@gabefollower Valve gave indie devs a platform, which generally impacted prices on games positively for the avg joe. The CS:S / HL2:DM / DoD:S Box was unbeatable back in the days.
They support the Linux & OSS-Community more than anyone, while other platforms focus on exclusives and marketing.
@stacy_muur For ideologically motivated developers, @ergo_platform ergo:native is unbeatable. No VCs, team allocations , p2p money and unstoppable money ethos etc .
@EUAITaxonomy No worries. I heard in America it's already live and they welcome fresh data with open arms. Just make sure you don't get sick in the process
Why centralized exchanges promoted this via listings instead of Proof-of-Work @ergo_platform which security is proven with time by many researchers and hackers ? @Bybit_Official@bitget@krakenfx and others, you have to explain this
@NXT4EU Why not use/help improve available, independent and sovereign solutions and reallocate that money to healthcare and education, instead of shortening the budget all over Europe for the actual essentials?
@NXT4EU This sounds like half of the story is missing. That day we went from full fin surveillance 180° to private offline currency exchanges? Brand: Selfmade? Cost?
Also in parallel we'll forbid privacy centered, battle tested, open-source solutions?
@TimSweeneyEpic "I have a point, see this article and that article and..."
Sure, dude. Or you just accept that me and most of the people I know are on this platform 20 years plus, in which it always provided a service I could not complain of.
You attacking that service is not changing anything
@enteio@ProtonPrivacy This was a no-go.
In times where it is 'get together' you chose to grief in a space that is all about values.
You could have asked a "valued ally". They could have told you what you seem to have missed, but obviously that was not the goal of your posting.
At a time of constant cyberattacks, EU institutions should defend VPNs as essential tools for online safety, free expression, and secure communication — not echo authoritarian talking points against encryption.
Digital privacy is human rights infrastructure. Strip it away, and the rest follows.
@EP_EPRS@EP_Justice
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🔐 Proton CEO Andy Yen warns that the global push for age verification is the quiet death of online anonymity, because every passport scan, selfie, and biometric uploaded for "verification" inevitably ends up leaked, hacked, or monetized.
He argues Big Tech and governments cannot be trusted to act as gatekeepers, and the only real protection for ID data is to never collect it in the first place.
🚨🇪🇺 The European Commission is about to steal your search history in one of the largest forced data grabs in the history of the open internet, and almost nobody is talking about it.
The scope is staggering:
🔴 Every query you type
🔴 Every voice and photo search
🔴 Every autocomplete you accept
🔴 Your language, your device
🔴 Your country pinned to a ~3km² grid
🔴 Every result you saw, every link you hovered
🔴 Every click and scroll
🔴 The full chronological order of your search sessions
Meaning the European Union now knows your:
🔴 Health symptoms
🔴 Pregnancy
🔴 Sexual orientation
🔴 Political views
🔴 Religious beliefs
🔴 Financial distress
🔴 Legal trouble
🔴 Addictions
🔴 Affairs
Under the proposed measures for DMA Article 6(11), Google would be ordered to ship the daily search behaviour of hundreds of millions of Europeans to multiple third parties through a daily API feed. Any approved "online search engine," AI chatbots included, would get five years of access.
The things people only ever type when they think no one is watching. All of it now scheduled to flow daily into an open-ended list of third parties scattered across the European Union.
Brussels promises "anonymisation." The reality is a thin technical veneer that has been broken in academic literature again and again for over a decade. Search behaviour is a fingerprint. Stripping a name does not change that.
Mass data leaks become inevitable. Every new beneficiary is a new attack surface, and every annual audit is a year of silent exposure between checks. The 2025 Discord vendor breach already showed how fast 70,000 government IDs can leak through a single weak link. Now imagine that link holding Europe's search history.
Surveillance without consent becomes the default. Hundreds of millions of EU citizens never agreed to have their queries packaged and shipped to companies they have never heard of. The legal fiction of "anonymisation" cannot manufacture consent that was never given.
Behavioural search data is a goldmine for phishing, blackmail, social engineering, and corporate espionage.
Foreign intelligence services get a back door without effort. They do not need to breach Google. They only need to compromise the weakest name on the beneficiary list. One insolvent startup. One compromised contractor. One approved entity quietly acquired by a hostile state.
In the name of "competition," the EU is about to manufacture a permanent, distributed, daily-refreshed copy of Europe's collective search history. A surveillance dataset Brussels itself would never approve if any other government tried to build it.
The public consultation closes Friday, May 1, 2026 at 23:59 CEST. The final binding decision lands July 27, 2026.
After that, the door does not close again.
Tag your MEPs! File a response! Make noise!