and if it doesn’t pass, it’s only a “permanent decision” until they make a trivial change and decide to make you vote again.

It’s funny, as the years have gone by I have gone from being a staunch Remain voter to being rather sceptical of the European project… I wonder why…

How about a system that you can volunteer to let your messages scan once.

Sick minds abuse the privacy by doing illegal things (child abuse, AI porn with faces of people who don't want to, drugs, weapons, killing on order), and that group is growing fast, then it is hard to say i want full privacy for all.

Social media algorithms make many people get into extreme in a negative way, that is something that wasn't their in the beginning of internet (before social media algorithms).

So how is client side scanning to be implemented on systems such as Wire that can be used in a web browser without needing to have the Wire app installed on a phone first or not using a phone app at all?

And what about open source secure chat apps such as qTox and Session? Will the projects be forced to implement client side scanning?

Groundhog day - again and again and again ...

I guess it will end once the $h17 has passed.

It's apparently based on some radio calls where pilots are making animal noises (like meowing).

It's supposedly an "inside joke" among the pilot community, someone overheard, someone misunderstood, and someone blew it out of proportion.

I've previously bought it on google play as that's been the easiest way to give support but switched over to the f-droid version after reading this.

Might eventually migrate my grandma to the playstore version for ease of updates though.. She's on the f-droid version today because she doesn't want to give google her payment info..

Different needs for different people I guess.. wishing all the best 🙂

"This effectively means I’m paying Google more than 1000 Euro per year for their service. [...] Apparently that amount of money doesn’t give me the privilege to talk to a fucking human for five minutes once per year."

Exactly. There's a "size" at which companies are inevitably crap. I'm so sick of support chatbots / ignored emails / looking for a bug report site that doesn't exist, when "open source" software shits the bed. Even when volunteering your help, it's closed doors.

I'm sad because revenue loss is not a good thing, but this will help in a lot of case when people use shitty phones that kills apps and don't want to pay to test a messaging sys...

I'm also very happy grant system recognize the usefulness of your work!

google still profits even if you don't put a monetary price on the program you know?

If you want to show google, the way to do so is to not list it on the played store and also work out how to compile the f-droid version without google's proprietary computer.

Wow, that's great for the #xmpp community.

Fortunately, I’m no longer economically dependent on Google Play Store revenue.

Good to hear that you have sustainable ways to generate income without google.

😕Our free, award-winning, violence prevention games for teens were yanked from Google Play.

After several years, Google Play removed our #nonprofit program's #free games about #consent and #healthyrelationships.

#Google said we *misclassified* the games as #educational which was grounds for removal.

We sent Google the school standards showing these topics must be taught. But it is pointless to explain such things to bots and/or call center folks who are not experts...

We even have published research in peer-reviewed journals showing the these games are an effective intervention -- but Google kept fighting our efforts.

Eventually, we gave up.

We still have our free games in Apple's App Store. And online for free browser play.

Congratulations on your success & your decision to stop enriching Google!