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Reading the actual text of the bill, it seems like a first-boot date of birth prompt and everything else you’ve described is exactly what the bill is asking for actually.

True, and this is also the case in many other countries. Even if it is revocable by future legislation though, having pro-privacy laws on the books to prevent the current executive…

I mean that'd certainly be nice, and it is also their only job, but even if they wanted to do it in regular legislation that'd be better than nothing. Make a law that says companie…

Realistically the EU only cares about protecting their citizens from private companies, and especially American ones. When it comes to government overreach they know virtually no b…

I shared your comment with the author and we're going to reorder some of the sentences in a little bit to highlight the fact it's a backdoor earlier. We've talked about Chat Contro…

> They start outlawing encryption altogether? This is the direction places like the UK have gone in, yes. Can't decrypt something? Then we assume it is illegal content.

> Do they think they're above it? Yes, the lawmakers literally exempt themselves from this law in this law.

Totally. This is exactly the problem with things like Chat Control in the EU and KOSA in the US. They will just introduce the same bill over and over and over again until they get …

You can disable purchase sharing and still do subscription sharing, which completely solves this problem.

This post is 3 years old and mostly talking about a completely different website, because the poster didn’t know privacyguides.org moved to a new domain after the old one was hijac…

We cover that too [0]. In addition, while I wouldn't blanket recommend a VPN usually, it's important to use a VPN in conjunction with Mullvad Browser (specifically). If you're not …

Most are, most are affiliate link-farms in disguise as well, and privacyguides.org is written in response to such guides. It is called privacy guides and not security guides for a …

We don't have a deal with Brave. It was added almost 3 years ago, and nobody has even proposed removing it in the time since. Furthermore, it would be insane and likely illegal for…

> The Apple system was pretty much the best way this could be done This may be true, and yet it's also true that it was still a terrible plan. This is exactly why it simply shouldn…

I've always worried that Proton might succumb to the enshittification that seems to eventually plague all tech companies. This news makes me a lot more optimistic that won't be the…

Yeah, that is interesting to me. I would imagine one of the main reasons people have been asking for alternative browser engine support in the first place is the potential to have …

I didn’t realize hitting the “join” button on a new subreddit was an insurmountable obstacle for some.

> How am I supposed to contribute to a NoDerivatives project? I don’t understand this question, like literally how? The process has not changed. The FSF recommends CC BY-ND for wor…