GDPR explicitly exempts government entities. Still, way better than not having it IMO.

Regulating governmental intrusions into privacy would take a completely separate and probably much larger bill.

Tor.

And the correct term is anonymizing proxy. Having the term VPN overloaded to mean two completely distinct things is rather annoying and/or confusing.

Honestly it was mostly a Discord competitor if anything. One with FOSS clients for desktop and Android.

The private chat is baseline implementation just to tick a box rather than anything practically useful.

Re profiling, I don’t think instances will bother doing that (unless they start running ads). However, they also don’t prevent anyone from building that profile themselves from observable behavior. And creating such database might constitute original work by itself. Now, they don’t get as fine-grained interactions as you would with tracking-infested sites. But they will get the most valuable ones such as active participation.

I’m not convinced by Session’s decision to remove forward secrecy. I don’t care if it’s malice or incompetence, they shouldn’t be in business of encrypted messaging either way.

And their lack of transparency on their share of underlying network and the associated costs for new entrants doesn’t make them smell like a cryptoscam any less.

My personal advice is avoid. You’ll be far better off with simplex, or xmpp+omemo for something not paired with phone number.

EU is not doing it yet, however there is strong push from interested parties within and outside of the EC:

https://balkaninsight.com/2023/09/25/who-benefits-inside-the-eus-fight-over-scanning-for-child-sex-content

Including illegal use of targeted advertising / misinformation campaign:

https://eupolicy.social/@ilumium/111226868912928077

Look at https://simplex.im/ then. It’s work in progress but the design is good.

But I’m glad to have a better Signal client too.

Issue #3580: Make Show Read Posts More Relevant
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3580

I’m probably missing something, but wouldn’t it be far easier to redirect people to install page of extension for their respective browser? Such extension could then transform the button as needed to point to whichever social web instance.