• dustyData@lemmy.world
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    22 days ago

    Why does every mobile keyboard developer have some controversial shit? I just want to text in peace.

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          22 days ago

          Just use wireguard and block all connections that aren’t going over VPN. Ezpz

          Also if you’re on a locked down device then you’re already feeding them plenty of data

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            22 days ago

            Using a VPN does absolutely nothing to protect from their apps scraping up and phoning home telemetry.

            It’s still YOUR phone. It’s still YOUR GPS location. It’s still YOUR data connection. A VPN is not a catch-all solution to privacy.

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              22 days ago

              VPN to your box somewhere else with proper filtering.

              I figured that was obvious

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                21 days ago

                That’s literally not how VPNs work nor are you aware of what you’re talking about.

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                  21 days ago

                  You literally don’t know what you are talking about.

                  You’re like a computer novice that is only aware of commercialized VPN products thinking you know what you’re talking about but unaware that the commercialized products are open source things that anyone can run, and you’re only paying for the company to run them on their boxes.

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                    21 days ago

                    rofl you offer no evidence, only insults. Yore a pathetic joke and you’re trying to make it my problem. Move along, loser.

                    My comment wasn’t about how open or closed VPNs are, you fucking moron. It was about how they’re not a silver bullet for protecting privacy.

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        21 days ago

        I know both are kinda terrible but isn’t a facist-developed GPL software better than Google software