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]
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.
US Bill Mandates On-Device Age Verification
Buried in the definitions is a mandate that reaches every laptop, console, smart TV, and car infotainment system in the country.
Tuta Announces Quantum-Resistant Encrypted Cloud Storage, Tuta Drive
Ten million users already trust Tuta with their email, and now the same quantum-resistant math covers everything they store.
MembersYou Don’t Own Your Kindle Books. Here’s What You Can Do About It.
The open source ebook ecosystem now has a genuine answer for every piece of Amazon’s walled garden, if you care enough to look into it.
Your Old Kindle Still Works Perfectly. Amazon Is Killing It Anyway
Every internet-connected device in your home carries an expiration date.
MembersHow Your Weather App Became a Surveillance Machine — And How to Escape It
The forecast is free, but you’ve been paying for it with every place you’ve ever visited.
Apple Removes Bitchat From China App Store at Cyberspace Administration Order
The app that needs no internet, no servers, and no user accounts turned out to be exactly the kind of thing Beijing can’t let exist.
GrapheneOS Defies Age Verification Surveillance Pressure
GrapheneOS is doing what Apple and Google won’t: treating market access as a worthwhile price for not building a government ID layer into your phone.