obviously. you probably misread me.

encrypting matrix chats just protects one step of the process, your data may be leaking in various other ways.

the matrix room may be public, but when you choose someone to talk to via dm, at that point encryption matters. Of course, you shouldnt really trust that random person from the matrix room, but it being an encrypted chat reduces the risk somewhat.

i do backups of my home folder with Vorta, tha uses borg in the backend. I never tried restic, but borg is the first incremental backup utility i tried that doesnt increase the backup size when i move or rename a file. I was using backintime before to backup 500gb on a 750gb drive and if I moved 300gb to a different folder, it would try to copy those 300gb again onto the backup drive and fail for lack of storage, while borg handles it beautifully.

as an offsite solution, i use syncthing to mirror my files to a pc at my fathers house that is turned on just once in a while to save power and disc longevity.

every google site has been doing this for years too. every comment we write in youtube and discard before posting, its being recorded. this isnt news at all.

its a strategy, theyre not even being deceitful here, just pricing to their interests. theres so much evil stuff they do, but this example isn’t properly evil.

the article mentions that the tool takes into consideration architecture, distance between buildings and so on. i think youd have to mess up the backgrounds somehow

i would guess that people that deactivate js are fine not using google for search

why dont they show ads in albania?

why having a paywall if that scenario enables people to become absolute subservient machines deprived of any subjectivity?

they already did

yes, the internet wasnt built on charity