I think you and I might see privacy from different angles in this situation. From the prospect of end to end encrypted messages that are unreadable to anyone but the user, no, and I don't think you'll find anything for your afford mentioned reasons. But in terms of a place where privacy is afforded to the users as a whole (beyond IP addresses, but that's another story and I understand that) I believe that AOU and anyone else he may have helping don't tinker at all. In the few interactions where AOU has let me peek tiny workings of how this place runs, I can see not only very strong encryption from his end, but also a major desire to stay hands off wherever possible.
You guys can use Poal chat with an encrypted private room. Only people invited can read the messages, and even not the past ones if that setting in the sub prefs has been enabled.
Well yeah I'm doing the whole akshually and teknically.... lol. runs a tight ship. Doesn't try to spy w/ extensions, trackers, ads etc. He's as perfect an admin as anyone could ask. MOst companies just want to harvest and sell your data these days. I actually have one of those stupid corporate swag shirts they gave out that says 'data is the new bacon'. I hate how true it is. If the admins here were running that kind of shit here my adblocker and tracker blocking would always be lit up, they never are.
That's technically true.
Not a single file is hosted outside of Poal's servers, expect for external links. It's easy to check in the network tab of your browser in dev mode.
And these are even set not to show the referrer (so websites don't know where that link originated from).
I also did changes to make it hard for AI bots to scrap Poal's content.
^ like I said, aou's a pimp at this shit.
Yup. Just as a comparison, go over to fagvoat. Last time I was there I blocked 6 items. No clue what the fuck System thinks he's doing over there. Nor where he pulls the costs he claims to keep the site running.
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