I download the videos I want to watch with yt-dlp. This applies to audio as well. I then add the videos to my Jellyfin server to watch them on the TV.

I have now read most of the article (I know reddit is violating your privacy, I gave you the link so the bot will give you options to go around with). EU is working on better privacy for us within EU.

Contrary to popular belief, Facebook and Instagram are not banned in China.

I hope EU will ban both Fecesbook and Instagram in the near future. I HATE Big Tech because they see you as the product + behaving so weird! It (the ban) has been on the table before, but got paused because (what I think is one of the reasons) of lack of alternatives (which is false, there’s plenty of alternatives, HumHub as one of them).

If the EU does not enforce GDPR, then it’s useless for protecting your privacy.

They are working on it.

It’s not my kink.

I found an article on reddit regarding privacy in EU. Will read it when I come back home again and then reply to your message.

It’s always heck a lot of fun :) /s

Well hello there again :)

The links I got from him was (in my eyes) not source for EU being worst than China privacy-wise. It was about China having stronger privacy laws these days (maybe stronger than mainly GDPR) and old news that EU are trying to fix.

It is illegal in EU to gather as much personal data as what China does. That’s all I’m saying.

I am aware of USA and EU have a thing together. I am also very keen of my privacy and have read GDPR for Sweden, both for my own sake and for how I should handle others data that uses my websites.

What have I missed? Please give me links to the sources. I want to learn more.

I don’t think it was some sort of own. I was just as honest as I could be :)

I wrote a toot as an reply to the video on Mastodon. Turned out that he’s Russian/Ukrainan (“Copyright © 2024 Dmitri Sotnikov” in the footer of his website) and think that EU is worst than China because (what it seems) Meta ignores GDPR. When I asked for a source he linked to this article. After my reply on that, he linked to 2 articles (this and this).

His toot:

in China the government has access to the data the same way every western government has access to the data.

The big difference is that in the west there’s very little regulation to whom the companies can sell the data too.

You’re just regurgitating propaganda you’ve been fed by your regime here uncritically. You should be deeply ashamed of yourself.

I replied:

I have read about how China treat their people and visitors. Very good that they do have a strong privacy law now, but that doesn’t make them the best on privacy.

People (both regular and professionals within the field) warns people to interact with services from China because of privacy concerns.

I am not ashamed of myself. In my eyes, everyone who love how China gather peoples identity and how they welcome tourists/emigrants (privacy-wise), should be ashamed.

Over and out.

He responded with “I see your state propaganda you guzzle is doing a good job keeping you scared” and then blocked me.

Such nice guy :)

XMPP. Oh, wait, company based.

• Signal if you want phone number based signups.
• SimpleX Chat if you want to experience full privacy.
• Threema if you want basically the same as SimpleX Chat, but want to give them money first.

But XMPP would be the best option. Snikket is recommended for easy setup.

I bought stuff from GOG instead because I don’t want to buy a license of the games, I want to own them :)

Can’t remember exactly how many games I bought, but min. 5 ^^

Self-hosted XMPP using OMEMO included? OMEMO are based on Signal, hence my question.

Signal depends on servers from both or either Amazon and Google. Signal also requires your phone number.

Hello, XMPP.

I use EndeavourOS Xfce because it’s Arch with pacman and not Flathub or Snap. Plus, I love the simplicity and the performance boost you get with Xfce (even if it’s a small boost with a modern gaming PC).

I second EndeavourOS. It’s so good!

They force you to give them your phone number. No phone number = not allowed to use Signal. Plus, Signal uses servers from Big Tech (just search for it on reddit).

XMPP (mainly Snikket) is the best lightweight option.

Because Signal does not fully respect your privacy.

HopToDesk. https://hoptodesk.com

It’s a fork of RustDesk.

I love it!