Rick Findlay
Rick is a Reclaim contributor who's interested in the way censorship and top-down control of social platforms is encouraging a new future of decentralized tech. [email protected]
The Malware Excuse Behind Amazon’s Locked-Down Fire Sticks
The company that floods your home screen with tracking ads now blocks the apps built to hide them, all in the name of your safety.
Apple’s New Subdomain Kills “Hide My Email” Cover
Apple’s privacy feature worked precisely because no one could tell you were using it.
Google Removes the Final Workaround for Full Ad Blocking in Chrome
The world’s largest advertising company also writes the rules governing what ad blockers can do inside its browser.
UK Even Wants Image Scanners on Millions of Unsupported Devices
It is a surveillance mandate written by people who do not know anything about technology.
MembersWhat to Like and What to Question About Europe’s New Open Source Office Push
The same governments selling you a sovereign office suite are the ones legislating their way past the encryption it would run on.
MembersStop Renting Access to Your Own Movie Collection
Running it yourself means a price you set, a door only you hold the key to, and infrastructure that answers to no one but you.
DuckDuckGo Installs Surge 30.5% After Google AI Search Overhaul
The numbers are small but for the first time the friction of switching looks cheaper to users than the cost of staying.
Canada’s Military Punished Whistleblowers Who Flagged Illegal COVID Speech Monitoring
Six years later, the legal vacuum that made domestic surveillance possible hasn’t moved an inch.
MembersThe Web Is Splitting Into Approved and Unapproved Humans
Google asked permission to gate the open web in 2023, got rejected, and just shipped the same thing as a product update nobody voted on.
Google Broke reCAPTCHA for De-Googled Android Users
The company that decides whether you’re a bot now also requires you run its software to prove otherwise.
MembersBrave Now Has a Stripped Down Option — Here’s Who Should Care
It’s a surprisingly coherent product, but whether you actually need it depends entirely on which kind of privacy user you are.
MembersThe Opt-Out Button Is Decorative: A Guide to Hardening Your Browser
The opt-out button you’ve been clicking is decorative, so here is the browser build that stops asking nicely.