If it's a raidz, you can.

Pretty sure it's not xenophobic to look at "Headquarters Moscow, Russia" and wonder if there's any possibility that Putin could enforce something upon the company.

It's not like Russia doesn't do it to us.

The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) separately accused the US National Security Agency and company Apple of being behind the attack

It's fair to hurt Russia's GDP by choosing not to use Kaspersky [in light of people's opposition to the war with Ukraine]. That doesn't mean "xenophobic".

Edit: Added bracketed clarification

You throw so much stuff into this

I mean... I quoted your post and responded to each point I wanted to respond to. You don't have to respond to literally everything I say.

You have yet to be precise. Because you don’t have a solution!

Because gasp I'm not a politician. It's not my job to make laws.

See Doesn't need to be a book's worth of response. The rest isn't worth addressing with you because you seem to consistently miss my point.

There’s a good reason why swastika and Nazi salut are illegal.

No there isn't. You made the symbol illegal in Germany. What did that do? Did it kill of all the Nazis? It's funny because I keep hearing about this push for neo-nazis out there. Making it illegal does nothing against the hateful groups and does everything to hurt the bystanding groups that are also affected. In this case a good chunk of history of many cultures.

So far I’ve only read “we can’t forbid it”

You can do whatever you want. It's your country so to speak. Since I don't live there right now I can't vote (I did live in Germany for some time). But don't claim to be so supportive of minority groups when you're suppressing them under the name of "stopping nazi's"... even though you're not even stopping the neo-nazi groups either.

Certainly not letting them spread their propaganda is goal here.

See above points about the neo-nazi groups...

knows why not to use it any longer. It’s that simple.

At the expense of culture/religious beliefs. That's the problem. You're forcing society to remove these things at the expense of other minorities.

Make an offer then how to solve it. I’m all ear.

Write better laws that actually targets the act of spreading Nazi propaganda rather than some random symbol that have myriads of meanings outside of "nazi".

Babymetal is metal... Don't be one of those gatekeeper pricks that makes claims that certain bands aren't metal. Hell they've toured with Judas Priest. Are you also going to say Rob Halford isn't metal?

Yes, but at the very least they have to do queries to build that profile out across dozens or hundreds of recipients... And they only get what I explicitly sent to them/their users.

Google collects 100% of the emails you're getting on gmail and it's already sent directly to you... so they see it completely... including emails being sent to other sources since it originates from their server (so collecting information that would be going to an MS Exchange server as well...).

Self hosting this means that you're collecting your own shit... And companies can only get the outgoing side to their users. And never the full picture of your systems/emails.

This matters a lot more than you think. Lots of systems for automation sends through systems like Mailchimp, PHPmailer, etc... So those emails from your doctor likely never originated from MS or Google to begin with. When it hits your inbox on Gmail or Outlook... Well now it's on their system. Now they can analyze it.

Mailcow.

Personally. No. The hardest part is getting a clean IP and to setup PTR records for a static IP. The rest has been easy for me personally... but I do this shit for a living so I might be biased.

The hidden plugins I'm talking about are BUILT INTO CHROMIUM.

https://community.brave.com/t/hidden-extensions-in-chromium-source/557645

Chromium based browsers (brave as an example linked above) ALSO had them present. It was only due to the new of this being a thing recently that brave (and probably others) made it disable-able (https://github.com/brave/brave-core/pull/24583 5 days ago).

Screaming "it's open source" means nothing if nobody ever reviewed the code, and disabled the google spyware shit that they put into chromium to begin with. Remember the Chromium is still a google product.

I'd rather just Mozilla... You know... since they didn't try to fuck me out the gate. I can accept "On by default, but we ask you during setup and you can access the setting at anytime" vs "Fuck you, you turned off all the telemetry but can't reach the hidden add-ons we install without recompiling your own browser". The mentality matters. I can trust the former to not screw me a bit more vs the latter rapist mentality.

What do you use for that?

Because emails can have a boatload of sensitive information (especially when collected en masse, think years and years of emails)... In the day of AI bullshit. Minimizing all that data being directly attached to an account associated with you and owned by google or some other corp seems like a sane desire. If you primary a gmail account... and they start (they probably already are) training on that dataset. Shit is going to get real testy.

Simply not true.

No, it is true.

Making connections to mozilla != collecting boatload of telemetry. Every function in that page is to download FULL lists of information. Not specific tracking items. You don't gain a whole lot of telemetry/metadata on someone who downloads a new blocklist. Rather that say someone who checks a specific domain on a blocklist. further, the vast majority of things (virtually all of it) is configurable in toggles. And many options in here don't even send mozilla anything at all (prefetching for example.)

Automatic connections != sending mozilla all your tracking information.

Chrome/Chromium isn’t evil either.

Hiding plugins that give google your hardware information when you visit any google domain without consent is pretty fucking evil.

Based on the description, the gesture described has nothing to do with metal heads…

Well... one usage of it for sure does. BabyMetal has co-opted it into their shtick some decade ago. They retroactively added it to the band as they do put some of the Japanese lore into their stuff... With the kitsune (fox god) being the reference for the hand gesture itself. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sign_of_the_horns Just scroll down and you'll see an image referencing "Yuimetal", who's from the original Babymetal lineup (original image https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Babymetal_at_2015_GQ_Men_of_the_Year_ceremony.jpg).

Forget that it has other meaning elsewhere, this is just the one that I recognize immediately.

Other's that I've seen brought up..

It does however resemble the "too sweet" sign used in wrestling by backstage friends in WWF known collectively as "the kliq", later used by some of those friends in WCW's NWO and in Japan's NJPW by a group called Bullet Club.

It's the "silent fox" in germany. Used by the teacher in the Kindergarten when the kids are to loud.

Taking the hand gesture away has everything to do with EVERY culture that uses it.

It's mapped properly in every other database outside of google (including Waze which is now owned by Google). But I can't make websites not use Google's database for address validation. I don't use google maps personally.