I can see that if this were verified and true, with hard evidence provided, a big investigative news agency like The Guardian, would get their teeth of this and stick it on their headline pages. I think there is a lot of crap and conspiracy theories on the Internet and I still believe in true investigative jounalism. As a society, we are changing our habits, trusting social media rather that true journalism. This is why people like the orange man in the US and his pals in Israel an Russia are f***ing up the world. We are all falling for it …

These look really interesting

Good shout. I hadn’t thought of the hotspot option although I wanted to relegate WhatsApp to the burner phone as I just use it for kids school.

The problem is that many banks are using mobile phones 2FA devices and they don’t allow other means. I asked why I couldn’t go back to SMS as 2FA and they said that they deem it to be insecure.

Yes, I’ve been thinking about a burner phone but difficult to find pay as you go sims these days here. You end up in some form of contract. There you go … You want privacy, you have to pay for it. Wtf! We’ll soon be screwed altogether. They’ll soon ban non-stock ROMs too … Not long till this happens …

Surely that can’t be true if you live in the EU. GDPR would screw them.

There are a couple of dependencies that I will find hard to get rid of like bank authentication. Its getting really hard to find banks that will allow 2FA via methods that don’t require the app.

Molly.im does not have a lot of documentation. Does it equally rely on a centralised server? If it does, then surely one of the downsides is that there probably isn’t a huge foundation behind it ensuring the bills are paid, etc. Or is it that Molly is piggy backing on Signal servers? And is the Signal Foundation happy to be have Molly users using its services? How long before Signal Foundation kicks Molly users off it servers?

Also I note u can download two different version: one with Google blobs and one without. What compromise do I have to make if I choose the Google version?

Its the first time i hear about Molly … Cant believe i didnt know about it

Thanks, how strange when I searched for it in fdroid it didn’t come up 🤔

Is there a reason for CoMaps not being on fdroid? I must be missing other app stores. For example, Accretium (a privacy appstore?) is not on fdroid.

Wow, this is impressive. I had heard about profiles but never got into the detail and never really understood the benefit. So, a cool way of using this it to have a FOSS only space under the main admin profile and the build up a second “big brother” profile where I stack some annoying apps that in a way or another I’m forced to use like banking app and what’s app. When the “big brother” profile is shut down, nobody tracks you. Would that be correct? If this is true I’m here asking myself why on earth people are not harnessing this more.

I nave ho learn how ho do these two profile things. How do u switch between them, and IS it on the fly?

Well then you still haven’t got rid of it 🙂

Well, this is the point. Eradication may ne unachievable but that doesn’t mean we have to stop breaking the chains. Its like saying Israel wants to wipe out Palestine and the rest of the world just watches (which is exactly what is happening unfortunately). We are surrounding our lives to those with power and money. As humanity, we need to find some lost dignity. We need to defend human dignity, and that comprises the right to privacy.

Sureley google pay/Apple pay IS eventi worse

Interesting discussion going on here 🙂 sounds like this is pretty new and as I had suspected doesn’t seem to be well documented. If its just another Tuta, I wonder why they think they’ll be better at succeeding where others haven’t.

It used to be a breaze with linux, mozilla and AirVPN up till a few years ago. Now, it’s almost impossible to navigate the web, use public authority websites without having to disable VPN and all the privacy focused plugins of Mozilla. It makes you realise how invasive the internet has become. Even for people in this group that are above average aware of privacy risks, its just so hard. The internet would have to be redesigned by privacy conscious people but that will never happen as big tech would see their interests at risk and would strongly oppose. How do you get people to switch to Simple X Chat when I struggle to get them to use Signal.

Bangle.JS seems interesting and more capable than Watchy. But guess the latter’s battery lasts longer because of sink screen?

But setting up a VPN on a VPS is not really going to do much for privacy is it? It wouldn’t take much to work out who is renting the VPS and the VPS has no incentive to hold back any info if a they were issued a search warrant.

Feels like it becoming more and more challenging living on the Internet without leaving breadcrumbs all over the place.