Sadly that's how big companies win Most of the public don't care about the so called "privacy" and prefer to use what they're already using. I tried to get a Matrix going, we had a few members but the server has fallen off into deadness, with Discord still being the main go to.

I've heard good things about Mullvad I think is what it's called? My other go to, less good VPNs are Windscribe and ProtonVPN ProtonVPN cause it's run by the guys who made ProtonMail so I trust em, sorta. Windscribe cause it's cheap, but they are Canadian based so in terms of privacy, who knows.

Better than nothing, and I don't exactly fully agree with the article For example it says allowing from unknown sources is unsafe. But that's literally how you get stuff like F-Droid

In a more optimistic view, these are what I expect MS to do it they do end up buying discord. Since there's already Nitro + Game Pass promos, they might bundle those 2 together Maybe some kind of Discord VC for Xbox, would be pretty cool? Microsoft Account requirement will probably come in the future (see Minecraft) And of course they'll move it off Google Cloud onto Azure (see Minecraft Realms AWS to Azure) Or they could end up making it free (see github private repos) and taking the route of selling your data or a long term investment of sorts?

Eh, Nitro is already monetization. I'm expecting some kind of deal with game pass tbh

I've tried Guilded before, it's still pretty early in dev, a lot of stuff isn't on the mobile app it in general does feel slow I do hope it becomes larger but it'll take time

(disclaimer haven't read article just looking at thumbnail) This reminds me of those gels in Portal 2

Windows? Could be Delivery Optimization Aka turning your PC into a P2P node for windows updates.

Neuralink is looking too creepy...

I'm a Firefox user, any reaosns/benefits for me to move to Brave (other than thar Mozilla tweet down bellow) Also hasn't brave done some slightly sketchy stuff by redirecting some site links to their affiliated versions or have they stopped that?

Honestly, if someone is already making the switch to Signal, they probably already know Facebook's reputation How is shoving one last ad in your face going to make you download Messenger, unless they hope you download the wrong thing by accident

If you import the Chinese version there's technically no google But that's a terrible solution to the problem Since xiaomi's android skin, MIUI, does quite the tracking Luckily you can just unlock the bootloader and flash a Custom Rom such as Lineage os Just give it some time for Roms to come (note, if the device uses a Mediatek SoC, then reconsider your choices as Roms are usually not as good for them)