element webapp: “This homeserver would like to make sure you are not a robot.”
me: clicking on the checkbox to open the captcha
google: “Your computer or network may be sending automated queries. To protect our users, we can’t process your request right now. For more details visit our help page.”
I could turn off all my privacy settings, addons, and vpn, but that’s not really the point of using privacy-respecting services like matrix.
If you are using encrypted rooms the messages you send cannot be seen by the server admin. Yeah, they can check with which users and rooms you are talking to but not the content of the messages.
That’s true, they can’t see the contents of the messages, but the metadata is pretty considerable – i.e. they know what rooms you were in, when you were there, how long, and what it was called, including after you’ve left. “Seamus joined #IRAontheground and was immediately appointed to moderator, and sent 50,000 messages, but we don’t know what they said.”