I suspect most people that only use their Windows computer for general stuff like web browsing, e-mail, multi media, office etc., which is probably the majority by far, will actually fall for the subscription scam.
I suspect most people that only use their Windows computer for general stuff like web browsing, e-mail, multi media, office etc., which is probably the majority by far, will actually fall for the subscription scam.
If their spying algorithm is as easy to fool as Instagram’s, that wouldn’t be a major concern if I still used that bad fediverse clone.
I have one backpack I use for everything. I usually keep a 65W USB A+C charger and a 45W Powerbank with a small assortment of cables in there.
Now of course I have multiple USB-PD chargers and powerbanks, however all of those mysteriously disappear when I need them, making it necessary to use the backpack ones at home and being the clumsy dork I am, I always forget them there reducing the backpack charger count to zero. And guess when I come into a situation where I desperately need to recharge \ on the go?
Rain water? Seriously? God knows what’s in there. I truly build my water from source by burning pure hydrogen with pure oxygen.
And now you’ve got carmakers looking to charge by the month for features.
When I reach the point at which I am forced to buy a car like that, I’d just find out from where the feature gets controlled and hack in my own controller and a good 'ol switch.
I’m honestly astonished that Google hasn’t pulled the plug on Mozilla yet. After all, their missions completely and utterly oppose each other and Mozilla probably causes the biggest losses to Google.
If your prediction comes true, which isn’t unlikely, Firefox forks that already exist would probably take its spot. Or privacy friendly Chromium based browsers. I know, the latter sounds like an oxymoron, but they exist and one of them I would be hated on for naming has actually been proven to have better out of the box privacy than Firefox.
If you use a good 2FA app instead of Google Authenticator (yes, they can be used interchangably) you can use it on desktop and copy the OTPs to your clipboard. I personally use Authy, but others compatible with GA exist as well.
Also, 2FA is optional almost everywhere, but if you decide to not enable it, don’t act surprised if your accounts get taken over. These days a password just isn’t enough.
Security and convenience are just mutually exclusive and I don’t expect mankind to ever find a way around that fact.
That’s the most significant thing keeping me from relocating to America. I prefer not having to choose between physical and financial death.
It’s one of the reasons my next phone will be Android (with a non-spying custom ROM) instead of an iPhone. Although KDE Connect is already surprisingly powerful on the latter given the limitations of the platform.
I’ve gone to use the internet basically only on real computers and throwing a whole arsenal of annoyance and tracking blocking measures at it. The ‘vanilla’ internet experience has just become utterly unusable. If I use it on mobile, I do so in Brave as it is the only iOS browser that lets you use uBO filter lists and is able to fool websites into thinking you’re on desktop.
That looks easy enough even for me to play it