it was good at launch, but they’ve added so much bloat

I know I can run pihope on my own, but I’d rather pay $20/year and just use next DNS. one less self hosted service to deal with if it randomly broke

block ads by NextDNS or another DNS based solution. even blocks in app ads :)

unless he stole Siri

“there are no movies in your area by that title”

“To be fair, I’ve always wanted to tell this to advertisers too”

on desktop I don’t think I ever notice an issue, but on mobile it’s really noticable

well I’ve gone back on one of those promises

aka fancy paperclip

They really did genuinely work with Apple to create a system that could track contact while also not making it really possible to track individuals.

I’m begging zoomers to learn how to torrent

I relapsed when I found out you can patch in your own key to still use third party apps 😬

what does Extended do over just Revanced?

that is chat not Chat (proper noun)

see it’s dumb

It tells you at the bottom what backend you’re using

I know it’s still dumb, but in that screenshot they are not using Chat anywhere as a proper noun. The option to get to this screen is no longer Chat settings it’s RCA settings. Conversations it says RCS message instead of Chat.

funny enough… it was a feature flag to move it to the bottom on android for a while before but they removed that too

I started using ente auth for OTP codes. It’s still FOSS and I really like how it shows the ‘next’ code in case the time is short.

I still have it but it just throws an error. such a bizarre feature.

they stopped calling it Chat in Google messages a while ago

I read the title 3 times before I realized it’s not about cereal