The original claim was about tracking (“escape the big tech tracking”), so here AWS and Cloudflare are definitely relevant. The content, including input, also flows through them I think? It’s specifically unencrypted if I get it right.

Thanks for your comment. I’m still only learning how legislation in the EU works. However, so far I haven’t been able to confirm what you’re saying. Could you help if you know? (I assume not only me, but possibly other readers, too)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_the_European_Union

Here it doesn’t say (almost) anything about “trade”. Admittedly I’ve only read 2-3 pages and then used Ctrl+F to search on the rest of the page though… Is it a de-facto split between the legislative powers of the Council and the Parliament? Where to read about it?

there is little doubt that EU chat control will be implemented

Personally, I believe there’s a chance for stopping this. EU is not an authoritarian state. I wouldn’t give up too early – instead would rather fight and provide public pressure for the direction of the law that supports mine and everybody’s freedom.

A much better and desired solution is to stop this law from ever happening by societal pressure, in my personal opinion. I wasn’t born in the EU, but I live here many years now. I choose to believe that EU isn’t fully corrupted, and that many good and meaningful changes are still happening.

Not even for now. It’s totally the opposite, this very Chat Control vote was to push it forward: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/reality-check-eu-council-chat-control-vote-is-not-a-retreat-but-a-green-light-for-indiscriminate-mass-surveillance-and-the-end-of-right-to-communicate-anonymously/

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If Europe doesn’t fight back strongly enough, Chat Control will be one such thing. All your messages being scanned by a “black box” system. Hopes are on the European Parliament and societal pressure to cancel this now. https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/reality-check-eu-council-chat-control-vote-is-not-a-retreat-but-a-green-light-for-indiscriminate-mass-surveillance-and-the-end-of-right-to-communicate-anonymously/

escape the big tech tracking by installing uBlock Origin

Cloudflare and AWS say “Hi” 👋

UBO is a very good tech that I strongly recommend too though. Just gotta be aware of its limits.

(If you’re ashamed to explicitly point out your country, then… I think you have to deal with that anyway. I don’t know if fighting against the bad actors in your country is a feasible strategy; it’s too easy to give poor advice from far away, imagining yourself an expert where in reality you’re not, so I’m not recommending anything.)

Sorry, *your* president, not mine. I don’t live in the US.

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What is a “Cambridge exam system”?

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What would be the equivalent number of car lanes and traffic lights to handle this traffic? 🤔

+1. Also, you can come visit the Netherlands and see if you want to stay here ^^

There are a lot of other perks besides cycling infrastructure. For starters, we don’t have Trump or generally the political system is not two-party…

… to google. (Not sure if it’s generalizable to 95% of for-profit corporations by the legal definition of for-profit. But we know for sure about google.)

Why should we care about an AI tailored to that one person whom many consider a fascist?

Negative publicity is also publicity. Please let’s rather ignore this stupidity.

There’s also OpenRA Romanov’s Vengeance, for people looking for this type of stuff. A WIP though, same as this project I think.

F-Droid has a copy of the source code I assume.

Good question, and I’m not fully sure. I think it may be the messengers, E2E or not. I hope it’s not the hardware providers such as Samsung/Apple, because those wouldn’t be trustworthy.

It’s not a full ending yet. It’s a local win. But the possibility for the proposed “voluntary” surveillance is still discussed. We need to push until April 2026 to make sure this sh*t doesn’t get through in any shape or form.

I’ve also edited the post slightly, adding a TL&DR; on top.