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.
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.”