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Joined 10 months ago
Cake day: July 16th, 2025






  • Are you telling me that the company that hosts “free” not propaganda services and has been caught repeatedly stealing all possible data including data about women and presumably girls’ periods and has been caught in one of the largest data manipulation scandals this century could be betraying my trust with their “vawwy vawwy pwivate and vawwy vawwy encwypted” closed source and again operated by the most sinister motherfuckers of all time messaging app???

    I. Am. Shocked.

    I’m also looking for a bridge on the cheap if you guys have any leads.






  • You said classmates. And hobby implies you did it a lot, and a lot extends beyond a few friends very quickly, so I do doubt it was limited to that, but I’ve got no choice but to take your word. Also I had thought you were the guy previously okaying this privacy nightmare in a trenchcoat, so ignore half of what I was saying.

    Whatever it is or whatever it helps, if people want to opt into it, have at it. I will not be doing that. My solution protects me from everyone accept teams that have the funding and skill to get in through other means. I use biometrics, not perfect but it works. If I want those disabled until a password/code is in, it’s a tap away. No one sees me use it because I’m using biometrics until I don’t want to.

    In what world do we expect companies that have decades long track records of fucking us for profit to stop after another empty promise?


  • When you couple what you just said with what they’re trying to do, your own argument can be made in my favor.

    One of my hobbies in college was shoulder surfing classmates passwords just to repeat it back to them later in the day. Though on a phone you have far fewer reasons to type in an associated accounts password.

    Never tell anyone else this again, and stop doing it. What an insane invasion of privacy.

    My security should be my choice on my device end of story. My password/passcode plus encryption with easily accessible ways to put it into lockdown mode and have lockdown mode on a continuous timer is absolutely enough for my threat model.

    I don’t need any else making any addition call on it, and I definitely don’t need someone that is willingly bragging about invading others privacy coaching me on what these companies are intending while actively trying to take my right to privacy away.