I've had that a few times on my accounts (I scrape content so they get suspended relatively often) and I always just grab a photo from thispersondoesnotexist.com and crop out the watermark. It hasn't failed me yet.
I think a huge part of this "enshittification" thing is that companies have finally realized that normies for fucking real don't care what specialists say, like at all, in no situation they care. Between a cryptographer with an ugly photo and a cryptobro with a nice photo they'll listen to the latter.
10 years ago it was more of a compromise, now they realized that you can roll out something as "secure" as OSCAR over TLS to the server and say it's secure and the absolute majority will just believe it if the advertising is good enough, no matter what specialists squeal.
So now people compare Signal to Telegram as if these were comparable.
It really sucks. Such a descent into stupidity and centralism together with AI poisoning just can't avoid making our world more dystopian and genocidal.
I don't give my picture to social media but in a way the fact that you have to take pictures directly from your app is the proper way to digitalised identifing someone. Back to the time where people phisically register, people will showed up to prove which face they have an match it with an non reproductible identity card. But, now I could easily inpersonnate 5 or 10 of my relative and love-ones from the picture I have from them and image of their id-card or another official document they have give me access to, or they have access from my computer once.
Quite true. As a Google Fi subscriber since 2015, I still rely on them for that service, but I've weaned off everything else to the extent that I can. There was a time that I thought the value outweighed the spying, but its impossible for me to maintain that delusion now.
We're on the same boat with Fi. I only use it because it's the only service I know about that I can pause and not have to pay when I'm not in the US. I don't live in the US, but I but do have to travel there very frequently, so it's an acceptable trade-off for me. And it works perfectly fine on GrapheneOS even With GMS off.
I've been out of the US since late '22 and they still haven't cut my data or sent one email about it. I expected to lose it after 90 days. I get a google play services error once in a while about Fi needing it to have all permissions, but I don't have any problems leaving them off. My next install of lineage I'm going to try no GApps and see if it still works. I know the LOS team say you need it for Fi.
Yeah. I also use it when I travel to Canada, Ecuador, Colombia and México, and it just works. I'm telling you, it's been a life saver because the roaming fees from my country's providers are ridiculously high.
I've been expecting Google to kill it like they tend to do with everything people start to like, but it's been over 7 years already, and still going.
I have no idea what the impact would be with LOS, but with GrapheneOS, I don't even get error messages. Granted, I did use play services while setting up the Fi app, then un-installed it all and update from Aurora. Flawless.
GrapheneOS officially supports and encourages the use of Google Play Services and a Google account for "security" purposes. Their "unofficial" members also spread propaganda advocating for the same.
They are also an embargo partner with Google for security patches, and add features that may threaten the lives of privacy users, or end up in jail or death in certain circumstances.
There is defiance against Google services for sure. DivestOS is quite a lot better in that the motivations are fairly honest, and Tad is not catering to Pixels only. However, he has a different type of problem, in that he has done a bit of soul selling to the disgusting Daniel Micay. The situation is complicated, so let me simplify it. Micay's code is not truly open source, but rather only usable if one worships Micay, and if someone were to even lift a finger to criticise, he will label them with epithets, harass them and unleash his rabid GrapheneOS social media army upon them. Sounds wild? It happened to FlorisBoard and Bromite projects, both of which are no longer developed.
Micay in realtime, in DivestOS' XMPP chatroom, was accusing me of the typical "harassment ringleader campaign" BS, and ordered DivestOS/Mull developer (these are his aliases) SubZer0Carnage/Tad/SkewedZeppelin that if I was not banned immediately, DivestOS and him would face social media targeted campaign and DivestOS will have to forcibly pull off any borrowed GrapheneOS code. DivestOS developer dusted his hands off me.
For obvious reasons, I stopped using Mull and switched to Firefox mainline browser with uBlock Origin. I will never touch stuff that Micay or Tad has created or forked, unless other good developers have a strong oversight on them.
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