Not all people are rich enough to have iPhones. And if you really want privacy, you wouldn’t go for one anyway, instead choosing Graphene/Divest/Lineage. Not to mention iMessage is fully closed-source so you cannot even trust it to do what it does. I have issues wirh Signal, but at least I would take it over iMessage any day.
I highly doubt that “ending crypto crackdown” would mean guaranteeing safety for projects like Samourai or Localmonero. Or ending the relationship with Chainalysis.
To be fair, the idea of “alternative to banking” is still very much alive. BTC and LTC are very much used as currencies, even though BTC has fees too high for small transactions. Monero was developed specifically with utility rather than investment in mind - now reading about how exactly anonymity is enforced there (especially after the Chainalysis leaks), it’s pretty interesting. I kinda hope we invent something better than blockchain-based currencies that is equivalent in uncensorability, but right now it’s the closest we got.
I much prefer Newpipe, which has been amazing so far.
I wouldn’t trust them not to store the initial one as well tbh. Nothing technically stops that and it’s in their interests.
From the context of your previous comments, it seemed like you were talking not about not having a mobile phone in general, but rather a SIMless phone. Using it over Wi-Fi only is indeed doable - but you’d need an Airplane Mode on an OS you can trust, just having no SIM would not be enough.
Also no, I did not have such a job - I don’t understand how this question relates to the conversation.
Yeah, Brave has even worse track record than stock Firefox.
Yeah, but the operator would see an identifiable IMEI.
I also have not seen Zcash accepted as payment nowhere nearly as frequently as Monero.
An IMEI moving around.
You’re just shifting trust though - may be good in some cases, but not universal. Aldo does nothing about the cell tower connections tracking the location.
In a lot of places, cell carriers enforce KYC too though.
Although it’s the only place I’ve seen that leaves a chunk of silence while the ad plays.
At least when it came to a laptop, I bought mine without a preinstalled OS - that is far more common than preinstalled Linux.
Well, I am pretty sure the FOSS apps I use don’t have external trackers at least.
Or, better, not use a car at all because automated license plate readers. Cars seem antithetical to anonymity in general. Better take a tram/bus/subway and buy tickets with cash. Or at least call a taxi if it’s really far from any transport stops.
Welll yeah - point was that they installed a service without consent. And not just a browser feature, but something crossing a whole another boundary. AFAIK also, while the tunnel itself was not enabled, the service itself was turned on automatically.
Also doesn’t do cosmetic filtering - like, it would remove the ad, but not the HTML box that used to contain it.
From what I understand, the limit on the lists is not the only problem with it - my main concerns are a) lists only being able to update together with the extension itself and b) some features apparently being fundamentally disallowed, like the element picker I am dependent on.
I used to use Vanced but switched to Newpipe, as it is noticeably lighter (also at least for me, downloads did not properly work while they were fine on Newpipe).