US authorities reportedly investigate claims that Meta can read encrypted WhatsApp messages A lawsuit filed last week alleges tech firm ‘can access virtually all’ private communications, a claim the company has denied

Also: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

I can't believe billions of people still use something under Meta

This Meta:
localmess.github.io

www.theregister.com/2010/05/14/f...

www.gadgetreview.com/reddit-user-...

What are the apps in the Secrets folder? I only recognize Bitwarden and Aegis

If you haven't read yet:

indianexpress.com/article/opin...

Crawlersssss, scrape me HARDERRRR!!!!

Screenshot of article https://www.theverge.com/news/693310/whatsapp-ai-message-summaries-meta Showing the headline "Whatsapp rolls out ai generated summaries for private messages"

if this thing (meta AI icon) is triggering you, probably it's time... Switch to Delta Chat, visit https://get.delta.chat in 5 min your chats will be freed.

Screenshots of android and desktop delta chat apps from the https://delta.chat website

We used to look closely at #whatsapp Usability/UX. Not anymore.

Meta is enshittifying WA to become a social media app, charging companies for access to followers, showing ads, and pushing AI slop down the throat of billions of people.

#deltachat remains all […]

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...he says to Signal's president

Fedora

Unfortunately it's the default in my OS

Which one I may ask? :P

When will be pocket completely removed from Firefox?

Librewolf >>> 🎈🎈

@firefox.com I'm asking about native offline llm like Ollama support in Firefox. Firefox brought offline translation support before all other browsers. I hope Firefox would bring this feature like Brave :)

And if you were asked to choose one? :P

cc: @firefox.com

cc: @mozilla.org

@mozilla.ai offline llm (ollama) support in Firefox like @brave.com when?

#whatsapp has been feverishly copying #telegram features the last year. Both are now in a battle who enshittifies faster. Mr. Durov announced that #Telegram, sitting on the biggest cleartext data and metadata pile second only to #Meta, is to integrate "AI" the next days, see […]

GitHub - secureblue/Trivalent: A hardened chromium for desktop Linux inspired by Vanadium. A hardened chromium for desktop Linux inspired by Vanadium. - secureblue/Trivalent

It got per-site permission and so, and Chromium team is already doing their part. But well, most folks including Mozilla and Brave criticize it saying it's an attack on adblockers and is against completely disabling Manifest v2 which gives full permission. Also see: github.com/secureblue/T...

Have you heard of Manifest v3?

@mojeek.com :)

archive.today/3Qpoc

Big Brother is at it again with dubious claims about encryption. Don't buy into his nonsense; please check out this awesome article: soatok.blog/2024/05/14/i...

If you're wondering what to use instead, there is only one answer: @signal.org

#Telegram #Signal #Privacy

Vivaldi still looks ugly in Ubuntu / gnome out of the box tho :/

Fair enough, looks like a great app. Good luck!

Is there an Android app?

Cwtch | Cwtch Metadata-Resistant Messaging

Choosing a private chat app? This is what I recommend:
- Privacy without anonymity (for chatting with friends & family): signal.org
- Privacy with anonymity (for tips from anonymous senders): docs.cwtch.im

#privacy #anonymity #infosec

@signal.org Is there a plan to use Flutter for Signal desktop app for better security?

Despite rumors: .IO domain names aren't going away | Tuta Great Britain is returning its overseas territory Chagos Islands to Mauritius. Will this affect the .io tld domain?

tuta.com/blog/what-ha...

Also it's not fully-fledged like Vivaldi, like if you add Hacker News, you can't go to comment and source section. It just enters the URL directly :/

It would nice if Brave could check for rss / atom feed support of website visited and show feed icon on address bar like Vivaldi to add it