Russia is reportedly planning to block WhatsApp as well.
Moved to lemmy.zip. May not respond here timely.
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I switched off after having found that its privacy settings prevent extensions like Dark Mode from reading your dark mode status in the OS. There’s a workaround but I might as well use something else.
That’s overkill. Shaun’s video on Harry Potter is less than two hours long and tells you all you need to know.
We know WhatsApp uses the Signal protocol for encryption, but it also collects a lot of metadata. Arguably still better than Telegram that collects everything. Its secret chats may be e2ee but nobody uses them even for discussing sensitive matters, and they don’t work on the Desktop.
Depends on whether piracy is less of an ethical issue than supporting a sexist transphobe.
Rose@lemmy.worldto Privacy@lemmy.ml•Nostr continues to raise the bar on private, uncensorable online discourse53·1 year agoThe corporate overlords are inherently right-wing, which is why they fund, build, and embrace those platforms. There’s no revolt in joining them.
That’s what they say, but I’d expect it to be producing some results even in the event of Bing being down if that were the case.
It didn’t return any search results during the Bing outage, as experienced by me personally and reported by others. At least one blog post claims it relies on Bing.
As far as I know, Startpage uses Bing, not Google now. The same is true for Ecosia.
Its Russian founder recently praised Musk in an interview for Tucker Carlson.
Rose@lemmy.worldto Privacy@lemmy.ml•Which Android mobile phone brand brings less pre-loaded 3rd-party apps?21·1 year agodeleted by creator
There is guilded.gg as well but I don’t know if it’s better for privacy.
Like the Hungarian.