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Ew slop

My balls are fine on my bike.

The more you look, the worse it gets.

I assume you need to pay for exit node hosting + traffic, right? Which would be comparable to the price of a classic VPN.

Seems like you have bigger issues than corporate surveillance.

Bikes are great.

Nice webcam filter, OP

Could you guys please include the name of your country in the title?

Can’t decide what’s a better meme, this or installing Chrome over Edge 🤔🤔🤔

Very tired of reading what Musk says.

I think I prefer “children’s games” to organized crime and wars. Keeps competitve people busy.

I’d rather see Fairphone expand.

I guess the stuff I was worried about was contact list sharing, Google Advertising ID, installed app list, and who knows what else a native app can access. Good to know that Graphene has that protection, I guess I’ll worry less about using WA.

This is a good little story, I enjoyed reading it :)

Yes, having message history and a good desktop client are great benefits of a bridge.

Look up “Beeper”. It’s not about privacy, rather about convenience. They run bridges for you. Nothing went through the main app, but I had to authorize Beeper through WA as a separate session. It would die in 2 weeks with WA disabled, like I said, but I guess if I kept WA enabled this wouldn’t have happened.

I’ve seen WA mods (basically rebuilt .apk files), but I don’t know much about them, and therefore they seem shady.

This summer? I disabled the WA app on my phone, though, so there was no background activity.

My matrix app (an Element fork) had several bridges and multiple chats, I feel like they were all synching in the background. I haven’t noticed that when I was at home, but when I was camping, battery going from 100% in the evening down to 70% in the morning was a problem.

I used a setup like that, but there were 2 things that I didn’t like

• I had to keep Whatsapp on my phone and open it every 2 weeks, because without it the bridge would just die (so why not just use it anyway?).
• The app I had used a lot off battery, which was a dealbreaker for bike/backpacking trips.

Unlike some of you here, I actually do.