Why FLOW Matters in Your Digital Life.
The Problem:
Most of the tech you use every day is controlled by #corporations—closed, #proprietary, and designed to lock you in. Think #Facebook, #iPhone, or #Adobe software: you can’t see how they work, you can’t modify them, and you’re often the #product, not the #user.
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We are excited 🥳 to announce the #release of #FileSender version 3.0! 🚀
This highly anticipated release features a significantly enhanced #user #interface, which elevates the overall user experience. 🎯 Additionally, there have been great #updates to the statistics page, file forwarding support and optional initial support for OpenPGP for guests. 👍
Find more 👉 https://filesender.org/announcing-filesender-3-0-release-with-major-changes/
We are excited 🥳 to announce the #release of #FileSender version 3.0! 🚀
This highly anticipated release features a significantly enhanced #user #interface, which elevates the overall user experience. 🎯 Additionally, there have been great #updates to the statistics page, file forwarding support and optional initial support for OpenPGP for guests. 👍
Find more 👉 https://filesender.org/announcing-filesender-3-0-release-with-major-changes/
Sacrificing accessibility for not getting web scraped
https://tilschuenemann.de/projects/sacrificing-accessibility-for-not-getting-web-scraped
#HackerNews #sacrifice #accessibility #web #scraping #data #privacy #user #experience
Google will allow users to sideload Android apps without verification
https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/11/android-developer-verification-early.html
#HackerNews #Google #Sideloading #Android #Apps #Android #Development #App #Security #User #Verification
I use #fdroid but #google may be enforcing #developer registration in #android soon. This has the potential to end F-Droid altogether. Well this is definitely inconvenient. Hopefully some solutions and workarounds are available, up to and including new #mobile OSes.
#apple is just as nefarious as Google when it comes to #user #privacy.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/29/googles_dev_registration_plan_will/?td=readmore
I use #fdroid but #google may be enforcing #developer registration in #android soon. This has the potential to end F-Droid altogether. Well this is definitely inconvenient. Hopefully some solutions and workarounds are available, up to and including new #mobile OSes.
#apple is just as nefarious as Google when it comes to #user #privacy.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/29/googles_dev_registration_plan_will/?td=readmore
I had a crash that took down Firefox, so when I restarted it it was the newest version (an update I'd installed, but hadn't restarted after).
I just went looking through the settings pages, which is a habit I've unfortunately had to get into because #Firefox and #Mozilla keep adding new anti-user fuckery in their continuing quest to drive users away from the only product they make that anyone gives two shits about.
And lo and behold, this is the new fuckery I found. Enabled by default. And it reinforces the need to go check for this bullshit every version update.
Firefox, if you had asked me how to cut my already diminishing trust in you to do the right thing by your users to near zero, I wouldn't have even dreamed this batshittery up. It's so much worse than I would have suggested. I have all the crap turned off - silently adding new crap and silently defaulting it to on is 1995-era Microsoft-screwing-the-users.
You feel you need to add this shit? Fine. But show me a dialog asking me whether I want it on or not when that version first starts. Don't turn it on behind my back and HOPE I DON'T NOTICE.
#fuckery#TwoShits #batshittery #abuse #DarkPattern #user#BehindYourBack#Enabled#EnabledByDefault #permission#AskPermission #sponsored #ads #privacy#version #update #bullshit
