Congrats on technically understanding how a VPN can work while completely misunderstanding how most public ones work in practice!

Like with phone carriers, ISPs can see the numbers (IPs) you are connecting to. If you use a VPN, you’re always connecting to the same IP, which is unusual from a regular user perspective and would tend to indicate VPN usage.

Sorry, I’ve had a lot of assholes telling people to use GrapheneOS like it’s super easy for most people to just go out and get a specific phone that is relatively low in market share (making them harder to find second hand too) like it’s as easy as running to the store for a loaf of bread and they get super aggressive when called out on it and it has, in turn, been pissing me off.

GrapheneOS is legitimately great IF you have a device that can run it, which most people don’t. A lot of it’s fans are raging assholes. Sorry for assuming you were one of them.

If you were already talking about limited storage on devices that typically can’t use SD cards, then yes, you’re a fucking idiot if you say “Just use an SD card to increase your storage! It’s EASY!” Which is what you’re doing when people are talking about Android issues and you say the same fucking thing about GrapheneOS.

TL;DR: There’s a moron here, but it isn’t me.

That’s not what scrolling means in this context. If you are intentionally seeking out specific information, you may need to scroll, but you aren’t “scrolling”.

It’s not an easy install if it literally can’t be fucking installed on most devices.

… what exactly do you think the phase “impossibly difficult” means? Because “impossible” is a level of difficulty ie. THEY ARE NOT DIFFERENT THINGS

Then don’t recommend it for people that can’t use it, JFC.

Because you’re doing it TO me. If it didn’t affect me I wouldn’t give a shit, but you smoking (well maybe not you specifically, I don’t know if you are careful about not smoking around people, but many smokers are not) DOES affect me.

My point is that if it requires a specific device that most people don’t have to install, then it is not easy to install for most people, because it literally cannot be.

Cool, I have a Samsung S23fe, please feel free to install it for me. I’ll wait.

Admittedly, being facetious there, but my point is that if it requires a specific device that most people don’t have to install, then it is not easy to install for most people, because it literally cannot be.

It’s so easy to install! You just need to be in the 3% of smartphone owners who actually have one! EASY!

rolls eyes

Parents ALREADY decided. They decided they didn’t give enough of a shit to use the parental controls already available to them. No legitimate reason to push this shit on everyone else.

Stop moving the goal posts. Also, no one has convincingly shown they can do that anonymously, but lots have shown they CAN’T. You can’t divorce the privacy implications because they are intrinsically linked right now and there is no evidence supporting the ability to unlink them.

When you go to purchase those things in person, you present your ID, but then it is given back. They do not keep your ID. They do not get to make a copy of it’s information for them to store and sell and track you with. It is presented at that particular moment, and then control of it is returned to you.

That is not the case with these digital ID requirements. With these digital ID requirements, they absolutely make and keep a copy. They absolutely use the information from that copy to track you and sell your data on to others. They use it to build a profile on you about your behaviours and purchases etc which will absolutely be used to tighten the noose of control. And we’ve already seen, over and over and over again that pretty much every time they claim they aren’t doing those things, they absolutely still are. Even if they weren’t, they’ve also repeatedly demonstrated a complete and utter inability to secure that data from third parties accessing it too.

It is completely different and enormously more invasive than presenting your ID in person.

Meanwhile, pretty much every Jewish person I’ve met in Canada has been horrified by Israel’s actions and whole-heartedly support the Palestinian people.

I will never give YT music money since they killed off Google Play Music (a far superior music app) to make it. I told them during the switchover the only way they would keep getting money from me was to not kill GPM, and so far, I’ve kept my word.

Yarr matey!

It takes you back to the previous view in the stack. Unless the current app was launched from a different app, there will be no other app in the view stack to go back to.

TL;DR: You’re full of shit, and anyone familiar with how Android handles view state under the hood knows it.

Android - provides a back button that has the same look, location and functionality system wide so that users don’t how to figure out how each individual application decide to implement (or not) go back functionality

Cousin Mose - the UI is attrocious.

Thanks for letting us know that no one should listen to your opinions on UI / UX ever lol