Only americans are surprised by this. GDPR is worthless, EU is a clown show, we didn’t even vote for.

Gee think long and hard about this.

I just do it all in my openwrt router now. Set up any DoH (https-dns-proxy) or DoT (stubby) with DNSSEC, plus blocklists with adblock-fast.

Hagezi has some servers with default blocking https://github.com/hagezi/dns-servers

https://github.com/hagezi/dns-blocklists#dnsservices

I was liking NextDNS, they have good features, and I liked not having to maintain blocklist files with shady domains in plain text saved in my hardware, but their jurisdiction and their code being closed source made me reevaluate.

why feel bad for suggesting objectively better software?

imagine if he did

Something somewhere will have to check your actual ID. There are no magical miracles. I certainly don’t trust gov IT infrastructure. It’s a convoluted patchwork built over the years with varying degrees of incompetence and corruption.

Sadly, I want to sign a “No verification whatsoever, fuck off with your shit, you don’t fool me” not a “p-p-p-please atleast pretend to make it less distopian”

ChromeOS is also Android basically, no?

So… GrapheneOS in desktop mode. I don’t know the details, but there’s that I think. Kinda just hook up the phone to a dock with a monitor. Great option, more secure than linux.

You can try a regular linux distro with gnome. It’s a normal OS nowadays. I don’t see anything more or less complicated. Windows is more overwhelming imo with all the bloat you have to remove with some scripts downloaded off some russian forum, and all the settings within settings…

This is the only one I like. I think it’s done right under the hood. Good balance between features and looks like stock, without being too overloaded with options. It hasn’t been updated in a while, though nothing seems broken AFAIK.

While good intended these actions just further validate their ideas, by showing anything other than an uncompromising “No”.

No, not exactly like.

Linux: any distro not implementing age verification becomes illegal

Searx: search engines already implement captchas and ridiculous rate limits.

Fediverse: inconvenient node operators can be categorized as terrorists, like the italian anarchists who were providing web services.

Signal will just buzz off countries implementing backdoors. Until it’s not put next to Encrochat. Same with GrapheneOS.

US already banned routers. Those should be entirely provided by ISPs only at some point.

They could as well publicly and really piss and shit all over these hearings at this point.

like nitter and xcancel got a musky cease and desist letter and they promptly closed the service and the repository.

If any corporation decides any software is hurting their bottom line, anything is fair game to them.

All just one puny little squeaky C&D letter away from shutdown apparently, probably.

platforms used to want more users and traffic. we are really in retarded timeline

Custom roms can be just like distros. The problem is non unlockable bootloaders and device attestation and that’s only getting worse with the help of the govs. If we wanna try something, it would be directed here. But they’re really convinced only big corps can do it.

Anything else installed on a device, including GrapheneOS, will render it a dumb device. People don’t want that, they don’t even want freedom actually. They don’t want linux, never picked it up for decades. It’ll even get banned.

Welp they now have to protect us from all the cybercriminals in possession of citizen data after they failed to secure their systems.

Google phone sales don’t even register as change

Neat. Good to know. I’ll still look for the “we don’t collect shit” software.

If you’re gonna use a free one, might aswell. It’s just their barebones service with 3 countries. I don’t see why it would be any different from the paid option within the same company. There’s no different TOS afaik.