I wonder what those do with people who live in apartment buildings, lol.

I mean… They disabled desktop registration, then disabled registration from any non-official client, then can randomly ban people who try to make their usage of the platform more private/anonymous… Then there is censorship, at least here. And I have heard of at least one case of cooperation with German LE, so it’s not “untouchable” for Westerners too.

It was never safe with such an approach of “I can close my eyes and pretend the law doesn’t apply to me” even in the West. If it was hostile to privacy and anonymity by design, it was a matter of time until it became wide open to Western LE too. The sheer amount of compromate it had on users was a ticking time bomb.

“Highly decentralized complexity” - what does that even apply to? That would apply to Matrix, XMPP, Simplex, especially Briar. Even Signal can technically be selfhosted (whether it is feasible is another question), in Telegram you can’t have even that because the server is closed.

I am not disagreeing with your experience. I am disagreeing with cursive being a “made-up thing that nobody uses”.

Although there still is not a similar way to acquire your first Monero, the minimum amount for any trade there. Same problem as Bisq)

Telegram.

TG selling out? Was it not always like this, with all its censorship and attempts to combat anonymity? Weird to put it next to Tails, Tor or Localmonero.

Fair, and I guess accepting typed papers is more common in universities. But schools still don’t. Mostly because tradition is hard to break, in large part because a lot of people (especially elderly) would find it uncomfortable to read from a screen as opposed to paper. I can relate because I am this way myself))

Respectfully disagree. I myself went for embarrassingly long without knowing English cursive (only knew it for my native language), so I know the difference, and it DOES matter. As soon as most of my reading materials (and thus notes) became English, I had no choice other than to learn cursive, because otherwise writing is painfully slow.

There are keyboards, but usually computers/tablets/phones are banned in class. Our high school did not ban laptops on lessons (it was a very liberal school), but few people used them anyway. Then there are tests, solutions in which can also get too long to quickly write without cursive. Even here, teachers did not accept assigmnents and tests in a typed form, except during remote learning. Not to mention the formulas, which would be troublesome to type out, doubt kids would be fluent in LaTeX.

I am skeptical that this is possible, because you just wouldn’t be able to keep up with the necessary speed using non-cursive letters. It is SLOW.

What school are you in where kids aren’t taught cursive?? This is in standard first grade program.

I don’t think that whether it has a privacy impact even matters. What matters is how it demonstrates Mozilla’s attitude towards user consent.

But the JS is served to the browser each time the page loads, you can’t be sure it stays the same between loads. Sure, this is the same problem as malicious updates, but still exaggerated - the opportunity to slip in altered code is “every time you open the page” rather than “every update”.

I would rather not use KYC even for low-sensitivity transactions. Because I am afraid of such sensitive info leaking. Sure, I do KYC for things like phone service already - but would avoid it at any cost where it can be done.

Maybe it is just me being the wrong generation, but I don’t understand this meme. So Llama I guess is in relation to the company that owns the software - is that a consequence of animosity towards the parent company?

I wonder if this would be on all international devices and not just on the Chinese local ones.

Although indeed not getting one again, as apparently unlocking the bootloader is either hard or impossible.

From what I’ve seen, there are some blobs. At least Telegram-FOSS says:

Several proprietary parts were removed from the original Telegram client, including Google Play Services for the location services, HockeySDK for self-updates and push notifications through Google Cloud Messaging. Location sharing functionality is restored using OpenStreetMap.

Same page is where I learned you cannot register from third-party clients btw. Not nearly as big of a blow as removal of desktop registration, but still gross that you’d have to touch a partially-proprietary official app first.

Desktop client does not even have e2e, lol. (I don’t know if there are third-party options that do).

Yeah, if I am not mistaken, this has happened in Iran - the registration confirmation messages just wouldn’t arrive.

It asked for your phone number? That is the thing that angered me the most. I wonder why you would share this rather than ask a waiter and say you don’t have Whatsapp, for example.