There’s nothing reasonable in you having to share your location with them constantly.

If you cut off all such apps, prepare to be isolated from your peers who most likely don’t care about privacy (which is most people and in your age group perhaps close to everyone).

If you’re not ready to go out of the mainstream, try to minimise your usage of such apps to only what you need - if you need Instagram for communication with peers, use it for that, but don’t feed Meta the data of what you look at. I was on Messenger for ~2 years after I quit Facebook and even that made me feel better.

Use some privacy protection tools, I personally recommend Adguard, but feel free to choose other popular options.

Beware that no matter what you do, big tech will still know about you more than you’d like.

Wow, that’s really cool.

I mean, I’ve seen a password on a post-it in our office, so yeah, maybe a good idea? We also have a company mandated Bitwarden and you wouldn’t believe how many times I’ve seen people type a password by hand instead of using Bitwarden when I help them set up VPN or something. It’s definitely upwards of 80%.

not having an easy tax system like other countries

Which countries, please? Income tax forms are horrible everywhere I know about (which is like 5 countries, so not a huge sample, to be fair).

Some user wants to fetch a content that’s on different server. Let’s call the user’s instance “Home instance” and the other one “Target instance”.

Let’s assume the Home instance and Target instance are not federated yet.

So, the user triggers the discovery of the Target instance on the Home instance. It varies by platform, but on both Lemmy and Mastodon it’s done by searching for a URL (for example https://lemmy.world/c/protonprivacy). Because the instances don’t know about each other, they now have to federate.

Federation basically means, that the Home instance subscribes to all changes by some part (or all) of the Target instance, in this case to a single community (to save space, traffic etc. they don’t usually subscribe to stuff that no user is subscribed to).

Now, whenever you add a content (post, comment, toot on Mastodon), your instance checks the list of subscribers and notifies every single one about the change.

So if there’s a new post here, the Target instance now notifies the Home instance that there’s a new post, the Home instance downloads the data about the new post and makes a local copy. Let’s assume the user makes a comment on that new post, in that case the Home instance notifies the Target instance that there’s a new comment and the Target instance makes a copy.

That’s basically how Activity Pub works.

What’s wrong with it? It seems to work good enough for me.

No problem, I can now see that my wording could have been a little clearer.

You do. If I disable my ad blocker on my home network which blocks ads on the DNS level, many ads slip through. For example those, that are on the same domain as the content.

Yes, old news, but I still found it interesting and relevant.

Nothing serious, but the general consensus online is that it would be the smart thing to do. Note the keyword online. Given that I frequented Reddit and now Lemmy, there’s obviously a bias.

UK people were kinda drunk on their former glory and didn’t quite notice that basically everyone worth considering (US, EU, China) has the upper hand when dealing with them alone. Realistically speaking, they’ll have to join EU (or its successor) eventually if they want to stay relevant. We might be talking 10 years, 20 years, 50 or even 100. If I personally had to guess, it’s gonna be 20 to 40 years.

Edit: Forgot to mention that UK had a lot of exceptions because they joined quite early where they had a lot more political strength over the union. When they join, they’ll have to do it by the same rules as everyone else without exceptions which many of them are salty about (meaning those who are generally pro-rejoin but not under the same rules as other countries).

Well, here’s to hoping that you’ll join us one day again :)

That might be it. The more I learn the happier I am I live in EU.

What dystopia do you guys live in? I’ve worked for some small companies and some corporates and neither did this shit, that really wouldn’t fly here.

Same here (well, I already use Firefox for the last decade or so). But as usual, people will choose whatever other people choose or whatever is the default and be fine with it.

Not manifest, their signature must match. Usually F-Droid apps have their own signature but they also support providing your own signature precisely for compatibility with other stores.

Anonaddy, I’ve been using it for a few years.

Not a big loss then. People who won’t accommodate you on something that’s important to you, are not worth it.

Feel better now? This is not how you present your opinion. Hopefully this is just the anonymity of the internet that somehow compells you to behave thay way, otherwise I’m sorry for the people that know you personally.

Nah, OP resorted to lying which IMO is unnecessary. My best friend doesn’t care for privacy issues at all, yet he uses Signal to communicate with me. My in-laws are die-hard Apple fans, yet they use Signal to communicate with me or my SO. Because they have two options - 1) use Signal or 2) don’t chat with me or my SO. No lying necessary.

So much lying instead of just saying “I won’t be using WhatsApp because I don’t want tech giants to have my data, if you want to reach me, use Signal”. Don’t be afraid to stand behind your opinions!

Bitwarden, I use it everywhere. I even wrote a Bitwarden app for my Linux phone.