This sounds to me like it’s in line with the argument against space exploration where we shouldn’t explore space when we’ve got problems here on Earth (unless I’m missing something).

Quite a few innovations happen tangentially to what the researchers were trying to do, I personally like the idea of ppl exploring new ideas regardless if they’re helping our immediate problems.

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Rust will make the world safer

Voip numbers you mean? Otherwise in the US it can be found thanks to data brokers

There’s no shoulds and shouldn’ts, it’s all about your personal privacy needs and tradeoffs you’re willing to take

What are these guardrails? It won’t talk about specific topics?

I think that today the prevention takes some effort and time to learn. In my personal experience people are mostly oblivious/shrug off the data mining, not thinking about the consequences (“what can they possibly do with this data?”).

I’d argue awareness is a big factor still

Games can help people talk about issues, bridging the communication barrier to some topics. Can’t believe they managed to explain the issue in 2 mins lol.

I thought it was a flop, but the reviews are positive

Like what for example?

Massive boner* FTFY

It’ll probably take time though until it’s available

Like someone else said here - I do what I can and go on with my day. Wouldn’t assume soneone who cares/proactive about privacy is “overthinking”.

As with everything in life, there’s a tradeoff for everything. I just recently downloaded LineageOS MicroG fork because ride share apps simply won’t launch without Google play services.

https://community.signalusers.org/t/signal-blog-removing-sms-support-from-signal-android-very-soon/47954/57

Apparently there’s no RCS API so any 3rd party app will disappear at some point (if RCS becomes the popular protocol)

That’s a good read, thanks!

https://www.beeper.com/privacy

We use your information only as you’ve permitted and in service of bettering your user experience.

Little worried about the second part but I like that’s it’s short

I see the confusion, what I meant to say their keyboard is spying on them which includes their part of my conversation with them. Having an app broadcast the metadata of the conversations (whatsapp) + a keyboard spying on them = me getting profiled, somewhat.

Although Meta tries to go Apple’s way and not share data (likewise for Google, iirc)

Will do, thanks!

Wdym? I was under the impression that the Google native/default keyboard on Android feeds some stuff to their ad-related dataset

Don’t trust them either but that’s sometimes a good sign. It’s been used for illegal activities using a 3rd party client for a while in one country that I know of, which oddly enough makes me a little more comfortable. Or at least that country just couldn’t get access to the data

IMO I’d rather have that and have them clearly say they’re not using it for anything than potentially be profiled on WhatsApp where my friends keyboards are spying on their end in terms of content, i.e. be plugged into a social network with half the conversation exposed that way.

I say sane in comparison to that.

Granted these are my own concerns