Not just download the app, but sign up for an account (and the newsletter in the process).

Then grant permissions to your phone:

• camera (so it can watch you poop and train + analyze the footage with AI)
• microphone (so it can hear and analyze if your plops are optimal)
• contacts (to send out an invitation to all your contacts, along with a clip of your last poop sesh)
• photos and videos (to upload, store, and analyze your life since birth, along with everyone else who’s in your pictures)
• sensors (to see how you’re holding the phone, when, how much, how hard, etc.)
• notifications (to sell you the premium plan)
• location (for pinpoint accuracy of your 💩 locations)
• call logs (to see who you’re communicating with before, during, and after you drop your log)
• nearby devices (for accuracy and to silently communicate with nearby devices)
• calendar (for full history and to schedule your next mondo duke)

A rip in the multiverse. Source: trust me bro

Sounds like it. It happens with other Google services too. Someone could share a GDoc to your non-Gmail email, but if that non-Gmail email isn’t a Google account, then you won’t be able to access the doc/comments/whatever else (depending on the doc permissions, of course).

I suppose “harm” can be subjective in this context, and there are already some good replies here.

One more thing to add to the list that I’d consider harmful in creating a Gmail account is all of the privacy issues that come with having a Gmail account.

Out of respect for my recipients and myself, I wouldn’t want all of our emails being read.

We can go down the rabbit hole of “Email is inherently insecure anyways,” but that’s a separate discussion.

Nice to see this as a standard, thanks. Edited to reflect this.

Cases like these are why this extension exists: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/don-t-fuck-with-paste/

Don’t worry, it’s not complicated at all. A little inconvenient maybe, but that’s always the trade-off when it comes to privacy and security.

Here are the two most convenient ways that I can think of on each OS.

iOS: Bookmark the frontend URL. When you get sent a link, pop open the page and paste the TikTok URL.

Android: Get Firefox and set it as your default browser. Install the LibRedirect add-on (browser extension). Whenever you get sent a URL, just tap it and it’ll automatically get redirected to the privacy-friendly frontend.

Only time will tell.

I know this one also went down recently for Instagram: proxigram.privacyfrontends.repl.co

But I’m not sure if it was an Instagram change that did it, or Replit took it down or what.

See my comment above

Most of my friends know better than to send me TikTok links. But for the few who still do, I use this open source frontend called ProxiTok.

To get TikTok links to redirect automatically on click, use the LibRedirect extension.

At least you can say the experience was lit

Selena - No Me Queda Más

Arctic Monkeys - 505

Eminem - Headlights

GnR - November Rain

“Being simple’s a yes, being skilled is a not/ Having substance is lame, using substance is hot”

“Been public enemy since you thought ‘PE’ was gym, biiiitch!”

Daily:

• Signal
• GrapheneOS
• Bitwarden
• Firefox/Mull
• VPN
• Baserow

Not daily:

• Lemmy
• Mastodon
• Pixelfed
• Invidious
• Cryptomator
• Aegis
• Penpot
• Aurora
• LocalSend
• OSM
• Obtanium
• Voyager
• Open Video Editor
• OpenScan
• Cryptee
• Element

Our cognitive biases are fascinating, aren’t they

How did you pull Mull into Obtanium? When I paste the GitLab URL into Obtanium, it says that there’s no APK found.

Synology Photos. I’ve heard Immich is quite good too.

Who doesn’t like an underdog? 😤

For some people it’s easy, for others it isn’t, and/or they’re afraid of messing it up.

This is the secondary reason why I created SwapMyOS, a GrapheneOS installation service that kicks back a percentage of every order to the GrapheneOS nonprofit to keep it funded.

Primary reason was to keep GrapheneOS alive and funded.