I think eventually if a federated system (or particular server) gets too popular they will just defederate from everyone else and perpetuate the same problem all over again
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that is the only current accepted alternative to paying for website access, yes
if you have better ideas though, we'd all love to hear them
very interesting. I'm sure someone will be along to tell me why I shouldn't care.
You might be right, but I don't think that's a problem they're going to solve all on their own, meanwhile the rest of users will suffer.
such a qol upgrade
I don't think you're wrong, but I do think that if everyone thought that, they would be doing it already.
I have routinely tried to get friends and family to use ad-blockers and they simply don't care enough to even attempt to download one.
can be combatted with a £5 Faraday bag
I don't consider that a reasonable solution for most people, and there are many posts claiming those almost never work well enough. You could also make the argument that it shouldn't be necessary in the first place.
That is about monitoring by your network
I don't think it matters to most people, as you are still tracked by having the phone physically with you, which is what people are against.
A ten year old article about Samsung phones
Are you suggesting Samsung phones should have ever been allowed to spy on people? Or that this doesn't highlight a bigger issue? I don't see why this should get a pass at all.
An exploit affecting lots of phones that seems like it was fixed
I think it's very much a real threat, and leaked docs show world governments and bad actors actively use such exploits routinely for years, including keeping previously unknown exploits a secret to use for themselves.
I understand your desire to turn talking points into nothingburgers but I feel like this is not only disingenuous but against the entire principal of security and privacy. Of course we all have our own individual threat models, but to dismiss another person's model because you think it shouldn't matter to anyone, doesn't seem like a good idea to me.
Why are you linking to the old video?
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcjkezf1ARY](NOTCURSES III: THE SAGA CONTINUES)
You still have to trust their black box Titan security chip that's only in Pixels, that they pinky promised to open source but never did.
requires
Not for everyone everywhere apparently. It seems dependent on some secret trust algorithm of your IP/fingerprint/something.
I made the same claim before and every time, people proved me wrong.
69% of the world population doesn't use ad blockers. Google made their billions from people clicking on ads.
Not only are we technical folks, only 5% of the population, not their target audience, it seems most people don't care enough about ads to ever try to stop them... at all.
I would use Ada or Spark in a heartbeat if there was an easy-to-use, mature cross-platform GUI library for it.