Completely in that they do not delete it. Regarding the legal aspect I am not a lawyer.

Messages can contain personally identifiable information and they very often do. You cannot anonymize messages by just deleting the user name and email address of the sender. With Reddit the difference is that it is public in the first place while with direct messages you have anexpectations of privacy. But of course how things turn out in court is another matter.

YouTube once did a genius and really nice move: Paying the video authors. They realized that treating the people who create the works – that are the entire reason why people use the platform – well and creating an incentive for that work is smart and a good way to grow the platform.

But that time is long gone. YouTube is the monopoly in the market now. They ruin everything that was good about YouTube. They brought the adpocolypse and only pay video authors for videos the content of which they deem friendly to their advertisements business and easy to sell to advertisers based on a completely arbitrary broken automatic system that enforces self censorship on the video authors. All other videos that are still vital to the platform do not get any of the money they make of the viewers the demonetized videos keep on the platform.
They started putting ads on videos that the author did not choose to monetize completely breaking with their system of sharing their revenue with the people who create the basis for that.
While they impose strict arbitrary self censorship on the video authors who want a cut of the revenue their videos allowed to generate they allow a flood of scams and other illegitimate and inappropriate content for advertisers.
They removed the dislike button making the platform much worse for the users just to appeal to advertisers even more.

TikTok is as all Chinese companies controlled by the CCP. There is extremely plenty of evidence of TikTok’s very sophisticated censorship: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_by_TikTok

TikTok is a cancer that always does this. It is a tool for censorship, propaganda and population control. You should never use TikTok. It is extremely unethical to do so.

You should get no information from TikTok. That is all there is to say about it. This is even much more true for medical information.

That is not the topic at discussion.

If you get your medical information from TikTok you really have far bigger problems.

Open source does not make clear that the software is free as in freedom, just that the source code is available. If anything we would need to call it libre software to make it unambiguous.

Breaking Google News is a good thing. Not that one good result would legitimize the action, but all these personalized cherry picked click and rage bait “news” streams are atomic waste for our society.

GrapheneOS is the go to recommendation.

No, it’s malware itself.

Note that the admins of your instance can see absolutely everything in your account. Social media is not private and Lemmy is no exception to this.

When renting you still have full usage rights. When renting a computer like an iPhone you still have the right to run whatever software you choose. That is not the case. This is not renting. This is nothing. You just give them money in hope of their favor. But you do not have the right to anything.

What is interesting is that they paint this as a security reason:

However, Microsoft has decided to remove this option from the Edge settings menu, citing security and privacy reasons. According to a Microsoft engineer, the reset sync option was “a potential attack vector for malicious actors to wipe out user data without their consent or knowledge”.

This is a very common reappearing thing in big tech. They deny you control over your data and device for alleged security reasons. Apple uses the same pretens for locking down iOS and not allowing the user to install apps of their choice but only what Apple approves.
They are right in a way. They are doing this for security reasons. But not for your security but for theirs, from you. You do not own “your” data and you do not own “your” device. We are heading towards a society where you do not own anything. No matter how much you pay for it.

That’s all nice but their lowest paid plan also just tripled in price (while getting more features).

The entire point of E2EE encryption is that you do not have to trust the server.

Tor Browser on Android. It happens on multiple circuits with different exits. Not an image by me, but it looks like this: https://global.discourse-cdn.com/cloudflare/original/3X/c/3/c38eaed81c96ac19e4fd5a69d4257445b391927e.png

Really? That is a stupid limitation.

Presumably end-to-end encrypted. Do not trust any of them. There is no good cloud-based password manager.

Bitwarden is open source and audited: https://bitwarden.com/help/is-bitwarden-audited/