That is extremely inconvenient and jist feels wrong. There’s no reason a digital file has to be tied to an inconvenient, small-volume media.

Yeah, indeed. I choose where to shop based on whether the shop has a presence in my city (not just “nearby”). Agree it is not universal, I am in a big city.

Where I am, to receive a package from mail or a private shipping company, you indeed have to show your ID. However, I always order to the online store’s own office directly (usually without even creating the account - instead asking an employee), and I’ve never been asked this. Is it stricter where you are?

If only they removed the AI image at the top, it’s disgusting that it’s still there after all this time. Even basic geometric patterns would’ve been preferrable to AI slop.

I just wish there were more communities that aren’t technology or politics.

I had a similar problem - another site rejected my mail. But when I reached to the support, they said it wasn’t the domain itself - it was the TLD that they decline. It does indeed have a bad reputation, I just didn’t know it before buying.

But that’s just documenting a life. I don’t find it interesting to just look at someone’s life (unless said life is really unusual). I want to see the personality.

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I hope you left feedback about this specific issue when leaving.

Privacy and social media are not really mutually exclusive - if we’re talking about a service like Facebook that follows you around the internet unless you take measures, yes. But if we mean something like Lemmy or Mastodon, it can be fine for privacy if you choose right what you do and don’t expose.

I am really frustrated when this is brought up, since it only shows what they have been collecting so far, not what they’re capable of collecting. The government agencies can force them to do whatever modifications to the server AND to keep completely silent about it. I am still trying to understand whether Sealed Sender would protect from a server collecting and recording ALL the data it possibly can.

I just find the format itself pointless. Not only does that encourage oversharing (including images of your face, which for me is a big no-no), but also doesn’t allow expressing yourself. You can pretty much only state facts like “I cooked pancakes today”. Not express your thoughts and skills, like a wall of text on hidden meanings in Squidward’s music. Even in a simple photo report, choosing how and when to take photos is most of the art, while randomized timing deprives you of that.

I think it still very much depends on how much they’re onto you. The guy from the most famous Proton case seems like a low-level crook, so if he wasn’t so easy to catch, chances are the agency would’ve just went after an easier prey. If you’re a DNM admin, though… Indeed, play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

I need one because a large portion of the internet is blocked, pretty much everyone around me uses some sort of censorship evasion for this reason. I have a subscription to a VPS rather than a VPN - it allows me flexibility in what protocol to use because some can get censored (already has happened with Wireguard I used to have), as well as allows hosting a variety of services in addition.

The median monthly salary in my country is $300-$500. It absolutely is a big cost for some people.

It does have some built-in blocklists, but they’re limited compared to UBO. For example, blocking the ads on a site, but not the big HTML elements they used to be in.

Unless you’re a woman and want to be treated as a human being, I guess.

When I first installed GOS, wanted to like Vanadium. Went right back into a FF fork+UBO once I saw that while its blocklists did stop ads themselves on TvTropes, it did nothing to the HTML elements that contained them so it left big ugly white boxes visible.

My bank app just has its own NFC payment system, independent from Google, and that works fine.

Yes.