@DrPen What a pain.

@petersuber I was encouraged by how much it got wrong.

@fizzlefry@mastodon.social @knoppix95 @mdione @signalapp It's just a fact. There's no secure messenger in the world as long as it's made by people. By strangers.

@afxxi What I wanted to say was that Ubuntu Touch brings back privacy to its users. But privacy doesn't mean that Ubuntu Touch protects you from being spied on. If someone is looking for such thing then we are not the solution. And we won't advertise on what Ubuntu Touch is not... The list is too long. If your claim is UBports is advertising privacy when it is not, then I think it's false. And neither I think we should specify that privacy excludes X,Y&Z because that's not the point. Ubuntu Touch cannot help one to escape a totalitarian regime to spy on their citizens. That is not the goal of UBports. The goal is to give back control over our data and a choice regarding how we manage them.

@3T_Ed I'm glad all that was needed was some clarification. Yes I guess removing the plugins is not preferable ; a hack is possible but you would have to apply it again after each update.

If you think there is an issue, and aren't a developer, then simply open an issue in the issue tracker, and let the developers deal with it. Constantly repeating and making nonsense analogies in some attempt to try to force others isn't helping anyone. There is no "Home" in this respect, and having NTP and a connectivity check hosted at an Ubuntu sub-domain are not threats to your privacy. If you think they are, then block the connections yourself on your own system and be done with it. Make merge proposals to make it more configurable. Do something other than just sitting here repeating the same tired analogy trying to force us into your point of view.

O, did you write the article? EDIT: Ah, I see now what you meant. You added them to the OP.

That thread is full of FUD (Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt) over an incident from 2015 when there was an integration (now removed, in a desktop environment that is no longer used) that would allow you to search amazon store from your desktop. Ubuntu is just as trustworthy as any other major linux distro.

@herr-b Thank you so much for this question! @UniSuperBox Thank you so much for removing ReCaptcha! I read here since more than 6 months but when I saw ReCaptcha I did abort the registration at the forum. ReCaptcha is really terrible and I also try to avoid Google services. I am still not happy about Akismet but willing to accept it which is the reason why I did now finish the registration. It is very exiting and awesome to see what happens at UBports to get the choice not to use Android or IOS and get back some privacy.