This reminds me of how Signal nags you constantly about entering your PIN, Only to find out it's not a requirement, they're just trying to help you memorize it.
this post was submitted on 12 May 2025
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Ive had signal running on my phone for years, its the only way my partner and i text eachother, and i dont think ibe e ever had to enter my pin. Maybe once.
What is signal? To me when I hear someone refer to signals they are referring to a gas station chain called signals. Which also have payment machines for credit cards that will prompt you to enter your card's pin but you can just hit the enter button without putting in your pin in order to process the purchase as credit card payment and not as an atm card payment.
If you are referring to a different company, product or service that isnt the gas station signals, than I am absolutely delighted at this mix up and how much the two have crossed verbiage uses. 🤣🍻
it's a replacement for texting, voice, and video calls. It's encrypted and private.
All my Gen X homies knew what enshittification was before it had a fun name.
I live in Ruralasfuck, USA. Most of my peer mellenials think the word "firmware" is some made up Harry Potter nerd shit. Thats coming from my generation who grew up with technology. You start going up the generation ladder from there and it doesn't get any better. The older generations will maintain a similar void of understanding but its delivered with more homophobic or racist sentence enhancers than I normally get from my mellenial peers. Usually will sound something like, "What the fuck is firmware? More made up shit you learned from those Harry Potter f*gs you used to jerk off to?"
Maybe don't use spyware and simultaneously complain about being spied on. 🙄
Snapchat gives you options to not give permissions to access your decice's media, notifications, contacts, text and/or calls. It has no active background activity or network activity. It only stores content that I give it authorization for. That is not anywhere close to meeting the defined parameters to be considered spyware. It literally qualifies it as not being spyware.
Spyware will not request consent because its purpose is to access data without your knowing about it. When legitimate software includes spyware, they are only able to do so by burying the consent in the installation agreement. They dont give users options to opt out of it.
Or don't
Or don't what?
Use that