To give you a little insight, it’s totally normal over here in Germany, since decades: (Allgemeine) Schulpflicht (English: (General) Compulsory Schooling)
The idea is, that every child has a right to education. Forcing their parents to let them attend school.
In rare cases police picks up the pupils or parents go to jail.
Still, it’s subject to ongoing discussion.
In addition to donating directly, fellow video games enjoyer can support the EFF by just buying games at humble bundle store and choosing EFF as the supported charity.
Those banners are the perfect example of malicious compliance! The data collecting companies did their best to barely comply but in the most annoying way. Just to point out, that it is the GDPRs/EUs fault your internet browsing experience got so much worse!
I highly recommend at least using the content blocker uBlock Origin!
More info at privacyguides.org (alt domain).
User guide explaining the blocking modes.
With a factory reset the phones encryption keys will be destroyed and nothing should be retrievable from that device. Even if the data isn’t overwritten, without the encryption key no one could read it.
At least that’s my understanding of the modern safety- and encryption features of recent phone models/mobile OS’s.
The worst part: Apple’s iCloud is end-to-end encrypted and even Apple can’t see the users files, at least that is what they say.
If what the dude on Reddit states is true, then this is bad, really really bad! 😮
And the US of A the future far right theocracy.
Wouldn’t encrypting the drivers and shutting it all down by a single button press work just like flushing the loo?! 🤔
And it all will still be recoverable, but by you only.
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It currently supports the following languages/regions:
Dansk (Danmark)
Deutsch (Österreich/Schweiz/Deutschland)
English (Great Britain/Ireland/Malaysia/USA)
Español (España/México)
Suomalainen (Suomi)
Français (Canada/France)
Italiano (Italia)
Nederlands (Nederland)
Polski (Polska)
Svenska (Sverige)
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There is a TOR-hidden service too:
It is open source:
And has other useful features, for example:
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Alternatively I use some SearxNG-instances, preferably hosted in the EU: