mishimaenjoyer @ mishimaenjoyer @kbin.social

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this. they simply have to port the version they're developing for android now and we're golden. i guess it might find it's way on non-eu-devices by community builds and testflight.

i miss(ed) exactly two things on iOS: a proper imageboard reader (fixed, there are now chance and janchan) and stand alone firefox, wich is now just a matter of time.

i hope mozilla is already working on an iOS version for the EU market ;)

at that point i consider it a microsoft tradition to do the "hey, i see you're using Y, we have a similar product called Z and it's better, do you want to try it?"-routine no one asked for.

because i distrust this kind of technology in general and for sure it would add to the dystopian, anti-consumer, anti-workforce agenda big tech is currently enforcing. i work in desktop publishing and about 3/4 of jobs in that branche would be cancelled the moment ai could replace them for a fraction of the cost.

good.

welp, i guess it's over.

i agree, the problem is, that if google succeeds and (popular/mainstream) websites refuse to let said browsers access the sites, it's an uphill battle in wich we will eventually lose the normie webizens.

the EU can be really schizo when it comes to stuff like that, that's true. i don't trust them. and apple as a last hope ... well, maybe when it comes to big tech. can't think of anything better within the FAANG pantheon.

i wouldn't be so sure about it. apple strongarmed google with jpgxl support and the european union pryed open their eco system, at least for eu citizens. apple currently positioning themselves on the side of privacy advocates would lose this standing (and many customers who switched to iphone because of it). i know, they could sugarcoat this, but i have a little hope left that they will draw a line on at least the most user hostile stuff.

apple might oppose this to some point, they're often not in line with google.

oh lol

can't wait for "shellshock", "wildfire" and "collapse".

@grafcube it's very important to push back against google's browser hegenomy just like we did back in the day with microsoft because now it's not just about one company controllin the software to access the majority of the web but the privacy of it.

"I would probably drop 50 cents to read a single article from a news site" - a complete newspaper is somewhere between a dollar and three.

no, we don't. we just don't want to pay several times to read a news article: first, a paywall (often with ridiculous prices), second, with our data. news sites mostly have the most hostile cookie policies in place i have ever seen - they want to "analyze" EVERYTHING, on of the bigger news papers in my country wants to install like 20 cookies just to allow me to visit their site. and third, ads left and right, autoplay videos and a hunger for hardware like a contemporary video game. finally, let's not talk about the quality of most contemporary news outlets, somewhere inbetween buzzfeed clickbait and being a gov't spox.

i worked over a decade in one of the biggest multinational publishing houses in europe, right on time when everyting went digital and that experience haunts me to this day.

needs no phone number or any other identifyer to create an ID. you can also always delete your ID and make new ones. you don't have to let it access your phones contact list if you don't want to. like proton, it's a swiss company with the same laws apply to them. you have three levels of verification, that the contact you're chatting/talking with is the actual person - or at least the correct device: first one is none, you just have the ID, that's it. second one would be someone from your phone's contact list and the third and most safe option is to scan the QR-code from your contacts phone screen in person.

don't get me wrong, signal is a good app and i guess those behind it have good intentions, but it relies on phone numbers just like whatsapp and telegram and that's a big turnoff for me.

perfect forward secrecy was added some time ago and is the default now.