Nope. I really don't see it that way. At least as a european.
Without a digital currency, the payment system we are left with is the mastercard/visa american duopoly, plus a plethora of startups that try to lock you in them, as you can only pay to and from other users of the same technology, often semi-locked to a specific country (satispay, vipps, ideal, giropay, etc)
Of course, you can live in the 1900s and pay cash, but let's be realistic.
Against the "tHey WiLl bE aBlE tO dO aNyThInG wItH uR mOneY" argument: they can already. Currencies are already backed by the fucking ecb or whatever applies in your case. The banks already have a list of all your transactions so I don't see how that would become a new concern either.
Moreover, speaking euro-wise again, there is no plan to eliminate cash with the introduction of a digital currency. And i refuse to judge a policy based on an alleged "intention", what matters is the written facts.
It has to be said that parallel to this we (users of sepa banks) now have unlimited, instantaneous, fee-less bank transfers, i belive thanks to eu regulations. It might be okay for person-to-person transfers but as of now very few businesses accept transfers and it is usually only for large purchases, the rest you are mostly expected to pay with card (visa/mc).
Perhaps you didn't read the part where it says it is opt-in...? Or maybe made up the part where it says that the classic local backup mechanism will be removed?
Somewhat untrue by my experience. If you use a custom Rom purposely built without google's garbage then yes, sure. But on normal devices, even if you don't log into a google account, android is still going to use google services for at least notifications and location. Google Play Services will still be running in the background all the time sending constant network requests.
A lot of android apps rely on GCM (google's notification servers), I assume Whatsapp is one. Signal does too, but I think it can use its own websockets when gcm is not available, same for telegram. Whatsapp probably not.
Some ROMs with no google services restore the gcm funciinality via microg. Graphene os, as far as i know, does not have microg.
They don't make them money, actually quite the opposite. They need them to be the tool throught which they can avoid actual changes that would reduce their money, and thus, in a political system in which you can buy cough I mean "lobby" cough politicians, their power.
This. It's a sensor, detecting only a specific air type. Not a camera, not a microphone. It doesn't have to do with privacy, this is not "scan and collect data about all to punish one" and cannot be turned into one.
I'll agree it's a fuc**ing dumb idea. Like utter useless garbage. Classic capitalistic "fix behavioral trash-consumption issue with overpriced fancy tech products that sound amazing in theory and are garbage in practice, without fighting the problem at the root". Screenshot comment said tax moeny but I'm willing to bet this is some kind of private school.
Also I disabled send a do not track signal as it is used for fingerprinting
Doesn't this only make sense if it is off by default on that browser? I assume if it is on by default, most people will just keep it on, thus making users of that browser that turn it off stand out more. No?
I was talking about there being no option to whitelist some websites to keep their cookies, and as you can see it is not present there, while the desktop versione has it
Sadly that is not an option for firefox on android yet (while it is on desktop), the only choises you are left with are:
Use ff focus that completely resets the browser deleting every cookie in the process
Use normal ff and:
Just accept that you have to deal with cookies and care to carefully select Reject on every banner
Turn on delete data on "exit button press" (which sadly deletes everything again, with no possibility to whitelist some websites).
That said, i believe Firefox should have (even on android) their "total cookie protection" thing which puts them in separate containers for each domain, so you are somewhat protected by cookie cross-tracking, but i would still prefer to delete most of them at close.
Who said that