It's not about being a hassle to maintain, it's about users thinking they were sending secure messages when they weren't. The simplest explanation is that Signal is a secure messenger, so the app shouldn't let you send insecure messages. I'm sure it lost them a few users but they're not trying to gain maximum market share like for-profit orgs try to.

Drinking alcohol or buying it? Because in Britain it's 18 to buy it yourself but 5 to have it at home.

I hate and love this post, as Gollum hates and love The Ring and himself

When did the term change from CP to CSAM? Seems like everyone changed overnight.

Never mind the American politics nonsense, Brave has a history of slightly dodgy behaviour. Replacing websites ads with their own, keeping donations meant for creators, hijacking referral links and adding in their own, a lot of cryptocurrency shenanigans, and that's just what's on Wikipedia!

Will it though? It's essentially public info already, and is a core part of how Lemmy works.

Strange that the focus point of this article is rooting, you can modify your device to install custom firmware etc without needing root exploits anymore!

...doesn't have anything to do with warranty violation

The fact that anybody can just come into your session if they guess the room name correctly isn't optimal either.

If you ignore the warnings about an easily-guessable name, ignore the option to use a waiting room, and ignore the suggestions to use a password, yeah.

Tape your bank card to the back of your phone

Did we all forget the first rule of going online, to never share personal information, especially on a public forum!

FYI you don't need apps that pretend to be a VPN to block ads anymore, you can just go to Settings > Network and Internet > Private DNS and set it to something like dns.adguard.com to block almost all ads, no install required!