Well that’s a funny coincidence, I’ve removed Google URLs and services from all my devices and browsers.

You need to read the article. It explicitly and IMO satisfactorily answers your excellent questions.

It’s an atrocious system, innocent people get killed every year over it.

So Protonmail was required to log the IP of the user after being ordered to via the proper international Swiss legal channeks, per Swiss/Europol law. And at some point recently, Protonmail thus removed the copy from their frontpage that advertised never tracking IPs.

What the article doesn’t really explain, is what exactly changed about Swiss or euro law? And when? What rules or acts have sprung up that made this possible? Or, was this always something that was possible that has only just now made precedent?

It’s important to hold accountable the named individuals who are harming individual security, safety, and trust in this manner so that they can be prevented from continuing to do so.

So you mean android-compatible devices with a supported method for unlocking? Because you can also jailbreak most locked bootloaders through unsupported means.

I wasn’t actually aware that OnePlus have a supported route and that they were the only other brand who do. I jailbroke my own OnePlus :P

Do you mean android-compatible? Because there are a lot of android-compatible device manufacturers with unlockable bootloaders outside of Google themselves. Like the OnePlus I’m currently using.

Reminds me of when people say “product” instead of “shampoo” or “conditioner” or whatever it is they’re actually putting in their hair. Capitalism-coded language.

Same here (USA). I haven’t updated my newpipe in a month at least, so it simply never broke. Not a big fan of these unverified headlines.

Because it’s not actually about age verification, it’s about totalizing surveillance of everyone.

I have all the known Israeli IP ranges banned.

What OS did you put on it and what issues have you run into? I’ve been considering the Pinephone Pro because it seemed both more flexible and cheaper than a Librem.

How about we abandon proprietary locked-down launcher sandboxes on our phones and just run regular old Linux on them like we do on the desktop?

Isn’t that what PostmarketOS is? Is there some bullshit firmware issue in the way of that? What exactly is stopping us?

You and I both know that these precedents get concocted to be selectively applied. There’s no concern for the actual letter of the law here, it’s just a means to an end.

Insert tasteless parody of the “First They Came” poem

Maybe she doesn’t know it, but how she reacts to this situation is my main test of her suitability as my partner. Nothing is more attractive to me than a woman who can just chill for 15 minutes without complaint while I exportfs -a and restart nfsd.

When you lease access to information, you literally don’t have any stuff.

People sometimes don’t believe me when I tell them I’ve literally never used Spotify.

Don’t forget to tell them to go to the shows!!

Musicians are real people who very often hold live performances in high-population locations, you can see them directly with your eyeballs, hear them directly with your hearholes, and physically hand them actual cash with your flesh and blood hands!

Edit - To the people complaining about ticket company charges: You need to get into your local music scene and the +95% of bands out there who aren’t big enough to play venues that have ticket company contracts. There is a world of music out there completely free of that system and you’re neglecting it.

Literally if not for music piracy I wouldn’t have a massive vinyl library worth > $7,000, wouldn’t have gone to 100+ live shows, wouldn’t have paid $1000+ bucks for all the band merch I have, wouldn’t have evangelized countless bands to all of my friends and social network for decades. Piracy is absolutely the thing that unlocked that whole obsession for me.

Saying that Notch supports a campaign sounds like a smear against it. There are a million other voices this campaign could have quoted before his.