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Illegal and immoral. How can anyone trust these people with personal data and access to your devices?

We have allowed empires to be built on scummy business practices that are fundamentally user hostile. We are under no obligation to maintain them.

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The worst is the implicit social shame when you tell people you would prefer to use something like signal or telegram to mitigate risk.

This shit is on literally every platform, it's inescapable, and at this point necessary to participate in society.

I've actually been reassured by how many of my more thoughtful friends have appeared on Signal (and other less well-known but more trustworthy tools) recently. Sure, lots of people are just using something like Zoom or one of the Facebook-owned privacy invaders, but I get the feeling that with so many more people relying on these tools for both personal and professional reasons because of the virus situation, awareness of the issues is at least in moving-the-needle territory now. It's not much, but it's still progress in the right direction.

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