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"We cannot have a society in which, if two people wish to communicate, the only way that can happen is if it's financed by a third person who wishes to manipulate them."
Jaron Lanier
"How We Need to Remake the Internet"
Ted Talk 2018

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"When I started this blog, I embraced some free services, like Disqus or Google Analytics. These services are quite invasive for users’ privacy." https://vincent.bernat.im/en/blog/2018-more-privacy-blog yup! About time everyone got rid of these.

I have deleted my account today after a month campaigning to my friends to move to . Surprisingly, most of them are using Signal now!

Even if you use it alongside WhatsApp, at least your contacts won't be greeted with an empty contact list if and when they install it.

My reasons for ditching WhatsApp: yogster.blog/post/you-should-b

Hi! I have started writing about and , economy and society.

Check it out! I hope it resonates with you...

yogster.blog/post/a-new-global

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Facebook has been collecting call history and SMS data from Android devices
160 comments
iOS devices appear to be unaffected
theverge.com/2018/3/25/1716094

Facebook scraped call, text message data for years from Android phones [Updated]
Maybe check your data archive to see if Facebook’s algorithms know who you called.
arstechnica.com/information-te

#facebookisevil #deletefacebook