Thanks to you, the project will live on. Session now has a clear path forward. youtube.com/watch?v=rpMsr6_M…

Signal macOS Desktop App Doesn't Actually Delete Messages When it Should #News privacyguides.org/news/2026/…

Chrome is installing a 4 GB local AI model on some of your PCs without asking for permission and will just download it again if you delete it pcgamer.com/software/browser…

Firefox ships with Google as the default search engine. DOJ filings in the Google search case say Google's 2024 revenue-share payment to Mozilla was approximately $484.5 million, representing about 85% of Mozilla's global revenue. You cannot market yourself as the privacy alternative while your default is the largest surveillance advertising company on the internet and your survival depends on its money. Firefox's own Privacy Notice is more revealing than its marketing. The landing page says Firefox is built with privacy as the default, that Mozilla does not know much about you, and that "not even Mozilla should know which websites you visit or what you do there." Then the notice describes the exceptions. Firefox shows Search Suggestions by default. As you type, your real-time search query and technical data are sent to your search provider. Firefox Suggest can also fetch suggestions from Mozilla as you type. The notice says your real-time search query, technical data, interaction data, and IP-derived location data pass through that system by default before being processed for suggestions and measurement. Sponsored suggestions are part of this. Mozilla partners can receive de-identified search and interaction data to serve relevant suggestions and measure engagement. New Tab is also an ad surface. Firefox shows New Tab content "along with advertising to support its development." Mozilla collects views, clicks, position, size, and other interaction data on New Tab content and ads. It can use this to personalize future content, including sponsored content, and share aggregated or de-identified data with advertising partners. In some regions, Mozilla says it builds models and groups users based on common attributes to personalize future content, including sponsored content. Mozilla also says it works with advertising providers using programmatic technologies and may share device type, IP-derived location, and category of content viewed to help decide which ads to display.

Your donations have helped, and the Session Technology Foundation (STF) has received enough funding to support critical operations for 90 days. This means that Session will remain available on the app stores and essential services (such as the file server and push notification server) will stay online until July 8. For now, further development has been paused, so new features will not be released and emerging or existing bugs may not be immediately fixed. Most likely, there will be no new releases during this period. Volunteers will continue to keep Session alive for as long as is feasible. However, without proper funding to put towards development, over time Session will fall behind alternatives on usability and (eventually) security. We are extremely grateful to all the members of the community who have helped Session over the years by running nodes, onboarding their friends, and contributing to the foundation. Thank you to all who have worked with us to defend privacy for the last 8 years. Currently, it is estimated that USD$1 million is needed to complete the launch and support Protocol v2 (PFS, post-quantum, secure device management) and Pro (ecosystem sustainability). Beyond this, it is hoped the project could stand on its own. However, without this funding, the final day for Session is July 8. Although we must give this notice now, we will continue doing everything we can to secure more time for Session. If you or someone you know might be able to help, please connect. getsession.org/donate

LLMs are too important to be left to Big Tech. So we built Ensu. It runs on your device, and doesn’t share your data because it can’t! ente.com/ensu --- This is an experimental project by Ente Labs: ente.com/blog/ensu --- Come over to ente.com/discord to build Ensu with us.

Apple just banned several VPN apps from the Russian App Store — targeting those that helped users bypass Russia’s DPI-based censorship. That’s not cool, Apple. techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privac…

Without additional funding, Session's doors will close next month. Please read this appeal from Session co-founder Chris McCabe. getsession.org/donation

The new automatic login with SSO feature brings single sign-on (SSO) convenience of one-click automated logins to all applications, even those without native SSO support. See it in action in this video! #cybersecurity

Here we go again. The moment AI threatens someone’s identity, their degree, or the illusion of superiority they built their whole life on... suddenly it must be banned ‘for safety.’ Lawyers spent decades telling us: ‘If you don’t know the law, that’s YOUR problem.’ But now a machine knows the law better, never tired, never biased, never drunk, never billing by the hour and suddenly it’s ‘dangerous.’ No. What’s dangerous is how many careers depended on: - Misremembered details - Bad advice - Human error - Ego and gatekeeping. AI didn’t threaten jobs. It threatened the myth that humans in these fields were flawless. This bill isn’t about safety. It’s about ego, pride, status, and fear of being exposed by a system that doesn’t forget, doesn’t bias, and doesn’t bullshit. People want to ban AI because they don’t want to face a brutal truth: The machine wasn’t built to replace work. It was built to expose who was never as good as they claimed.

🤖 Android's always been about freedom. Now Google's pulling a power move The whole point of Android was that it wasn't like iOS — no walled garden, no gatekeeping. Build what you want, install what you want, from wherever you want. But that era's about to end. Google's rolling out a new developer verification policy that basically makes them the sole boss of the entire Android ecosystem. Soon, every single developer (even the ones distributing apps through their own site or third-party stores like F-Droid) has to jump through Google's hoops. We're talking $25, a government ID, and begging for "permission" just to exist on the platform. This hits close to home for us. You know why the full AdGuard for Android isn't on the Play Store? Because Google bans system-wide ad blockers there. We've always relied on Android's openness to get our software to you directly. Now Google's reaching way beyond its own store and trying to control the whole thing. We signed an open letter with F-Droid, EFF, the Free Software Foundation, and Vivaldi telling Google to reconsider. Security matters. That's what Play Protect is for. Forcing indie devs to dox themselves and pay up just to distribute privacy-focused software? That doesn't protect users. It kills competition and hands Google the keys to everything. Android's strength was always freedom. Let's not lose it. Full breakdown and the open letter on our blog: adguard.com/en/blog/google-a…

"We wrote a letter and they ignored us"

Boycott Google. Stop asking them to change rules. Shift dependancy