There’s really not much you can do. There’s just too many cameras in the public spaces. If any government official wants to see who’s visited an abortion clinic, they can just have the local traffic camera company tell them.

We need to ban the government getting around the 4th amendment by partnering with private companies.

Given the context, I would be most concerned that they’re not asking for verification when they have some way you’re already being tracked.

You know what would be a really easy way to confirm if Proton is sometimes requiring email verification? Just look on their own website, where they openly say they do it.

The question isn’t whether they’re doing this. It’s whether they’re actually doing it to “prevent spambots,” or if they’re employing it when they need more info to track who’s signing up.

I don’t know what to tell you. Tried it yesterday, and it required an email to verify.

I just tried it yesterday. Definitely required an email for verification.

Sounds fair to me!

Been waiting for intellectual property reforms for so long, at this point I’d be willing to abandon IP laws entirely. It’s holding the species back.

It’s more difficult to run government psyops on mastodon.

That’s nice. But you should get a gun. Much more effective fighting method than deleting an app.

Then you’re supporting diminished privacy.

Totally. You should assume yours is being tracked if they’re not asking for verification.

I just loaded up a Linux vm with Brave, and tried to sign up in a tor window. It requires a verification email to sign up.

Maybe you’re using a browser or OS that it’s tracking.

Try it now. Load up a tor tab in the Brave browser, and try signing up for an email without providing any info.

No shit, Sherlock.

Nope. Try doing it through a Tor node.

Too bad private email access is essentially dead. Any service not requiring another email or phone number to sign up gets quickly shut down. A casualty in the war on whistleblowers.

I’m pretty certain my country banned Kaspersky because they kept outing western backdoors and malware. And I would bet my life that Windows has supported free use government backdoors since at least Windows 10.

It was the right move, but this needs to be expanded. Assume there are state actors from all of the major countries installing backdoors.

The digital war front will be getting hit from all sides. We need extreme paranoia to protect all of the innocent bystanders. Don’t assume even your own country is trustworthy in this.

Wow. You guys got lucky. All the users I supported with them had constant issues.

I’m seriously shocked your surface is still running. I’ve never seen one last more than a year, and they usually required a lot of troubleshooting to keep them going that long.