I don’t see any inherent problem with the two things you say are problems: neither DoH, nor the idea that a browser can override default settings.

I’m not a fan of defaulting to Cloudflare, but this seems more like a case of picking your poison. Somebody’s going to get a crack at the domains you’re visiting, are they not? It seems better to encrypt these queries than to allow a middleman to intercept them.

Regarding override default system settings, is this really a problem? I prefer browsers that give people extra options, and I would find it worse if they suddenly took this option away.

The judge was so moved by a call for forgiveness that he increased the recommended sentence… Or if that’s not the case, that’s some poor writing in the article

An AI version of Christopher Pelkey appeared in an eerily realistic video to forgive his killer… “In another life, we probably could’ve been friends. I believe in forgiveness, and a God who forgives.”

The message was well-received by Judge Todd Lang, who told the courtroom, “I love that AI."

While the state asked for a nine-and-a-half year sentence, the judge handed Horcasitas a 10-and-a-half year sentence after being so moved by the video.

Pre-internet, there would be no doubt that the California courts would have specific personal jurisdiction over a third party who physically entered a Californian’s home by deceptive means to take personal information from the Californian’s files for its own commercial gain. Here, though Shopify’s entry into the state of California is by electronic means, its surreptitious interception of Briskin’s personal identifying information certainly is a relevant contact with the forum state.

Established norms for things like privacy and consent should have carried over into the online space. They didn’t, unfortunately - maybe this is because people viewed the Internet as “not real life,” but it is now clear that was a huge legal and cultural oversight.

The post got removed a year later, by Reddit filters?

wtf

Edit: …a decentralized Monero exchange

There’s the Monero shilling I expect in every comment

Pebble was from a time when enshittifiaction wasn’t as terrible as it is today, and died (post acquisition) before it could really be implemented in its products. Eric Migicovsky is an odd duck in that regard. Between this and Beeper, privacy has always been “not great, not malicious (yet)”, and before enshittifiaction could set in under his watch, the company gets bought out by a bigger one with a truly lousy CEO.

Under his watch. Heh.

Pebble was possibly one of the last great tech innovations before AI, in its desperate attempt to sell our stolen data back to us in a thoroughly butchered format. Which means it pains me to read

Upgrades to the hardware will include a speaker alongside the microphone, which Migicovsky teases will be used for talking with AI assistants (ChatGPT being one example).

Personal home labs might be able to go much further with this, I hope.

Considering how popular this product originally was with hackers and open source enthusiasts, I really hope the hardware has as much longevity as its predecessor. And considering that was closed source and got so much mileage, I have the feeling that this will be better simply by how open-source works.

I miss those old images that would show you your IP address and ISP name, which were generated dynamically based on the request. They were designed just to be a bit frightening. But, because they were rendered on the server side, there was definitely nothing stopping them from recording your IP address too.

https://imgur.com/aYxadwg

https://help.kagi.com/kagi/company/

Read about Kagi’s origin story and The Age of Pagerank is Over blog post, which serves as our manifesto.

https://blog.kagi.com/age-pagerank-over

Previously posted at kagi.ai on a page titled “Our Manifesto”

https://archive.is/PtPdj

Kagi doesn’t just add optional AI features, they are an AI-first company that wants to turn search into an AI agent. They wrote a manifesto about it.

Maybe manifestos aren’t worth much anymore, what’s with Mozilla abandoning theirs, but I tend to believe a company when they tell me what they are.

The nice thing about Fennec is you don’t have to accept a Mozilla license to use it, and those Mozilla services are (AFAIK) disabled by default. In fact, when I look at their settings menu, there is no “data collection” section to speak of.

The not-so-nice thing about Fennec is a little while back, it just didn’t receive any updates. For something like a month.

Just about every browser that’s based on Firefox is going to be slower to update than mainline Firefox, with perhaps the exception of Tor and Mullvad because they work hand in hand.

If I were you, I would just shutter everything about the account except for the Minecraft license. Especially because, if you create a new account to play Minecraft, Microsoft is eventually going to ask you to provide identifying information like a phone number anyway. (At least, this has been my experience.)

I don’t think there’s the best answer here, but that’s what I would do.

What are the chances that your account then gets marked as “insecure” unless Google can effectively figure out who you are?

The corporation doesn’t have to stifle 100% of their criticism, they just need to disseminate enough of a counternarrative, with PR statements that are technically true enough, to overpower the criticism so that it no longer matters.

(Plus, based on your last comment, I know you already have a “they can moderate anything they feel like” response lined up, if they do start clamping down even harder where they can.)

Your account history is public

The most significant quote is from Proton itself, which made an official statement in favor of Republican and JD Vance.

I haven’t seen many people simply post archives to the now-deleted contents of what Proton said, which is pretty damning in its own right. Before Proton realized their mistake, started erasing their original replies, and crafting a much less damning-looking narrative.

I’ve reviewed the article that tries to ascertain Andy Yen’s politics (as if doing this would have been less weird if it was unabashed love of Democrats) and I agree it’s pretty bad in several ways.

But the backlash on Reddit could be contained!

• Half of it was on their subreddit, which they have full control over
• Half of it was on r/privacy, which got removed by a Proton fan.

tl;dr it’s malicious “link device” QR codes that are targeted at people, which I’ve read about already. Hopefully, if anyone sees one of these messages in the wild, it would be relatively easy to ignore, because Signal makes you jump through extra hoops if you attempt to scan it with your phone.

If you open your phone’s camera app and point it at one of these malicious QR codes, Signal can/will open it, and then show you a notification:

To link a desktop or iPad to this Signal account, go to Linked Devices and tap “Link a New Device” and scan the QR code again. Make sure you only scan QR codes that come directly from Signal."

You can then jump into the Linked Devices page and scan the code again, if you choose. But the original QR code you scanned doesn’t go anywhere, far as I can tell.

It’s still kind of bad. You can format bullet points better by having a space between the bullet and the text. Then you don’t have to double-space everything.

It’s also pretty easy to test changes by using the Preview buttons available in most client, as far as I’ve seen

Isn’t it illegal to lock privacy behind a paywall?

… It seems like it might not be.

https://iapp.org/news/a/pay-or-consent-personalized-ads-the-rules-and-whats-next/