Yeah, I’ve thought the same. It’s like with ads on websites - ads are served from different domains and as blockers work by denying requests to those domains. If they really wanted they could serve the ads from the same domain as the rest of the website. I guess one day they might but so far it must not be worth it.

Yeah you can have a PIN with Island.

Assuming you’re asking about the password manager?

Most important for me is that with Bitwarden I can share passwords with someone else.

What are you using instead of Google Photos?

I’m the other way round, email was the first thing I degoogled. It’s Photos I don’t know how to replace.

This is useful insight but I think it’s important to remember that, as messed up as it sounds, different companies and their lawyers will interpret laws differently. It will be a risk vs reward calculation for each company. They won’t consider if it’s illegal or not, they’ll consider whether they’re likely to be prosecuted, what the fines would be, what the reputational damage would be, whether they have more lawyers than the government of a moderately sized country etc.

I probably agree with the interpretation you’ve given and would like the governments to go after companies that think otherwise but that sadly isn’t how it works.

Could you expand on that please? (I sound a bit snarky but don’t mean to!)

I don’t like going outside but I do like dogs. One of the advantages of having a dog is that it means I do sometimes have to venture outside.

I think (at least part of) the problem is that whenever the media explain anything fediverse they start by saying “this is really complicated” and then give a ridiculous analogy. The average person switches off as soon as they’re told its complicated and the supposed explanation provides nothing helpful.

I agree with you, if they figured out email they can figure this.