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I always assumed this would happen, so had a second account. Which had a special email address both of which I only used via Tor and private brower mode.

It's why having open platforms matter.

It's data that could have value, so I doubt they don't store it. I think the movie studios didn't offer enough. Or Reddit thought it was too damaging for this particular sale.

I partly blame Amazon and EBay for normalizing ignoring regulations on goods. There need to be a reckoning across the board. How can legitimate manufacturers compete? How many ebike/hoverboard/charger fires do we need to see regs are important?

You ever seen Idiocracy? Feels more and more likely...

Anything is only worth what someone will pay. Always. Nothing has value beyond that.

Your completely right. But it is a hard sell to the family. They only really see the loss of functionality. So what I do is two networks. My stuff is on the secure network and theirs is on the other one. When I'm asked why, I say their devices aren't secure enough and their digital hygiene is too low. They can't argue with me as I'm the one who knows the most about this stuff by a long long way. I do put my foot down about Alexa and open mic stuff, but lots of stuff has voice functionally I've disabled. My wife uses Google's voice stuff on her phone, which means an open mic to Google and she doesn't worry when it says "I'm sorry I didn't understand that" at random times. Really politics need to catch up so we all protected more.

It's even cars, dishwashers, cookers, and other white goods now. They can't open even their APIs "because of security". Each one has their protocols to their own servers. If you get any access, it's via their cloud/servers. WHEN they abandon those devices, stop supporting their protocols on their servers, any smarts are crippled. It's just so short sighted. So vendor locking. So anti repair. So anti digital freedom. It's plain monopolistic digital serfdom. Purely software, on pure computers, is yesterday's battle front.

I'm on GrapheneOS now. I like the Sandboxing of Google. A compromise without feeling too compromised. The bank app runs too. Thanks for heads on GrapheneOS.

I'm on GrapheneOS now. I like the Sandboxing of Google. A compromise without feeling too compromised. The bank app runs too. Thanks for heads on GrapheneOS.

And if Trump gets in again? All the people not crazy going to along with him, or will he be to deploying the army? At what point does the apparatus of state start to split as people within it don't all go with crazy orders?

If I was Putin, or CCP, helping the crazies is the best money spent.

Federate the UK! Though I think England is too big and needs to be broken into chunks roughly even with Wales, Scotland and Ireland. Massively decentralize.