Calling masked, armed, armored thugs and terrorists with a disregard for the law a “vulnerable group” is a bit thick, isn’t it?
Vulnerable to Fascism?
Well, I’m sure they wouldn’t give encryption keys away.
VulnerableSusceptible
“You just uninstalled Chrome We’re sorry to see you go. Please help us improve Google Chrome by filling out this short survey. Your feedback is appreciated.” And…no link to any survey provided, so I can’t tell them why they can go fuck themselves. I still use Youtube non premium, with an ad blocker, but I’m open to any suggestions for a replacement site…
Only just discovered it last night, so, not sure what it really has to offer
It was said to have a nazi problem a while ago. Has that changed? I don’t see anything too problematic on the front page right now.
The front page I’m getting is certainly kind of smelly
Yeah I noticed some pepes later
Didn’t know about this. I’m gonna have to do a little research I think
PeerTube, but it cant be called an alternative (yet)
Any man with a mask is a threat to me and my immigrant wife. I do not give a fuck if the patch says “POLICE”. Here, get one on Amazon, anyone can.
I am armed everywhere I travel past my front yard. I am armed on my shitter. Insane, I know, but that’s where America is at. I am on a fucking hair trigger. Course ICE isn’t around here, we rednecks are well armed. Funny how that works out.
Another reason is that your fellow rednecks, by and large, are all for this shit.
Oh? Are we giving them privacy?
if they have nothing to hide, they have nothing to fear
Yeah, maybe it would be in our interests to make all government communications public access. If it isn’t a matter happening outside our borders, have it open. Maybe a classification for certain discussions that requires they be released in a timely manner, and when reviewed by a 3rd party if any information is attempted to be hidden they are immediately removed from their position and an investigation starts as to whether the offense should be criminal.
The timely manner would have to be monitored as in “we are going to performing a drug raid” they get a warrant that allocates them 2 days to have discussions pertaining to that topic, organize and execute it. Then release all communications immediately following. If they don’t believe they can perform it in that time they need to submit it in their warrant request as to the reason why, time period, and date the information will be made public.
If we wrote strict laws on it, the judges would be held accountable for giving out warrants brazenly, and the executive branch would be kept in check by such
Maybe we should consider some sort of informational freedom act.
Ah yes… the guys with masks, guns, the backing of the president, and virtually unlimited federal government resources are a “vulnerable group”
Vulnerable my aunts fanny. They aggressively terrorize everywhere they go. Go everywhere armed to the teeth and are not in any way shape or form threatened with anything or anyone that could harm them sufficiently to put them into a threatened category. This is just google telling us whose side they are on
Heil Agent Orange 🍊🧡
That’s for real men, not Agent Bone Spurs
I cannot say how much I Wish this would be the onion…
The agents who implement state violence are not a group. They’re agents of the state.
And now Google is directly collaborating with an oppressive autocratic regime.
Curiously, while in character, it’s about the stupidest thing companies can do, at least according to Mike Brock
But yes, corporations are notoriously short-sighted when it comes to autocrats, even with a long history of ultimately getting their assets seized by the autocratic regimes they assisted into power.
I’d like to think this all might be a time to teach common end-users the joys of FOSS and, if necessary, jailbreaking, but that’s still a big ask for the general public even in the face of abduction and rendition.
Ew
Google Calls Gestapo Agents a Vulnerable Group, Removes Gestapo-Spotting App ‘Red Dot’
Don’tbe evil.The 1 million dollar question: Would I be able to side load it with the new Google developer registration rules?
lol
Federated solutions which can’t be stopped, self hosted, and available via Fdroid.
Only real answer.
Until Google revokes publishing privileges for side-loading applications. I think we’ll have to go further and get used to making PWAs and regular websites.
side-loading
You mean “installing normally.” “Sideloading” is fucking anti-property-rights loaded language.
Do you have a better, simple word for what they’re banning?
“Ownership.”
Loading non-playstore apps?
installing?
downloading and installing programs.
But they’re not banning downloading and installing programs. What are they blocking, specifically?
They’re banning programs from being installed unless the installation has their consent
Isn’t there somebody you forgot to ask?
They’re banning non google-drmed app installs
What do you call installing an application on a computer?
I say “I
apt-getit”
Good point. Wild how these ghouls have normalized their bullshit language.
Allow vendors to completely control what apps run on your phone and banning websites and PWAs becomes trivial for them. Browsers are apps.
I can’t believe Steve Jobs was right all along.
Steve Jobs just didn’t have the right foresight. PWA’s were a solution when the web was supposed to be the future of applications distribution. If he knew native apps were still the future and in app advertising and microtransactions were going to be where all was at, he would never have pushed PWA’s. Steve was a salesman first and foremost
He believed if he made quality products, that the stock price increases all the soulless capitalists demanded would follow. Which of course they did. Then Tim Apple took over, and quality went out the window in favor of stock buybacks. Kind of like Boeing.
Right? A well protected browser is about the best tool in this shi-nternet future.
Back before iOS had apps, webapp devs were clever AF. There was Beejive web for multi-IM and all sorts of clever stuff.
One can still put an icon for webapps on the home screen, and the OS even displays it as a full screen app. (Android has similar but not as elegant.)
Google started using buzzwords of sideloading as to make a boogeyman security issue, to get people to side with them. its just installing, other than thier main store.
They can only do that to phones running gapps
All phones run gapps by default, other than those in Mainland China, that is.
The issue with this is that like 95% of android devices run android with gapps and re-imaging your phone is becoming increasingly more difficult as manufacturers lock down their bootloaders. Normies who aren’t technical are not gonna want to mess with that shit. I’m not saying this to instill hopelessness but highlighting that it’s a challenge.
For censorship circumvention, mainstream tech is gonna continue to be increasingly useless. We need to educate people about these matters and also try to encourage people to lean heavily into decentralised comms like lora/meshtastic
How about web apps or even regular sites with a mobile friendly UI?
