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Cake day: July 13th, 2023
  • bad_news@lemmy.billiam.nettoPrivacy@lemmy.ml•Is Signal messaging really private?
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    7 days ago

    Signal is in F-Droid and works completely degoogled on Graphene with no Google Play. The annoyance is no notifications, but if you’re rolling completely Google Play free, you’re probably used to needing to just check several things a day for lack of notifications on multiple apps, since everyone under the sun is trying to shovel all your notification contents to Google (I assume for bribes of some sort from Google).

  • bad_news@lemmy.billiam.nettoPrivacy@lemmy.ml•Are private email providers worth it?
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    12 days ago

    Well, the way I see it is it’s like taking candy from someone who says “I put razorblades in this candy” versus somebody who says “I did not put razors in this candy.” Sure, maybe the latter is lying but are you going to pick the former? There’s really no viable way to run your own email server with actual delivery anymore, and it’s clearnet in transit anyway, so I don’t really see the downside in “trusting” Proton or another provider enough to pick that over Google. To get any benefit, you would need to move things over though. If you’re unwilling to do that work, the reality is you’re just on Google and Microsoft and training their AIsand it is what it is. If you think about it, though, even if you move half of your logins to Proton or Tuta or whatever instead of Google, you are depriving them of half of what they know about you going forward.