They got a exception because npbody uses that insecure garbage here, everyone uses Whatsapp tho so this makes a lot of sense!

Whatsapp encrypts top and it’s your choice to write with someone on Whatsapp… 🤦

I have a similar issue but I am able to use SMS for those few people, most of them are relatively easy to convince of Singla in my experience, it’s as easy as it gets, basically whatsapp in secure!

I will finally be able to replace fucking SMS with a few people that simply won’t switch to Signal, I simply won’t use Whatsapp and that did cause some security issues till now!

God damn, you should probably try to sue for that torture!

Still lazy! ;)

That’s because SMS isn’t end to end encrypted in general, you need a encryption client on both sides to achive E2E encryprion aka Singal to Signal or something comparable.

Your preinstalled SMS app is usually the best way to receive SMS, I wouldn’t give and unnecessary app permissions to access them!

Damn, that’s awful!

Both have laws like that in the making and beside tiny formalities the UK sadly didn’t abandone it at all! :/

Have you ever touched a Google phone? You CAN’T uninstalled preinstalled apps on ether of them, if you don’t root your device third party app stores suck, the law allows you to get rid of preinstalled bloat, messager interoperability is included and so on, that’s a huge law and the first against silicon valley giants with enforcment that will actually hurt them!

They literally ad d ed the tagging function on images to improve their facial detection so I doubt that this is a surprise to anyone!

Sorry, I mean browser engine. True, it certainly wanst the worse and a huge step up from IE and now it’s just another blink shell but I wouldn’t touch a Microsoft engine even if Google had 100% marketshare!

We should probably make a universal one along the lines of “fine with silicon valley” o something!

Absolutely, I would still like to have a collection of their garbage moderation to point to tho, well if people cut out all the CSAM that is!

I would rather use Googles search engine than put up with majore dissatvantages in terms of speed and performance to be able to use Microsofts, never forget how they treated the internet before!

I kind of like that idea, do we have any Twitter users here to do something like that too?

You hit the nail on the head with that one!

It’s a really good search engine and I have no reason to doubt their claims about privacy and cencorship but I have to say no there because beside finding piratebay in the normal search results it’s all just their claims and I don’t know of any sientific study or similar that ever tested any of the claims. If you don’t trust those promises self hosting SearX is probably a good option and I haven’t tried it in years but Qwant is another one with their own index aka independent results.

Fuck, the NSO group managed that shit again?!