Join us 2025-08-22T21:00:00Z for This Week In Privacy #15, to catch up on the latest Privacy Guides updates and to discuss trending news in the privacy space.
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I’m guessing you’ll be touching on this but also address the following nightmare -
What options would we have if this happens? I’m guessing apps like Signal will stop providing their service to those countries instead of breaking their software at whims of a dystopian EU? If so, what can affected private citizens then use or do?
And how are they going to enforce the inevitable workarounds tech savvy users are going to come up with? Are Android ones only to be recommended so that you can atleast install the APKs of these apps nonetheless manually and directly?
Sadly I will be sleeping at that time, but as JG commented, I would be interested if you could advice some recommendations if the law pass (which sadly it is likely will do).
On my personal use case, I have been using Signal (well, Molly because GOS) and SimpleX for Instant Messaging and I did not do so much research but I guess the most viable option right now could be selfhosting a chat platform? Or do you think there are other alternatives?
On my personal use case I also use Matrix/ElementX and E2EE mail provider but I really don’t care much about those. I use matrix for group chats so… and mail only for official communications (banks, government…) and online stores.
And of course any other advice would be greatly appreciated. I am not technical skilled, but I don’t mind to learn and study any resource, tool, guide, document… you or anyone see useful (especially in instant messaging/communications).
You can still do something about it.
It’s not hard to be immune to this, and according to one article, many vendors have already fixed this flaw.
98% of my browsing that isn’t directly related to anything with a persistent login and that domain itself is either in a private window, a FF container, or an entire separate browser.
Any links opened from a persistent login are opened in a private window. This prevents session hijacking.
Keep the password manager locked so that it’s not auto-filling anything unless you’re giving it permission to do so.
Don’t save credit card info anywhere, ever. Don’t let your Password Manager manage 2FA. Seriously, why on earth would anyone keep 2FA and passwords in the same place?
Log out of persistent logins every week or two (also helps prevent session hijacking)
My tip : it could be better to have more dynamic transitions between stories/topics. Just put a slide with “Story n°1, story n°2,etc” with a little music/sound at every transition (like when you end a topic you click and it sends the transition) . Or the title of the next story/part of the video but this is more work.