“Politically active” yet knows nothing about Cambridge Analytica 15 years ago. 🤦🏼

A friend of mine spends upward of $1000/mo on food delivery.

Like what the hell?

Oh, and a network security friend once said “I don’t care about being watched by Facebook, etc, I want the convenience”. 🤦🏼

Having the ability to test drinks this simply is somehow a negative to you. What a weird take.

Have you ever even drank alcohol, or been in an environment where this occurs?

There’s a vast difference between getting drunk and how incapacitated these drugs make someone. They can even just seem drunk, for a while - at least until their attacker gets them away from the crowd, which is much easier when a drug incapacitates someone so suddenly.

This isn’t a theses defense, so stop with the sophistry.

Divide what?

Lemmy isn’t a monolithic thing, how would that be divided?

Their claim that they dropped sms support because engineering costs causes me to question them.

There are free sms apps. Android handles SMS, an app just reads/writes the SMS database via an API.

Phone numbers are heavily tied to a person.

What signal had going for it is encryption, but that major flaw of tied to phone number makes me doubt everything else they say.

The phone number link means forward security isn’t possible. If ever the encryption is hacked, all your messages could be forfeit by anyone who’s simply kept the encrypted data.

Anyone related to anyone with 23andme gets a clone!

Unfortunately most people (even technical people) don’t think that hard, or can’t be bothered.

I said this as early as 2010, and my technical peers (I’m in IT) called me paranoid.

EVERY vendor does this, I can’t imagine why you’d think otherwise.

I can go to a vendor I bought one piece of hardware from 20 years ago, and just give them my name, phone number, anything, and they can find my orders.

My local community theater has a record of me buying tickets from them, one time, 15 years ago.

No, you don’t have to register to use a warranty. There’s federal consumer regs in the US that doesn’t allow this.

You don’t have to register - a warranty exists regardless of registration.

If course you’ll have to give your name and address to use the warranty.

What does your company use for IT services? Do you call Bob In A Truck? Or do you have a relationship with a Small Business IT consulting firm that understands proper long-term management?

Hopefully it’s the latter (or even an MSP) - they’ll (hopefully) have some experience here (it really depends, better consultants have the focus, some just implement what you tell them to implement).

No worries, you still added useful info to the subject.

It’s quite a challenge to wade through all the different tools today. Used to be you found a solution and went with it. Today it’s always changing, with your favorite tool getting changed in some crappy way, making you find something new. It’s tiresome.

Check out Teleguard from SwissCow.

I haven’t seen an analysis of their privacy claims, so I’m not really sure (so when I say check it out, maybe you’ll find info that I haven’t).

What I know is I like how the connect new device process works - you essentially restore a backup to a new device, which requires the user ID (not your user name) and a code. Which likely means individual device data isn’t sitting in the open somewhere.

They have a free and a paid tier, which they seem to be marketing toward business.

They claim messages are ephemeral on their servers, but I haven’t found a third-party analysis of them, which is disappointing.

I’ve found Telegram performance to be excellent.

As for privacy with it… I wouldn’t trust it overly much. Which is frustrating, because from a performance standpoint it’s solid. Messages show up instantly, on all devices, Android, iOS, Windows, etc.

I wouldn’t consider Zoom to be privacy minded at all.

I just block everything out of the gate. The harder a site is to use, the less likely I’ll use it.

Helps keep me from useless browsing too

I switched from a major nationwide bank to a local credit union. Why the F did I stay with that garbage so long?

When from paying hundreds a year to getting some tiny interest.

the purpose of doing as you request with the content you input in Firefox"

Lol, replaced one bit of ambiguous rationalization with another, which holds no weight anyway. When it comes down to it, you’ll use any collected data any way you wish to do whatever you want, and thumb tour nose at the users who helped you get there.

Nah, you stepped all in it on this one, and really exposed yourself and your intentions, especially since many of us have been around since before WWW even existed.

Firefox is becoming Microsoft Office for the Mac. And if you don’t understand that, you probably weren’t alive at the time.

I’d send this to Mozilla/FF, but it’s a waste of bits.

Time to start blocking all FF domains and IP addresses. Just like Facebook.