Big limitation with privacy.com is that it requires US bank account.

My bad. The article didn’t mention the license, but they compared it to Bridgefy so I assumed it was the same crap.

Sounds like it will be proprietary alternative to Briar.

UK is literally cutting benefits from disabled people at the moment to generate some cash.

Your assumption that I use Google products was your first mistake…

Probably not entirely bullshit. There are research to collaborate this:

• https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/security/a42575068/scientists-use-wifi-to-see-through-walls/
• https://www.vice.com/en/article/scientists-are-getting-eerily-good-at-using-wifi-to-see-people-through-walls-in-detail/
• https://www.tomshardware.com/news/wi-fi-routers-used-to-detect-human-locations-poses-within-a-room

Steam data is probably the most comprehensive stats we have for that.

https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey?platform=pc

Real life is crazier than anything writters can come up with.

We are getting closer to every website having a paywall. And shit like this will just lead to more spam sites popping that just have pages upon pages of LLM generated content so that they can get a payout.

Is this dystopian enough?

So people like LLM generated music, they just have issue with it not being labelled correctly.

Any company operating in any country has to comply with their laws. The difference is that Signal has almost no data to share to comply. Message content and metadata is encrypted so they have no access to it. Your phone number is the only identifier they have and would be obligated by law to share.

<…> all our information.

The fucked up thing is that just not using Facebook or other Meta services doesn’t solve the issue. They track you across the web with unique fingerprinting even if never had an account with them and they also tie the data to you from people around you that might upload or share something about you to their services.

https://gizmodo.com/popular-tech-news-site-the-verge-goes-behind-a-paywall-2000533570

Title is shit. What the judge meant by this is:

It’s possible that authors may be able to show evidence that Meta “contributed to the BitTorrent network” by providing significant computing power that could’ve meaningfully assisted shadow libraries, Chhabria said in a footnote.

Which is unlikely.

<…> appease privacy-focused users <…>

Appease? That’s the word you use for people caring about privacy? Seriously? Pathetic corporate ghoul.

Source code: https://github.com/proginosko/LeechBlockNG

Indeed. Google decided to fuck everyone over like always against the wishes of the main developer.

AVIF is pretty universally supported at this point. JPEG XL just lacks browser support because Google, prefers to push their own .webp and Mozilla is not interested in supporting any non AI focused standards these days.

Exactly why monopoly power is killer of innovation.

Even with the new spec PNG is far behind new standards like AVIF or JPEG XL.