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BearOfaTime, to privacy in Predirect: A manifest v3 web extension with minimal permissions to automatically redirect popular sites to privacy friendly frontends

Lol, wow. What kind of BS is that?

May have been useful, say 15 years ago. Even then machines were plenty powerful.

BearOfaTime, to longreads in What Really Happened to JFK?

It’s so odd so many people still believe the Warren Commission when another commission about 1973 ruled there were at least two shooters, one in front on the grassy knoll.

The first doctors to treat him documented an entrance wound at his trachea.

BearOfaTime, to privacy in Why Even Your Local Grocery Store Wants Your Digital Data

It’s interesting to me to see articles about this now, when the first rewards card I saw (every bit of 20 years ago) it was obvious why they would give you such steep discounts for using nothing more than a free card.

BearOfaTime, to privacy in YouTube adds tracking parameters to shared URLs that can be traced back to individual Google accounts

Adds?

I thought they always had them?

BearOfaTime, to piracy in Beeper Mini

Signal is more secure.

It’s nowhere near as convenient as Telegram, the clients on each OS are at best OK.

Show me conversation history when I login to Signal desktop. Oh, yea, it doesn’t do that. Is there even a web login?

From a typical user standpoint, Signal looks like text messaging, and that matters to them. And it’s not simple to manage.

Signal is coming along, and I look forward to when it’s mature enough that I can get people to use it (again). But they also made a massive mistake in dropping SMS support. That was my best tool to get people to switch. When they dropped SMS, those folks all left signal.

BearOfaTime, to piracy in Beeper Mini

Really, it’s a lie that I’ve heard from people I know?

We have people of all ages in our family, and we hear the bubble issue, especially from younger folks.

Please tell me again how it’s a lie.

BearOfaTime, to piracy in Beeper Mini

I’d be shocked if Apple’s leadership hasn’t contracted a hitman yet.

Hahahahaha

It’s definitely shining a light on the limitations of iMessage, especially how imperfect it’s encryption is, so yea, that’s the kind of thing that hits a little close to home.

BearOfaTime, to privacy in Verizon Gave Phone Data to Armed Stalker Who Posed as Cop Over Email

Wow. Wtf Verizon?

Also, wtf psychopath? How did you think you wouldn’t get caught?

BearOfaTime, to piracy in How do you manage your photos and videos?

Sounds like something I need to get… Off to github I go! (I assume)

BearOfaTime, to piracy in How do you manage your photos and videos?

Is that self-hosted software?

BearOfaTime, (edited ) to piracy in Beeper Mini
  1. Discord sucks
  2. If you can get my friends/family to switch to anything else I’m on board.

You act like we haven’t tried to get people to switch. Even Android users. People can’t be arsed to change because they don’t see the problem.

I’ve gotten 1 person to switch away from SMS to Telegram, because it has clients for every OS. That makes it convenient, and it can do a lot more.

BearOfaTime, (edited ) to piracy in Beeper Mini

IPhone users have a weird obsession with Blue bubbles. The rest of us find it childish and annoying. They refuse to use any messenger other than iMessage.

I have a friend, not currently on iPhone, who was having trouble with SMS (note that SMS has a known message failure rate of about 10%+). He refused to switch to another messaging app, doesn’t want to have multiple places to message from. 🤦‍♂️

This is the mindset of iMessage obsessors. Frankly I see it as pretty juvenile. They don’t want to put effort into solving a problem.

This same person always has dozens of notifications sitting in the notification shade. Stuff you just don’t need to see, that Android lets you silence. Or just app notifications. Well no wonder he doesn’t want another messenger, with that much garbage he wouldn’t know he got a new message.

BearOfaTime, to piracy in Beeper Mini

They haven’t blocked any other third party apps using iMessage.

I don’t really think they want to. It’s kind of like pirating - more people are using the service.

BearOfaTime, to piracy in Beeper Mini

Wow, good for them!

BearOfaTime, to piracy in Beeper Mini

Apple hasn’t shut down any other iMessage system, not the original bluebubbles.

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