As much as most people do not like how services like #Spotify and #YouTube Music abuse both listeners and artist, they use them because they are easy and friction-free. For alternatives to gain anything but a tiny following, the software behind them also must be easy. That requires a chunk of work, but it is achievable by a small team. There are already options: #subsonic #funkwhale #ampache and more
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/12/spotify-boycott-artists
#Boycott #AI #DeathToSpotify #music #streaming #FOSS #FreeSoftware
@eighthave
That's pretty much what (rate limiting) pseudonyms can do as well, with perfect unlinkability if we get ZKP presentations into the implementation: https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05419
"As the sole gateway for app distribution on iOS devices, Apple’s App Store is a key pillar of its market power" sounds eerie familiar to #FDroid.
Can somebody discover why and tell us? 🤷
Here's the link to the full text: https://www.amnesty.org/latest/news/2025/08/why-are-big-tech-companies-a-threat-to-human-rights/
Thanks for any clues!
You can defeat #googles AI Age Verification by using https://thispersondoesnotexist.com
Just tested it myself
#google #ai #aiverification #ageverification #hack #it #itnews
Ever more websites are using #Cloudflare to block #AI scrapers. Cloudflare is still a man-in-the-middle #MITM attack on the web, but I do think people should have the ability to block the AI crap. So I now have some sympathies for using Cloudflare. What if we had real gov #eID that could be used for captchas? This requires privacy-respecting services that only see the data they need, e.g. "are you a human with an eID? yes/no". There are concerns with eIDs but in implementations not the core idea
Yay for the #EU putting a #deposit on plastic bottles so that good solutions like reusable #glass are less artificially disadvantaged. Of course, #plastic #recycling is total bullshit, that's not the reason why this deposit scheme makes sense.
Now there is now a book about how large corporations used plastic to drive a disposable culture. Nice to see that the author also calls out corporations by name: #CocaCola #Pepsico #Nestle
https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/10/10/1746232/how-plastic-goods-took-over-the-world-creating-a-throwaway-culture
F-Droid contributors have already translated the English post into Bahasa Indonesian, Português do Brasil, Українська and 繁體中文. If you wanted to distribute the link and language was a barrier, maybe now you can do it in your native one. Feel free to help with translations if your locale does not have one yet: https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/f-droid/
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O Google nunca se quer vendeu um dos seus produtos bons (ex: Google Pixels, ou Chromecasts) no Brasil, mas está pronto para nos utilizar como cobaia para saber como uma sociedade como a nossa aceitará o bloqueio de instalação de software livre.
Envie uma mensagem pros seus deputados.
https://f-droid.org/pt_BR/2025/09/29/google-developer-registration-decree.html
The #European #standards being developed to allow compliance with the Cyber Resilience Act have unusually high participation from #OpenSource community members. As a result many of the draft standards are being developed in markdown and are available for public review in ETSI's Gitlab instance. You will find links next to each standard on this page:
https://www.stan4cra.eu/etsi-tc-cyber
Positive contributions are actively invited. I'm vice-chair of the committee hosting the work and I approve this message 🙂
Formal court orders? Subpoenas? Vague emails from law enforcement? Pings from regulatory bodies you never knew even existed? Oh, they all spell one thing: government requests!
Yes, #FDroid legal series continues, episode four.
What to do or not do when authorities come knocking: https://f-droid.org/2025/10/07/when-authorities-come-knocking-how-to-handle-requests-for-information.html
@eighthave Yes, it was formed by Chris Simmonds and others following a talk last year at LPC. We wrote about the talk here: https://lwn.net/Articles/992992/
We did it: 🇩🇪Germany will OPPOSE Chat Control! 🥳
Thanks everyone for writing to the ministers. 🫶
#ChatControl will not get a majority in the EU Council - at least for now.
Anyone know anything about this new "AOSP Devs" group? It seems like it is trying to be like a community for free software devs to work on AOSP (e.g. outside of #Google
I know some of us are really angered by #Meta's decision to stop running political, electoral and social issue ads in the EU.
I understand this will force many civil society orgs to painfully disentangle their own #campaigning from #Meta platforms.
But in my books it's a win-win: CSOs win because they finally break free from an abusive relationship, and society wins because less of our political debates and election campaigns are run on toxic #BigTech platforms.
A key problem in the debate around #Israel/#Palestine is that it is framed as two sides of one coin: either you support Israel otherwise you support Palestine. I support none of those in power there, #Netanyahu, #Hamas, Palestinian Authority, the Israeli regime, etc. are all corrupt, brutal and lead to suffering for the vast majority of the people they claim to represent. Only those in power benefit currently. I support good governance for all the people who live there.