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Re:Privacy Sandbox on Android by smoldesu on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @01:01PM (#30363311)
And Aol, and Skype, and YouTube and Facebook and Yahoo and Microsoft[0]. The domestic surveillance nightmare never ends! We on HN laugh about this stuff and love to make noise about E2EE and whatnot, but the battle was lost decades ago. There's nothing left, privacy is a myth from a different era of the internet.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program)#/...

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Re:Privacy Sandbox on Android by fsflover on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @02:52PM (#30364839)
> There's nothing left, privacy is a myth from a different era of the internet.

GNU/Linux phones (Librem 5 and Pinephone) are here to help.

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Re:Privacy Sandbox on Android by hughrr on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @04:08PM (#30365694)
Well they would be if anyone actually owned them.
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