Yes, I’m a bit less worried about chat control “1.0” as it at least still allows one to choose services that don’t participate (I seem to recall reading somewhere that no encrypted services actually reported anything under 1.0 but have no source for it). Of course it is still not good.

Biggest problem is that they are also discussing chat control 2.0 that would force privacy focussed apps to basically shut down or comply.

Wouldn’t the private space functionality work for that?

Or create full separate user profile, although thay is much less convenient.

They also make great projectors.

On the TV side, they sold 51% to Chinese TCL, so I expect things will start going downhill fast from here, which is a shame.

DKK is pegged, SEK is not.

The number of partners is in the cookie banner from onetrust when opening the site (maybe location dependent?). I’m aware it doesn’t mean they necessarily are making 3rd party http requests (feels likely though?), but when a site has such a ridiculous amount of partners, it is a huge red flag.

But it’s not surprising, if they donate to charity, for each search request, they have to generate income somehow…

1.org:

We and our 1011 partners store and access personal data, like browsing data or unique identifiers, on your device.

Seems like they would many more 3rd party requests than those four.

DDG uses Bing though and doesn’t have its own index.

They really produce much in Europe? I thought most of their production is in Asia.

They also still AFAIK operates in Russia.

The work done by the hardware dept to build CPUs has been a great achievement though. While this started under Jobs, Apple now arguably makes the best CPUs in the market. Competing with AMD/Intel is no easy feat.

LOWA makes most of their shoes in Europe. I think mostly the trail runners are not. Excellent quality.

Where are people moving to from Vimeo?

Meanwhile I found rethink dns. It’s a DNS based blocking that also use the local VPN similar to tracker control, however you can add any wireguard VPN to use inside rethink dns. This allows one to use any VPN provider that supports wireguard.

The UI is not as good as tracker control for what you want, but it’s possible to show logs of blocked request for each app.

Another company (Dao) will deliver mail instead.

The controversial text about VPNs was already removed from the proposal following the critic that came out. Source: https://kum.dk/aktuelt/nyheder/kulturministeren-justerer-lovforslag-og-fjerner-afsnit-om-vpn

Many VPNs provide blocking of trackers but you won’t be able to see the kinda statistics tracker control gives you.

Alternatively you could self-host something like pi-hole which will give you overall statistics about what is being blocked on a device level, but you still wouldn’t get information on a per app basis

Interesting, that is directly illegal afaik in many EU countries, where the rule is you must keep as far right as possible at all times. I.e use only left lanes when overtaking.

Looks impressive, especially with the amount of providers supported.

I think it’s clear that there are problems with children’s use of social media today.

But a blanket ban is not the way to go. Especially since it will most likely just lead to age verification and all the issues that brings.

What’s the source for this programme scoring individuals ? Per the EU project description, the target is specifically communities at large rather than individuals.

In many places call recording (or indeed processing of personal information which is highly likely to be present in phone calls) requires consent to be legal. I highly doubt this kind of processing is legal in the EU without both parties consenting.