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Do note that the car is computer on wheels which can record with internal camera and microphones everything that happens within the car, where you drive it, how do you drive etc. Data that might become useful if he sets his sights on you or any cohort you happen to belong to.

To think greed is some innate human trait seems to not be greatly substantiated by evidence on early human behavior. To see what we call greed all around us in market economy is only proof how we're all drilled from early childhood onwards to exhibit this behavior of greed, in accumulating money to survive, to archieve social status and approval etc. Drastic changes the economic system, and the very behavior set we are all programmed into, would more than likely regulate the behavior of greed. Though obviously that is extremely unlikely to happen.

Just.. use different search engine? Startpage if you still want the Google's search results but with vastly superior privacy

That was partially true a couple years ago that there were some crashes related to it. It is absolutely not the case anymore.

Google controls Chromium to the extent they can impose changes like manifest v3 and while some forks like Brave will try to circumvent such changes, it will eventually become too costly or incompatible to maintain.

It is kind of the same daydream as the Windows 11 debloaters have that if they just keep doing that, everything will be okay. That is until Microsoft implements features they can no longer fully disable, like recall, or just exercise their control to revert any changes at will.

You can change the link handling in the app settings so it doesn't try to open it via the app. Or open the site in incognito window.

With a user base of 500k if every GOS user left a review that'd make a dent.

Redlib provides an even better experience than old.reddit.com, while also being truly private.

The best approach to combat this is to cause as much headache as possible: bombard them with 1-star reviews, contact news sites, post this on social media sites snd contact Paypal's support.

And the Daily mail was founded in the 1800s. Age of the publication doesn't in any way correlate with the factuality of the reporting.

More apps starting to ban GrapheneOS in the guise of "security" is becoming increasingly worrying. Legal action in the EU may be the only option to stop this trend.

Pirated copies seem like a blackbox of potential malware, even if virus scans fail to find any problems (and they often give 10-30% false positives on most keygens/cracks). Even if the code is hosted in github, there has been plenty of cases of malware/viruses being hosted there too.