TheProtagonist

That was killed quickly.

No one is being forced to use Chrome.

I had no idea that this is a global phenomenon.

Not a mod, and not using the default app either. So probably this won’t affect me too much.

Although I doubt that Signal would leave the EU (or that this dangerous regulation would even become something that could ever be applied in practice), SimpleX looks very promising as a possible alternative.

However, it would also mean that you have to convince all your contacts to make the move, too - which was already difficult when I told them to install Signal additionally to WhatsApp, which is virtually on almost every device.

AI is the solution to all our problems... /s

I use Piped, too. But recently it became really slow and unreliable for me. I am using it through Yattee with the default API.

"Privacy-focused YouTube channels" - sounds like a contradiction...

This is why I disconnect my machines from the network while in sleep mode (I use only wired connections). For me it’s perfectly sufficient if they update the apps while I use them.

So Google will not let me log in to my account unless I provide them my phone number? But at the same time they require a regular log in (at least once a year or every two years), so your account doesn’t get deleted?

I have an old Gmail account, I don’t use anymore, but it’s tied to my name, so I wouldn’t want someone else to use it at some point. I thinks there’s one email client that regularly connects to that account. I hope that will be sufficient to preserve it, but I would not feel comfortable giving them my phone number, when I have no other links to Google services (this may be different, if you use an Android phone anyway).

That’s no surprise to me. Ads are Google’s core business. Why should they support technologies that potentially limit their profits?

Used it maybe a dozen times in the past 20 years.