Is your kink getting watched over the shoulder by a big oily fat guy that sweats and breaths through the mouth? Ah and it tries to convince you the buy useless shit
God when the whole Tiktok thing in Congress was going on nobody wanted to hear that their favorite big tech social media app was already selling information to China; had been caught doing so multiple times; and had never stopped despite promises and threats of prosecution the next time.
WHAT information? What does China gain by learning that Sparky Douchebag watches BBQ and catgirl fapping videos? Are they planning their invasion based on the Heathers Challenge, or simply stealing our makeup tips?
Look into the research that has proven that the app has backdoors baked in, and combine that with how widespread it is - reaching every level of society; every industry, politician, branch and level of the military. Now remember that research into the Spyware activities of the app.
TikTok is the largest, most successful self-inflicted virus for SigInt ever. [citation needed]
You cannot put custom firmware. If spyware is hidden in drivers, bootloader or even firmware of the modem there is nothing we can do about it.
Custom ROMs are just replacing things above the kernel and below apps.
Still of course things average non CIA person should not worry about. Google apps with high privileges are removed with custom ROMs.
As a person that has been rooting his phone since 2011/12, I wanna go back to those years. Graphene and lineage have not satisfied my itch and having to keep magisking every few weeks sucks. I miss my galaxy, nexus rooting days.
I can't ever go back after moving to Vivaldi, even though it's chromium. It's the tiniest of reasons too, like full screen behavior, the gargantuan UI elements, the continuous removal of customization options...
I can set Vivaldi to:
F1 = show/hide info bar
F2 = show/hide address bar
F3 = show/hide tab bar
F4 = instant fullscreen
F5 = sidebar that's actually useful
The bookmark and history tabs are actually usable, the Quick Command popup bar functions like Vimium, and there's more customization options than you can shake a stick at.
I say this as a Firefox user who has not changed browsers since it was literally called "Mozilla" and competed with "Mosaic" and "Netscape Navigator" for top position as THE web browser to surf Internet portals.
I love FF to pieces, but it's simply not usable to me under the current management.
I just tried out Floorp which is basically Firefox with some Vivaldi features. I was like oh okay I get the appeal now. I have to take Vivaldi for a test drive.
I still use discord, can't just leave gaming with my friends and I already look too much like a paranoid to convince them to switch to matrix or another FLOSS service
It would be whataboutism if the argument would be one is okay because of the other. It isn't whataboutism if the argument is that both are unacceptable.
Thank you. I’m so sick of people equating whataboutism with pointing out hypocrisy. Do they want societal acceptance of hypocrisy? Or do they just like to use the new words they learned, like calling every jerk a narcissist?