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Guns don't cause violence. Just look at New Hampshire–lots of guns, low crime or violence.

Freedom is more important when we already have safety. People are trying to scare us into thinking we are unsafe so they can take away our freedom. We are very safe.


I agree we should also add live facial recognition to train stations.

No expectation of privacy in public does not mean we should eliminate privacy from public areas or allow our government to engage in mass surveillance.


> Lol how is that any better at all?

They are [1] implementing unlinkable payments so all that is known by credit card is that you purchased Signal and Signal doesn't know which credit card goes with which account.

>Signal is an obvious honeypot.

Claims without evidence can be dismissed without evidence. You might say they don't do enough to protect metadata privacy but it was never made to be an anonymous messenger, it was made to be a private messenger. You can easily check the end-to-end encryption in the code (reproducible builds on all platforms except iOS BTW!). This person audited Signal recently [2].

>They make no money and have no plans to.

They make money from donations and paid backups and they might make money from paid accounts.

[1] https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/commit/7da3357b5...

[2] https://soatok.blog/2025/02/18/reviewing-the-cryptography-us...


They could make it so all that is known by banks is that you purchased the service. Like how Nym does it or how you can buy Mullvad credits on Amazon.

https://nym.com/zk-nyms

Ideally they accept Monero and do unlinkable payments but I doubt they will accept Monero. Hopefully they accept some crypto.


Try Brave.

Do they still mitm sites to put their brave crypto donation buttons on, so you think a content creator is getting the money?

I've never seen anything crypto related once I set up the browser. What happened wasn't a MITM but they fixed it, right?

It's the only recommended Chromium browser by Privacy Guides. https://www.privacyguides.org/en/desktop-browsers/#brave


Their phone app doesn't have visual voicemail.

That sounds like a feature to me.

I don't know anyone under 70 that even has their voicemail set up.


It doesn't work without JS though.

Pings are blockable in Firefox and so are the event analytics requests triggered by Google's on-page JavaScript.

Defeatist totally wrong attitude. People are fighting back against flock and winning for example.

Signal reached 100 M MAU.

GrapheneOS has reached 500k estimated users.

Privacy is more of an issue today than ever before with more people caring about it.

Fisa 702 expired.

Cell network area searches determined to require a warrant by supreme court.

https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/02/17/privacy-is...


How are people winning against mass surveillance cameras?

There are a few fewer Flock cameras... because municipalities are switching to Axon and Motorola.


https://deflock.org/council#:~:text=City%20Council%20Meeting...

153 victories listed here. Do you think it's impossible to make our society more focused on privacy? Why be defeatist? Many things seemed terrible like womens or black people's rights in America but they fought and got their rights.

You are supporting the surveillance state if you propose giving up because privacy is already dead.


They were already tracking everything you click but for example if you want to send a link to someone you can't copy the link from the Google result and send it to them, you'd either send them the Google tracking link or go to the website yourself.

Brave search (free) or Kagi (paid) are able to replace Google and not feel like I'm missing out.

Brave has its own independent index which is cool.


I use kagi exclusively because it works. I get the results I need every time, and it's not annoying. I haven't used Google in years. Simply no need. I really hope people keep paying kagi so they stick around.

I hope you also know they're using Yandex as one of their indexes.

https://kagifeedback.org/d/5445-reconsider-yandex-integratio...

Uruky is the way. 2x cheaper also.


+1 for Kagi, even if Maps and Shopping and Images aren’t as good as Google (tbh their Images search is good enough 8/10 times) they’ve got the actual web search stuff working quite well.

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