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There is GrapheneOS too:

https://nitter.mailstation.de/DanielMicay

You are not illogical:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28714516

Not just destroy, destroy and steal too. Because why not.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/16/22676706/apple-watch-swip...

From February this year - Apple App store is home to multi-million dollar scams. The method the guy used to find this is so childish it's a wonder how Apple could have missed. Also Apple employs some dark patterns if you wanna report scams.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/8/22272849/apple-app-store-s...

This isn't true. The phonebook we had had only Name, Phone number and very broad location. Also those days, phone number was just that - a phone number. Nowadays it's a unique identifier for lots and lots of things including government stuff. Some government stuff even uses it for authentication/authorization.

Also I guess user ID means it gives access to their fb profile page I guess? From there one can scrape pics etc (public ones).

Some might laugh this off as 'oh it's just scraping'. But I remember reading some comments in HN that there are apps that can scan faces and pull personal info including where they live, work etc. So each leak uncovers a person little by little.

This vindicates the stance taken by Signal to not even collect metadata.

Edit: I mean surreptitiously scan the face of a stranger you see in public and the app will tell you about them. Don't know names of the apps.

Signal is welcoming everyone:

https://nitter.mailstation.de/signalapp/status/1445062426739...

There's also Prodfiler from Halvar Flake and friends.

https://prodfiler.com/

Some links supporting this view:

[1] https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters/issues/761

[2] https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters-ansible/issues/45

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18734999

[4] https://web.archive.org/web/20181221180137if_/https://twitte...

[5] https://web.archive.org/web/20181221231556if_/https://twitte...

[6] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27549604

[7] https://slate.com/technology/2014/04/brendan-eich-why-mozill...

So, are they making millions?

Pinboard is a good one. You can even upload PDFs etc and search the text within the PDF. Paid though. It's cheap.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinboard_(website)

Desktop site: https://pinboard.in/

Mobile site: https://m.pinboard.in/

iOS/iPadOS/macOS app: https://get-pins.app/

Yeah. So irritating. Adblock Plus is owned by Eyeo GmbH which supposedly earns millions through it's 'acceptable ads' program.

[1] https://nitter.mailstation.de/gorhill/search?f=tweets&q=%22e...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adblock_Plus

[3] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

Edit: Just use 'Ublock Origin' instead.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UBlock_Origin