This mismanagement, among other issues, potentially cost Microsoft a trillion dollars in market capitalization

so far

no idea how are they getting out of this trouble

I don’t know if they actually started injecting it into the video, but even before they did that, they were serving the ads from the same domain.

my reply on another thread: https://sh.itjust.works/comment/24730726

that is the documentation of firebase, not signal. firebase just shows a common example there that is easy to implement for beginners and lazy devs. but developers can send whatever they want through firebase. I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s what facebook messenger is doing, but if a developer cares about their users privacy, they can just send a simple message through firebase, and make the app so that when receiving that, it checks for new messages by itself.

this is what the molly fork does with unifiedpush. the UP server, commonly ntfy.sh, only sees that the mollysocket server sent this to your molly client:

{"urgent": true}

Notification history is purely local to the device. It is not sent to any servers.

I did not claim so. but when your phone is confiscated, it’s possible to read that out

I think we are mostly charged by the minute, and some plans have a certain amount of free minutes and messages, but I don’t know if that also applies to foreign calls. nowadays I rarely use phone calls though, so I may not be completely up to date

exactly, it does not need to be automated, and then less info is required.

Automation in these areas often increases the amount of collected information by a lot.

It’s not because of push notifications. the message is not sent to firebase, just a signal that the app should do a refresh.

It’s because the system saves the notifications apps posted to the notification menu.

It’s not because of push notifications. the message is not sent to firebase, just a signal that the app should do a refresh.

It’s because the system saves the notifications apps posted to the notification menu.

It’s not because of push notifications. the message is not sent to firebase, just a signal that the app should do a refresh.

It’s because the system saves the notifications apps posted to the notification menu.

but yes. don’t use firebase push notifications if you can avoid it. use a unifiedpush based system. base signal app does not support it, only molly. there are some difficulties though with that that are unique to signal.

I would love to use JMP chat, but they only give a canadian or usa phone number. I guess that would be very expensive for others to call from europe, besides being very unusual

I especially like that JMP seems to be a really honest provider, basing their services on privacy and open source software, which is so, so rare

But lets assume that your microphone is recording everything you say to some llm, and everyone else too. imagine the shitshow it must be to sort all that data, considering how unreliable llm are. There is no way to know for sure what the original meaning and intention of words is without actual human confirming it. there would be so much constantly going on that even with decent automation it would be nightmare to manage, i think.

filtering for interesting words in a transcription would go a long way. I’m not convinced they would need an LLM for this. keyword based targeted advertising was a thing for quite a fewyears before LLMs became widespread.

I have occasionally tried to investigate if my phone is listening even though it doesnt indicate so, but i havent noticed anything that would point to that.

I have friends of all ages who are not really technically adept, and not caring much about privacy either, but who tell me from time to time that it’s like facebook is listening, because of some ad they saw on there. I still don’t have any clue how are they pulling that off, and I hear it too much to accept it being a coincidence.

but I don’t use facebook, I refuse to use their apps, my phone is clean from google too, while theirs is littered with every garbage in addition to the factory bloat, so I can’t do much to figure it out

I fully expect my government to keep a record of all its citizens.

they don’t reasonably need biometric data to keep a record. they do need it, that’s not what I dispute, but not reasonably.

fdroid link: https://f-droid.org/packages/org.fairscan.app

same as webm, yes

zoom will promise the stars for you if there is money in it. when they became globally popular during covid, they have shown plenty of times that they are lying about several important issues.

no. I’m advocating for medical practitioners to not lie (probably unknowing) to their patients about their privacy, but to switch to solutions that are verifiably HIPAA compliant, because zoom is really not better than a facebook messenger videocall. examples include a hosted jitsi meet (default end to end encryption), or even big blue button.

I understand that. my point is that zoom has access to the video and audio feed in transit. Despite them being very popular, they have lied about their systems without pause when they became big during covid, including that their system is end to end encrypted, which it is not.

there are better alternatives for it but unfortunately only a little fraction of the people know about them.

to be clear I support you if you are looking for preserving your privacy with this AI transcription, just wanted to let you know that information was already leaking, even if laws have baselessly believed that they did not.

It’s nice that mental health is so inconsequential to you that you can balance it against privacy purity politics.

oh now I’m a privacy purist! oh god what have I become! I want totally unreasonable things!!

or, it seems you by default don’t care about privacy at all because surely who needs it, and also already forgot the case of woman in USA using online period tracker apps that outed them for having an illegal abortion.

Just like antivax it’s coated in fake concern,

fake concern, sure… my concerns are very real, and OP has come for advice, asking among others what could be the consequences. well, this is one of the consequences there will be.

You guys really are a pure product of those amoral hyper-individualistic times.

yes, blame me, not the system that made this situation. don’t you want to call the cops on me?

of course, but no root permission is needed for that. flatpak packages can be installed on the user level, but even if you somehow disable that, they could still just download firefox (or anything else) as a tarball, unpack it and run it traditionally

mkv for the win