Another good piece by the EFF. Its an important message to write about to your gov’t representatives if it resonates with what you feel is the way forward with regards to the misguided “internet safety” laws so many countries are trying to pass right now
Really liking Vivaldi so far. The baked in adblocking and encrypted syncing is neat. Everybody also always recommends Brave as “good out of the box” where you can use it straight away without any tinkering…
I understand the developer, but the complete lack of communication with the community is appalling. and even the subsequent app updates to ad-supported/tracker-packed versions is just disgusting. i understand why tibbi burned out, but the sale process was handled in extremely poor way
“However, we want to assure you that you are not at risk of anything similar with our apps. Instead, we bet on transparency and a fair approach to users … It is a small one-time fee that will ensure you use our apps forever – with no ads and no access to your data” 😂😐
Generally, this is the shot over the bow that indicates to companies a given area of society or economy is no longer open season, and to start tempering actions and/or otherwise preparing defense or increasing lobby to inevitably force through weak regulations surrounding it. Gov gets to say it’s regulating and companies are happy they keep the key pieces of their exploitive model.
Bruce Schneier is also probably just a conspiracy theorist, when he writes in 2014:
"By the way, the Register noted that Whisper Systems (along with Tor and several other privacy projects) received $450,000 from Radio Free Asia – which is pretty much an official State Department / CIA propaganda organ, isn’t it? How exactly does this work as a coherent national security strategy, when State is funding ‘privacy’ while NSA is funding eavesdropping? opentechfund.org/…/otf2013annualreportfinal.pdf"
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