Keyword: convenient

This will start a civil war

The US could use one right now.

To someone else, the unrelated slave owning context may just be tightly coupled with that word,

Considering slavery was abolished in the US in 1865, no one alive ever felt what it’s like to be a slave.
Most people moaning about this are virtue-signaling.
And corpos only do it to avoid lawsuits.

Oh, unless you mean wage-slaves, then i’m onboard!

All banks literally require

In your part of the world…

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I think you mean IRC replacement.

Would I be paranoid to use a VPN

Or tor.

Google is not killing sideloading. If the dev is willing to submit

I see…

the term “sideloading” is pretty irrelevant.

No, it’s not.
“Installing” is innocuous and easily understandable (by those tech-illiterate dumbfucks that get spoonfed FUD by lobbyists); whereas sideloading is eerily similar to sidestepping and is prone to being interpreted as “working around a safeguard”.

Words are not irrelevant.

Eh… we may be bipolar then… weird.

how banking apps are mandatory.

This i don’t get, i’d rather use home-banking from my home PC.

That’d be like your car deciding which roads you can take,

It’s a feature for the next release, don’t worry.

collective action is our strongest pressure against them

Which is why governments fight so much to make it hard.
In my neck of the woods it’s not cool to unionize and there’s no home owners’ association, people only rally for their favorite sports team but don’t bother voting.

I guess we get what we deserve.

Americans are funding all of this crap with the, albeit controlled, choices we make with our money.

To an extent, yes, but the dollar has been decoupled from gold a long time ago, they can literally just print money in the billions and they do (although there days it’s probably money++ on a mainframe), completely sidestepping tax money…

A big problem is that people need smartphones for so much of modern life.

Do you though? They’re convenient, for sure, but you can also use a dumbphone and a laptop.

You mean less worse, but worry not, google’s catching up.

You sound paranoid but it doesn’t mean you aren’t right, at least to some extent.
So what’s your solution for secure messaging?

XMPP was sabotaged by google (and meta) but is still alive and well.

I just don’t understand: why the fuck are you so pussy-whipped by Google that you’re stanning their blatant power grabs?

Probably works at google or is a fanboy.

I think SimpleX removes the need for static relays.