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Apple has seemingly found a way to block Android’s new iMessage app (www.theverge.com)
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[–] 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Honestly for most people this is a crazy level of paranoia. The US government can know the metadata of my friends birthday party organization group.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    But why?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Because it's a significant inconvenience to disable those notifications over the very unlikely possibility that some bad actor will hoover that data up, much less do something nefarious with it.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Ah, fair enough.

    I realize now that I misunderstood the objection, I thought you were saying that using signal was an unreasonable level of paranoia, but I can totally see why turning off notifications seems that way.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    Honestly I don't care if the government knows who's all going to the party. Someone's gonna post pictures of it anyhow. My garbage data is just more stuff for them to sort through.

    And I'm not gonna bother missing out on everything out of fear that the government will do what exactly with my data? The risk is so low for your average person.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    I realize now that I misunderstood the objection, I thought you were saying that using signal was an unreasonable level of paranoia, but I can totally see why turning off notifications seems that way.

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