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- Comment on Why doesn't Signal forbid third party clients or at least offer a client certification program to ensure security? 4 weeks ago:
Signal forks can have unexpected behaviours like retaining deleted messages and also they don’t get updated at the same rate that Signal get updated.
There are ways to save messages before they are deleted even if the stock app is used. Do not ever rely on this feature to work in a “save” way.
Every couple of years I hear a story about hackers disturbing signal with backdoors, which would be impossible or very hard to be done If they blocked third party clients. (Ex: 1)
That is a problem the users who prefer 3rd party clients have to deal with. Obviously if you care enough to not use the official build, you of cause have to take care of using a trustworthy source. That is not “your problem” though.
The amount of people who use third party Signal clients are very few anyway.
That sounds a lot like “I don’t use it, so none else needs it either” argument. In my opinion, none of your arguments above are a good reason to combat 3rd party clients.
- Comment on Huawei's revamped Android competitor is launching with support for 10,000 apps. 1 month ago:
In addition, Huawei now blocks sideloading Android apps to promote its ecosystem growth.
Well looks like I’m never going to get a device from this manufacturer then.
- Comment on "Privacy-Preserving" Attribution: Mozilla Disappoints Us Yet Again 4 months ago:
Sad to see Mozilla being managed into the ground, betraying their principles and selling their users.
- Comment on Shopping app Temu is “dangerous malware,” spying on your texts, lawsuit claims 4 months ago:
That is not entirely correct. The reported found the app using permissions that are not covered by the manifest. It also found the app being capable to execute arbitrary code send by temu. So it cannot be clearly answered if the app can utilize these permissions or not. Obviously they would not ship such an exploit with the app directly.
- Comment on Giveaway! Win your Steam Copy of the 'Captain’s Edition' of Star Trek: Resurgence! 5 months ago:
I love a good story driven Star Trek game. And it even has one of my favorite characters in it 🖖
- Comment on Microsoft now pops up a poll asking why you'd want to use another browser when you download Chrome 1 year ago:
This. Regulators are a joke
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
You may want to rework your privacy policy. It contadicts itself:
We do not track your online browsing activity on other online services over time and we do not permit third-party services to track your activity on our site beyond our basic Google Analytics tracking
- Analytics: We do not use any third-party Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Antennapod supports syncing with podder.net and gpoddersync
- Comment on Grayjay: A new app that merges different video platforms into one 1 year ago:
They video was quiet promising. However looking at the app website shows that what was a false promise. The app does track every single launch and sends that to their servers (see privacy policy) not legal without consent in the EU. Calling this “tracker free” is more than misleading here. I’d call it a lie actually.
- Comment on Self Hosted Automatic Bookmark Backup and Synchronization 1 year ago:
Have you tried github.com/jeena/fxsync-docker? It is a docker compose for selfhosting of new Firefox sync server rewritten in Rust.
Credits: lemmy.world/post/5839867
- Comment on PasswordManagement: which one of these options would you choose? 1 year ago:
Keepass on phone, desktop and tablet. Sync serverless via Syncthing. -> completely private -> always available when needed -> no dependency on services which may go away -> all open source software -> maximum security