someone who knows everything about you can easily manipulate or even blackmail you

To that end, the ability for people to not only fabricate completely new evidence, but also manipulate existing evidence, I think deserves a lot more attention.

For example, imagine the damage someone can do simply by taking leaked corporate data and slightly messing with it. Who second-guesses the accuracy of leaked data?

the “nothing to hide” argument implies that if you want to keep certain aspects of your life private (i.e., hidden), you must have done something wrong

What has also become more sinister as of late is that the definition of "wrong" can change at the whim of whoever is running your government right now.

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Protip: Run a socks5h proxy server on the pi that does not use its own DNS resolver. Then FoxyProxy on your browser with the default being off/direct. Then whenever you need it, switch that one tab to use the proxy to bypass your blocking.

why now all of a sudden

It's not new though, it has been happening for years. Selection bias might be skewing your view.

Bus 001 Device 059: ID 05ba:000a DigitalPersona, Inc. Fingerprint Reader

It shows up exactly the same for all the revisions though.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/apr/29/five-people-killed-in-south-east-texas-shooting-cleveland

I don't have a precise answer as I'm not from that team, but as a developer I think I have a decent idea as to why, and it's mostly political.

First, I don't think it's necessarily the ability to install Play Services that makes them think it's not FOSS, but that they distribute non-free firmware blobs which are necessary to make practically any modern phone function properly, that's just the unfortunate reality because "we live in a society" that enables it. By that logic, I think they believe the vast majority of running Linux kernels on the planet are not FOSS. GNU would rather have things that are not practical and don't exist today... their stance is not currently realistic in our capitalist society IMO. They hope for things to change, but hope doesn't make change.

I also think some people look down on the Play Services thing merely because they went out of their way to explicitly support it in the OS, and basically nothing else. They disagree ideologically with F-Droid and they don't offer any other app stores by default to my knowledge.

If the MX record for the domain goes directly to gmail, then no there's no reason to pay for email through anyone else, it's not used at all.

That depends on your threat model. What are you worried about?

Doesn't really matter if you're not positioned to be able to defend your license in court.

Please stop spreading FUD.

1. The encryption used by Signal would not be used if it could be easily broken. It's fully open source and is regularly audited. People would not recommend it if it were so broken like you say; this is just fearmongering.

2. lol, lmao even

Well do you want useful stats or not /s

But seriously, a lot of opt-in (that never get opted in to) data is insanely useful for developers, but it has such a bad stigma that we never get anywhere close to the amount of usefulness a larger dataset could provide.