For other systems I think distrobox and toolbox are kind the intended way to mess with them. For configuration as code ansible is a popular answer.
andruid
Flatpaks and containers really are the next step forward for reasons like this.
I think here might biased to think so, because many are people that have flex from other social media sites. Like I'm full time Lemmy now after years of Reddit because of the API change.
They are generally mutually beneficial. Counter surveillance benefits from supporting privacy prevents malicious actors from exploiting the members of a nation. So I lean heavily towards supporting privacy as a matter of supporting both. The exceptions are in the true extremes in which, even after serious deliberation in a democratically agreed apon system, the demand for exposure is too high to ignore.
I disabled shorts and went through my front page and said to not show me stupid addictive content and then also took two weeks off. I also used libredirect addon on Firefox to redirect all YouTube links to inviduos so that if a link somewhere took me there I didn't get sucked right back.
Buying and collecting non actionable data to your companies immediate goals is a large business expense that should actually compared to benefits it brings you. It also represents an increased liability on your part, as securing that data against malicious, including state actors, is now on you to handle.
The ideal should be to minimize data storage and collection and maximize the amount of processing done your customer's hardware, for both reduction of CAPX and to get your time from collection to action for the customer as low as possible.
I will have to check that out!
There is a difference between the of power the state and larger corporations can exert to get "consent" to waive our rights, hence the need for unwaivable (or near unwaivable) rights.
This idea of treating corporations the same as people is why when you accept EULAs it's treated the same as if you agreed to agreeing to let a person you know to have the same info.
"Israel's massive surveillance system failed. We need to massively invest in the same approach here."
Oh man PWA as a replace to traditional apps have been promised for a while. On one hand the promise of write once run anywhere on the other less ability to lock down your app from your users (good for us, but not popular in the mobile space at the moment)
That was the last couple releases tbh