I wanted to ask you how does such an extension make your browser more fingerprintable.

I’m still interested in an answer, but after looking at the code there’s a (actually not so) surprising turn: this thing sinply cannot live without remotely loaded google fonts (at addon startup) for some fucking reason.

that technically shouldn’t make you more fingerprintable, but the extension makes sure google is notified that you opened your browser.

yeah, they have other undiscovered vulnerabilities

no, I won’t pay for data mining services

oh, they have forked the linux kernel, so cute!
I mean, this is an individual forking it, not a group of people, right?

but reading the first 2 paragraphs, they are so full of shit that I wouldn’t trust them with a butter knife.

and then what’s the benefit of having veracrypt as a flatpak package? that it can be used with older dependencies? if so, is that a good thing to have for things that modify system startup?

they can, through the mechanism that also allows to install apps to your phone from the google play store website.

(part 2) technically, though, the other part of it is still the case: if you haven’t set yo key backup and you lost your phone, don’t be surprised if you can’t recover all your messages

that must be a relatively new feature

how do you block ads phone-wide?

Telegram isn’t really an alternative, they don’t even use encryption by default, so it should be faster

even the user interface? the animations all over the app, scrolling between 2 consecutive messages of a room or anywhere in the settings? It’s not like element would encrypt the data at rest anyway. any and all menus of telegram are noticeably smoother, when not even looking for it

(part 2) it doesn’t seem that signal has such a limit. maybe they’re just fine with using relatively a large part of their data for key storage

probably the same way, and probably with an upper limit on group chat member count

I think it’s actually Element X, Element Call and Element Server Suite, and they just did not want to write Element 3 times

I wouldn’t say it that harshly, the title is really not the best

you have said this

I’m blocking ads phone-wide

I wanted to let you know that such a countermeasure is not as effective as confining untrusted parties into a web browser with ublock

because it is not a free service, you are watching ads.

I may accept it if it was not bundled with data mining. and if they wouldn’t constantly increase prices

ublock is more efficient in the browser than any dns based blocking, as it can (and does) make changes to the website itself

my previous phone is not supported by current versions of element x. on the new one, I would probably not notice anything, because it’s not slow there and OS battery usage accounting is garbage.

currently I’m waiting for an F-droid release, as they are 3 months behind

Not only is it a successful Rust rewrite

only the crypto SDK is Rust, the frontend and other app code is kotlin

but they also fixed the system architecture of Matrix to improve speeds

they did that by storing a lot less of the state on your phone in my understanding, and that means it won’t work as whell when offline or on a slow connection, and will use more mobile data from the cap. that is, if I’m correct.

10% of what? keys are regularly rotated, per-member, and it would soon cost a lot of storage to store historical keys for very large rooms (by their member count)