• Zetta
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    While this would be terrible if it passes, a part of me hopes a silver lining would be a massive surge in open source development focusing on privacy respecting software that does not follow or enable this disgusting behavior by the eu

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          If you are using Windows or mac, they will be first in line to implement “protection” against “insecure software” :)

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            Or Android with Google Play. It already does this BS, even if you disable scanning.

            Lineage/Graphene/DivestOS here I come.

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              Yesterday Google play kindly un-installed KDE connect for my “security” as it is a “dangerous app”

              I promptly re-installed from f-Droid.

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                But all the Google defenders will say “it was for our own good” or the app dev did something that looked suspicious. 🤦‍♂️

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                  But, but, now your phone could be hacked!! 🤣

                  (yes, sarcasm, lol)

                  The Google bootlickers tell me my phone is at risk since it’s rooted. As if every single Linux, Unix, and Windows box doesn’t have root access for specific users. And Windows is so flawed they require a privilege escalation to perform fairly innocuous functions.

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            When I said privacy respecting software, I definitely did not mean windows or Mac lol. Open source is the only way to actually know something respects your privacy, so both those pieces of software are inherently not that. Linux for life!

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            That’s like already the thing, if I modify my little “secure encrypted sharing protocol” windows will flag it as a virus if I send it (the software) to someone … Then after some time it’s ok. Guess it’s about those antivirus heuristics, but it’s not like it’s not putting a big stick in my bicycle wheel.

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          It wouldn’t be, on Linux at least