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ccx

@ccx@sopuli.xyz

Computer, tea and ttrpg nerd.

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ccx ,

For anonymous proxy (which is what you seem to mean instead of VPN) I just keep using Tor for almost everything.
Sure, some services do block it - more than your usual commercial offering. But TBF that mostly saves me time from tying to deal with them.

ccx ,

Slight difference is that Zuck has had control from the start, whereas other companies might have had "don't be evil" leadership that was… optimized away for financial reasons.

Not that it really matters nowadays. Just an observation.

ccx ,

It's been a year or two, but last time I tried it their app worked fine on x86 Android in qemu.
Not the most efficient way to run it, but at least it's isolated from the rest of the system.

ccx ,

Original WhatsApp was XMPP with phone number for your username. Pretty much what https://quicksy.im/ does now.

WhatsApp today is completely different beast.

ccx ,

Honestly it was mostly a Discord competitor if anything.
One with FOSS clients for desktop and Android.

The private chat is baseline implementation just to tick a box rather than anything practically useful.

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