LemmyNameMyself @ LemmyNameMyself @lemmy.world

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But it doesn't matter what you put on the canvas - the point is that you are driving up engagement and that's exactly what Reddit wants

If you don't want to use Signal, use a forked version of it - Session (doesn't require a phone number, only has a code number as id) or SimpleX Chat (not even a code number, completely private)

So "setting the bird free" is changed to "getting rid of the bird", got it

No, but Jerboa is also AGPL-licensed, Thunder is under MIT and Liftoff under GPL

Website

F-droid download link

The best way to protest is to not participate

Infinity

still works though I have been getting a lot of load errors

If an app is ok - Kotatsu

I mean, no suprise there, every country calls out every other country on that. It's only OK for the American goverment agencies to spy on Americans.

Every country has survaillance, US just makes the most noise with laws being passed. It's the principle that matters - once other countries see that a certain law allows them to monitor people more closely, they'll want to pass their version of that law. Australia is basically a Police State, UK also has very privacy-invasive laws.

You didn't say it, yes. But established survaillance can be countered by encrypted messanging apps, so the next logical step is to ban them. In fact, the US has been trying to do so for a long time now and the same excuse is always given - "think of the children". There's a video by Louis Rossmann and another one by Mental Outlaw, both going into detail about why this is just that, an excuse. Survaillance isn't normal and should not be normalised.

not a drug connoisseur.

wants all drugs banned because "drugs > bad"

drugs are much more complex than "doing them is bad" and banning encrypted messanging apps and implementing surveillance does very little in terms of capturing pedos, while people who use them for legitamate reasons are screwed over

"bUt ThiNk oF thE cHildrEn!!1!1" is not an excuse for surveillance

You can help Aurora by making more accounts to combat rate limmiting

but apart from that I don't really know how to help - almost all my apps are from F-droid

For me Aurora still kind of works, although I often get the "Rate Limmited Account" message.

You can set Aurora as the handler of Play Store links in settings, that's not affected by rate limmiting, if that stops working just download apk files directly from websites

Default OSs are very invasive. Windows, Mac and iOS are constantly spying on everything you do and stock Android is only as private as the apps it comes with which include things like Google Play Services - an app so baked into the system it can only be disabled through adb/root

If you want to read into this - Louis Rossmann made a video on this and this is the paper he mentioned.

possible for the average person who doesn't feel comfortable messing with installing operating systems to have any privacy?

Yes, depends on how far you are willing to take it.

Replace default apps with FOSS (F-droid)

Delete or disable defaut apps through developer options/adb

Limit the number of permissions you give to apps (your calculator shouldn't have access to internet or your camera)

Don't install apps that you don't trust/need

Block app's access to the internet with a firewall

Check out r/degoogle on Reddit for many useful resources

For Windows/iOS, etc.: change settings to be more private: give less permissions and turn off telemetry wherever possible.

If you think that's not enough, consider dual booting a Linux distro like Linux Mint Cinnamon (easy to set up and very beginer-friendly). If you do that you can learn Linux and keep your private data there instead of on Windows/iOS

Oh, no! Not being removed from a voluntary unpaid job that saves Reddit millions every year!