You are comapring present with past.

Pedohiles gets locked up hard, no matter your religion. At least in Europe.

Damn, they have some shit takes. But this is suggestions from a work force. Not even a proposed bill.

Still does. These are nowhere near laws.

Some simple things to look into:

• Change your DNS resolver on all devices to something privacy friendly
• Use a search engine with less tracking
• Ublock, Privacy Badger etc for browser extensions
• Firefox with disabled tracking (look into forks like Librewolf)
• Change your keyboard on your phone to something local with no tracking (FUTO Keyboard)
• This for Windows, just use normal settings if you dont know what you’re doing
• Install Fdroid for open source apps. Many privacy friendly options.
• Look into how to disable telemitry on all the devices you use. Some of the above will already help you with that.

And in general, try to use services from the EU, as its privacy laws are much stronger than other alternatives.

Good luck, let me know if you need something more advanced.

To be fair, he is just asking for more reasons than privacy. No reason not to give him them, and also okay to say we don’t think there is any.

Yeah, they really do throw money around to keep control…

And I know it doesnt help to always say “we need political change” because it’s also an easy escape to just say that.

Im also trying my best moving me and my friends to other platforms, and we shouldnt stop. Be the change.

This is where it depends on country.

EU is making better privacy laws, others are making worse. (yes, I know about the encryption bill in the EU, that has never been voted through. I also know about all the privacy laws that actually work here)

People want convinience. You’ll never get people to do it, unless it personally affects them. Realisticly, you can convert a few.

But most importantly. It shouldnt be that hard to have privacy. THATS the problem. People shouldnt need to do alot of things to get it.

Do something about the problem (political, legally change privacy laws) instead of every single person.

But I know that can be near impossible depending of where you live.

For sure. Their decision about OpenStreetMaps seems pretty wise.

Imagine if we end up a place, where this tarrif shitshow actually ends up with EU and the world being independent from big tech corps on Maps, Office (Word, Excel), Windows etc.

Sometimes all we need is a wake up call.

How can you hate on smart homes, when it’s a concept in itself with 100 different use cases.

My home cuts of the power for my standby devices when I leave it and nobody’s there. It makes sure everything is locked at night. It literally saves me 100’s on heating.

My light dims and uses less power when the sun is down. Good for the eyes and the bill.

It can run my washing machine when power is cheapest.

So now, if it does all that, making sure less ressources are spent, both money and CO2, and privacy is good, then why on earth you even hate it, let alone have an opinion about it. Why you care?

The best news from this is that the EU is willing to go these ways. Incredible for consumers in the long run and to combat monopolies.

Yes, they could sponsor something else, but what we also really want are choices and competition.

Isnt this possible with Grayjay, or do you still need an account?

https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/chat-control/

He put the ones who didnt vote ‘in favour’, that’s why it didnt pass.

But you can see who’s directly opposing.

True, but most of the Europeans dont have those governments.

EU has the best privacy laws, only behind Switzerland.

They will not be close to the greatest threat, but it will still be a step back.

Also, these are proposals that has not been voted in ever before. So be sure to vote for politicians that wont, so we can keep it that way.

Never probably, these are law proposals.

They have never been voted in, as the majority of EU doesnt want them.

So makes sure to vote in politicans that wont, so we can keep it that way.

Also very obvious when an app or website have an US and an EU version. You just know they buttfuck the Americans because no rules.

Even Apple had to make two versions of iOS.