Samson Option.

How does Taiwan fit into all of this?

How the heck does the world “negate” or oppose Israel with the Samson Option running around?

People in asia seem to have an infatuation with Russia even before the palestine issue became prominent. It’s sickening.

The only good thing about it I see is that it’s a necessary counter-balance against the US and its imperialism, perhaps.

Yeah hadn’t realized the spanish/portuguese thing, assumed indigenous folk spoke it but I realize it’s usually some different native thing.

I’m glad it’s better over there, because in my [limited] friend group and family, nobody is pro-ukraine.

Ah so the people there are still ethnically brazillian/argentinian right? i.e. the people are indigenous themselves, just not the rulers? or are the majority of people of european descent too?

Argentina and Brazil are colonial entities? Please elaborate, haven’t heard before.

Edit: How the hell do people deal with Israel given its Samson option??

I’m glad I’m finally seeing someone else that’s actually both pro-palestine AND pro-ukraine for once. It’s usually mutually exclusive — I don’t understand why. Literally every single pro-palestine person I’ve seen otherwise has been pretty vocally anti-Ukraine.

Is having an algo off the table? Xcancel doesn’t give you a feed, just searches. coomer mostly has women on it, do you happen to know of any focused on men?

thanks anyways, though. appreciate it.

Yeah I meant a social media platform that’s image-based. Things like Pinterest, Instagram, and to some extent X/twitter.

As for thirst content. Well. If you’re not 18+, can’t say.

What does Privacy@lemmy exist for?

I responded to the aspects of your argument that weren’t personal attacks. Personal attacks, yes, I am not interested in.

‘‘Industry standard’’ doesn’t mean anything. Government surveillance and everything this sub stands against is ‘‘industry standard’’. Just because everyone’s doing it doesn’t mean it’s a good thing.

I ‘‘singled out’’ Proton because it was the VPN I used the most prior. I’m not sure why that’s a problem.

Are you able to discuss things based on criticisms of logical reasoning and evidence, or are you going to continue to respond with personal attacks? I am open to critique.

The concern is primarily about not letting Israel have my data; payments towards them isn’t. What would you recommend in terms of layering security? I am currently degoogling, getting rid of Meta apps, and switching from american for-profit socials to FOSS alternatives.

To summarize, are you saying your trust in Mullvad’s ability to safely host in Israel comes from its decision to relinquish prized features to resist interpol searches?

I’ve only recently started looking into privacy so much of it goes over my head.

I don’t use mails for communication, but I’d just like to limit the amount of information/tracking that corporate overlords can collect of me if I can help it (subscriptions mostly and the demographic information they imply, I suppose).

Just because mullvad and most other VPNs do something, doesn’t mean it’s good.

Israel is known for a level of surveillance that most other countries aren’t.

The rest of what you’ve said is just ad hominem I’m not interested in.

The focus on this post was primarily the surveillance and lack of privacy Israel is known for, though genocide is obviously not a good look either. Relating themselves to Israel in anyway does lower the company’s reputation and the trust it inspires.

I am admittedly not tech-savvy so I’m not really able to understand the fine print myself, though if they conducted their operations within israel that’d definitely be alarming from a surveillance pov. I’m not sure it would register as merely “some metal” to me, if that were the case.

However I know they’re in Switzerland and I don’t have any idea how “exit Nodes” and the sort function.

Yeah that is what I meant, I’m guessing you meant to reply to the other guy, not me?

Unideal? Yes

Does that mean I stop trying altogether to minimize surveillance? No.