LWD

You should have looked at my comment history before making a fool of yourself.

Hotznplotzn is not a "good shill" for being on your side. They mix decent sources with abominably inaccurate and pro-surveillance ones.

Israel demanded data related to nearly 700 push notifications as part of a single request.

Rookie numbers IMO. But why "nearly 700" - did Israel already know the quantity of notifications, or was that a number they arrived at with Apple's help?

according to the data, the U.S. made 99 requests for push token data related to 345 different push tokens, and received data in response to 65 of the requests between July and December 2023. The U.K. made 123 requests, about 128 tokens, and received data in response to 111...

These raw numbers are smaller but, based on my relative knowledge, scarier. I believe **tokens don't represent single notifications, they represent all notifications to a single app on your phone **.

So the US is asking for 3-4 apps' worth of notification data per request (person?), and get their way about two-thirds of the time. And I'd assume one token worth of data could contain hundreds, thousands, of notifications.

There's only one app I know about that only uses push notifications to alert apps of incoming messages (without injecting the notification content into the push notification), and that's Signal...

I believe so, based on another article I read

Serious question, Hotznplotzn: Are you against digital currencies in general because you don't want governments to track people's financial transactions, or are you just trying to remind people that Russia is still bad?

I guess I'll ask you the same question I ask Putinists: Do you actually have a problem with propagandists? You get to see Hotznplotzn's profile too. If you think there's a different conclusion, a rational person would draw from it, be my guest in elaborate.

It's also a very funny you would accuse me of being a Putin shill.

I think so.

Some browsers for Android have blocked the abusive JavaScript in trackers. DuckDuckGo, for instance, was already blocking domains and IP addresses associated with the trackers, preventing the browser from sending any identifiers to Meta. The browser also blocked most of the domains associated with Yandex Metrica. After the researchers notified DuckDuckGo of the incomplete blacklist, developers added the missing addresses.

So are Meta's ties to the US and the MAGA regime.

But for some reason, Hotznplotzn appears more interested in promoting an America First form of nationalism than privacy advocacy, because that interest in privacy evaporates when American entities do it.

Interesting you added "Russia" to the title, but couldn't be bothered to name the US as another surveillance state.

If I didn't know better, I'd say you didn't care about privacy at all, and were only stoking nationalistic fears.

What this article doesn't mention is that the URL

https://register-with-gp.ht1.uk/

sn't a typical redirect, it actually acts as a landing page that ends up requiring another click.

That extra click takes you to

https://www.nhs.uk/service-search/find-a-gp

... Which is what, a dozen characters longer (and has an extra "www." that can probably be discarded)? The QR codes should work just about as well. Better, if you skip the redirect

OP's post history demonstrates an interest in only one thing. As one example, look at the way they edited this article's title.

Original title: "...involving Meta and Yandex..."

This post: "...involving Meta and Russia's Yandex..."

I continue to wonder if OP is interested in privacy, or is simply upset at the Russianness of this particular thing.

I added a couple hopefully helpful links elsewhere in this thread, but this one is probably the most relevant

Firefox is definitely a better browser than Brave (which has a history that's riddled with controversy), but there are a couple forks of it that intentionally make it more private too.

But for practical purposes, installing Firefox and disabling Telemetry is more than acceptable for the average person!