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From what I heard, people hate systemd because Linus Torvald was approached by the NSA to create a backdoor on Linux, he said it wouldn't be possible to change the kernel because there were too many eyes on it, and right after that a mysterious hack of kernel.org introduced a mysterious code but it was spotted and removed... well, what was the other thing common to all Linux? The sysv-init, but it was too small, too tight, too specific for them to create a backdoor there, they needed something big, bloated, doing way more than it should do, like it was just supposed to start the system but it can also do unrelated stuff like handling DNS, and then a subsidiary of an American Big Tech company shows up bring systemd, that solved all the problems the NSA had to create a backdoor on Linux, and all distros jumped into the honeypot :)

OP just deflecting and ignoring... here's the deal about privacy:

If the company doesn't advertise itself for not saving logs or selling your data: Don't waste time with the ToS.
They are saving logs and selling your data.

If the company advertise itself for not saving logs or selling your data, but it's American: Don't waste time with the ToS.
The government can legally force them into cooperation while placing them under a gag order.

If the company advertise itself for not saving logs or selling your data and it's not American: Read the ToS if you want, but it's not important.
You will hardly find anything that is not open source recommended for privacy. Read independent code review of the software and third party audits of the company.

"they keep using it thinking it enhances their privacy."
Can you give an example of stuff people use because they think it will enhance their privacy but don’t?

about DuckDuckGo https://duckduckgo.com/privacy
"We don’t save your IP address or any unique identifiers alongside your searches or visits to our websites. We also never log IP addresses or any unique identifiers to disk."

Sure, you can't trust American companies for shit, same goes for Brave and its ecossystem, so if you can't trust the ToS content, what's the point of reading it, duh :P

If a company doesn't advertise itself for not saving logs, having no trackers, not using you to train AI, not selling your data, etc, etc, it's because they are doing all of that, so it's also pointless to read the ToS... if they say they don't save logs, etc, then sure, there may be a point reading to see if there are any caveats, but I trust more third party audits (like Proton and Mullvad regularly have) and the code being open source and reviewed independently.

Can you give an example of stuff people use because they think it will enhance their privacy but don't?
Because software and services people use because they think it enhances their privacy usually are:

Proton (mail, VPN, docs, storage)
Mullvad (browser, VPN, DNS, search engine)
Tuta, DuckDuckMail, SimpleLogin, addy.io, Mailvelope, Thunderbird
StartPage, DuckDuckGo, Duck.ai, SearXNG
LibreWolf, Tor, IronFox, Vanadium
uBlockOrigin, AdGuard DNS, ControlD, Technitium, Pi-Hole, simplewall, Portmaster
Debian, Fedora, Arch, GrapheneOS
Qubes, Whoonix, Tails
Fediverse instances that explicitly say no tracking/analytics, telemetry/data selling, ads, AI training

Reading the ToS of any of these revealed they in fact don't enhance privacy?

I want a "target pressure wave attack" necklace

I use my cellphone only to message relatives and play some MP3s. It's a Samsung J2 Core I bought in 2019 because it was the cheapest non-second-hand smartphone I could find at the time. Its last security patch was in 2021, and they dropped support. It's barely compatible with the current Google ecosystem, and I'm probably getting locked out of it anytime now because apps will refuse to work... even LineageOS, which supposedly increases the life of smartphones, doesn't support it... I'm sad I'm going to have to spend money on one of these sometime soon even though it's still working.

Oh yeah, the only problem would be if this simply addon could turn me into an exit node (which is a more complicated thing than just running guard or middle), but being a guard-guard, well, this addon sounds pretty cool :)

My main browser is LibreWolf and I have Mullvad for some other accs. I do however have old stuff that turned disposable now, and I decided to let these logged on Brave out of convenience (since to let accs logged on Mullvad or Tor you have to enable history and cookies and it defeats the purpose of those browsers :P)
I'm also using Brave to check some stuff because all the aforementioned browsers break some canvas script and I use those for image effects in my site and I'm trying to fix the script so it works on hardened browsers.

also, if someone ends up connecting to me and go straight to cp, it's going to be my fucking address there?? haha

Oh, sorry, if switching instance doesn't work, here's the original YouTube link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pp9MwZkHiMQ
ps: there is this cool addon that can change frontend and autopick instances for you so you don't have to get tracked when browsing Big Tech sites https://libredirect.github.io/

I'm new to Lemmy. I just saw the invidious video can't be embedded here, so just click the link :)