBlock Origin on your work machine? I’d argue that it will improve your productivity and reduce the chance of losing the company’s info to trackers and the like!
As the other commenter said it’s about the hardware really. I tested it out on a really old device first to make sure it actually worked - it did but at a glacially slow pace. The new box is pretty snappy though!
Tangentially related, I recently replaced my Chromecast with a “Chromecast with Google TV”. It’s an Android TV box which you can install SmartTube on and cast YouTube with no ads. Yes, I am aware of the irony of paying Google for new hardware instead of paying them for their ad-free service, but the new device cost less than 2 months of YouTube Premium and I like tinkering.
No I think you’ve missed their point. E2EE is end-to-end encryption, as in the message can’t be intercepted in the middle but it’s unencrypted at the end so you can read it. Because the WhatsApp app is closed-source you don’t know that it doesn’t immediately read the message and send the content to Facebook. It probably doesn’t, but it could! E2EE itself means that some third party can’t read your message in transit, though to be fair closed-source again means we just have to trust Facebook when they say WhatsApp uses E2EE.
Tried to use OSMAnd last week to navigate around on vacation. For some reason it seems to be incapable of searching for house numbers, which is an instant dealbreaker. I’m very confused as to how or why this is a thing on such a mature product....
When I get a message in signal that that it has specific wording that would make someone think that it’s a task then I get a notification to save it to keep how is Google doing this are they reading my signal my messages
Assuming this is on an android phone with the normal Google Play Services on it then you should expect that Google can theoretically read anything that appears on it. It’s probably not that sinister though, I don’t imagine anything is being sent away and logged (though it theoretically could be!), there’s probably just some process which reads every incoming notification and if it thinks it sounds like a task then it offers you the prompt. Is this some setting you haven’t disabled in Google Assistant?
Every third post on Lemmy (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
Need a politics-free safe space? It’s called “going for a walk”
Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome (arstechnica.com)
I've been blocking ads for so long that actually seeing them feels perverse
I use ad blockers and open source privacy focused software whenever I can but occasionally I have to use computers that don’t belong to me or an older phone where my usual applications aren’t installed and seeing all the advertisements just feels dirty and dystopian....
What was supposed to be "The Next Big Thing!" but flopped?
As a car enthusiast, I can think of a good one, the Ford Nucleon....
WhatsApp will soon be your one-stop solution for all your chat apps (www.androidpolice.com)
SUMMARY...
All of Japan's Toyota Assembly Plants Shut Down for a Day Because Their Server Ran Out of Disk Space (www.reuters.com)
A closer look at e/OS: Murena's privacy-first 'deGoogled' Android alternative - TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
Valve’s next mystery gadget may be imminent (www.theverge.com)
What is something that can be considered as bad as smoking, but people still do it anyways?
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What's your favorite OpenStreetMaps app?
Tried to use OSMAnd last week to navigate around on vacation. For some reason it seems to be incapable of searching for house numbers, which is an instant dealbreaker. I’m very confused as to how or why this is a thing on such a mature product....
Google reading signal messages?
When I get a message in signal that that it has specific wording that would make someone think that it’s a task then I get a notification to save it to keep how is Google doing this are they reading my signal my messages
Why there aren't ad blocking apps on Google Play (adguard.com)
The article is AdGuard centric but it sheds light on the whole process where Google suddenly decided to ban ad blockers.
A new way to discover apps and games on Google Play (blog.google)