[–] 19 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Tuta cancelled my free account because their automated system detected fraud. This occurred after 24 hours of updating my contacts within Tuta and signing up for some services. I appealed and they only apologized for the inconvenience but kept the account closed.

Other people have posted similar stories but after a YEAR of use their email randomly because inaccessible. So Tuta isn't a viable alternative for me as a Proton user.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago*

    I had this mindset until signing up with a bank that only uses its app for 2FA of any kind. No SMS option. No TOTP code option. So anytime you log in using a a mobile or desktop browser it would require opening the mobile app (running google play services OR having an iPhone).

    The only option I found to keep using this bank was to disable 2FA entirely.

    Which is dumb.

    But it was related to using a bank in a new country on GrapheneOS and Aurora Store version not fully working without Play Services and it turns out all banks suck here and not worth changing banks and there's not much money in this account anyway so just...sigh.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    I remember all the hand wringing in the govt decades ago about media violence and video game violence and violent lyrics because "what about the children!?"

    And now the govt is going to publicly livestream an execution?

    And how many right wing parents will justify this because "these are criminals and murderers who deserve it!"

    Makes my head hurt.

    Wonder if there will be age verification required since that's so en vogue now.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    Okay so I can see my dad replying to this with "oh no McDonald's might guess what burger I order before I order it..."

    Privacy being infringed is one problem. Getting people to care is another.

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    I'm probably overthinking it, but I'm interested to hear how people approach this.

    So I'm leaning more into FOSS and degoogling, so I ordered a Pixel for GOS.

    However, I recently learned that GOS recommends Play Store before any FOSS app stores.

    That kind of broke my brain and had me evaluating my goals and philosophy.

    Do you folks just set up a different GOS profile for Google stuff and keep using apps from Play Store without a second thought?

    Or do you lean into FOSS apps as much as possible?

    Or do you try to self-host as much as you can?

    I'm kind of just looking for a North Star to follow here.

    I've been self-hosting with Immich and Nextcloud for a couple of months and thought I had a new philosophy to live by, hence the Pixel purchase and GOS plans.

    However, learning that the values of GOS don't align perfectly with FOSS has disrupted my posture a bit.

    It's not very satisfying straddling privacy-centric apps/services alongside popular services that want all your data, especially taking into consideration the efforts required to go down the path of more privacy.

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