I’m genuinely surprised it still exists! I remember when you were forced to use it to get the Amazon app, or the Kindle app, or whatever. I thought it was gone years ago.

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That’s what I meant, my bad.

Galaxy is a Motorola Samsung brand. I have a Pixel 7 Pro. I don’t know if it’s limited to pixel phones. It might be.

I don’t know what phone you have, but I have a Pixel 7 Pro, and I can simply long press the home key to invoke the “Circle to Search” command, and that will identify any QR code on the screen and overlay a link that I can tap.

How about you address my actual reply instead of changing the topic constantly?

The PGP public key still has to be shared plaintext… that makes it useless as anyone can sign it after that.

That sentence is incorrect. Just admit it.

an unsolicited message from someone you don’t know, asking you to email them could be suspect.

How is that any different from a matrix chat or unsolicited signal chat or literally any other communications platform? You were saying that specifically PGP was somehow fundamentally bad when it’s actually better than most other communication platforms, because the private key is private, and messages are signed with that private key, and cannot be spoofed by a third party. You can’t know who you’re actually talking to (just like every other chat platform!) but you at least know every future message is from that same person.

Did you even read that article? It has nothing to do with what I said. I pointed out that you don’t understand how public key encryption works, and you replied with an article about an exploit that does not refute what I said. An exploit that does An exploit that can be avoided by simply not clicking “load images”. An exploit that has probably been fixed in a client like Thunderbird anytime over the past six years. An exploit that has nothing to do with revealing your private key.

I don’t know why I’m wasting my time with you. You can’t even argue in good faith.

You need the private key to sign anything. The public key is only for encrypting outgoing emails which only the person with the private key can decrypt.

People have been using PGP over email for literally decades. You do not know what you’re talking about.

Me too, honestly.

Since you mentioned VSCode. I wanted to bring up VSCodium. It’s a fork of VSCode with no telemetry. Yes, it’s a full fledged IDE, and probably too much if you just want to markdown editor, but I use it for much more than that, and I think it’s great.

I had mine off for years. I would look at my subscribed channel feed and that’s pretty much it. But I recently turned it back on, and I actually like it. I pretty much only watch videos about science, math, philosophy, technology, SNL, and… Symphony of the Night randomizer races.

My entire recommended feed is just more of the same, and I’ve discovered tons of new channels to subscribe to. A lot of the channels I subscribe to only post like once every 2-4 weeks. I don’t want to have to do a search just to have something to watch at mealtime. Having random things recommended is nice.

If I watch a weird video out of the blue, I might see two or three recommended videos of that kind next time I open YouTube. Not at all like what OP’s screenshot is showing. I even went on a deep dive watching Snooker videos and it would still only recommend a few a day. And after I stopped watching him, I no longer see a single one of those videos in my feed.

I’d say it’s working pretty great for me. I don’t see what all the fuss is about.

Happy cake day!

Mmmmm deviled blood.

OK

I did, and you failed to explain, so I reiterated the question. My conclusion, now, is you’re either just to dense to understand this conversation, or two prideful to admit a mistake. Either way you’re not worth talking to.

DDG really likes to give bullshit AI generated website results. “Top 7 [thing] to buy in 2025”. And after reading for 2 minutes, you realize the page is utter shit. Paragraphs of fluff, some referral links, and absolutely no expert advice.

Why did you say “no”?

You said “No, not true”, then argued precisely in favor of OPs ideas with both of your numbered points. That doesn’t seem a little weird to you?

why is protection from malicious apps from the play store being performed on the phone instead of in the store?

Because it’s behavior-based. You can’t tell how software will behave until you run it. And running it means having real human interactions with the software and the environment on your phone. It’s literally impossible to predict what software will do just by reading the code. It’s the Halting Problem. I’m no expert though, and I’m kind of assuming.

And I’m sure that some exploits are detected in the source code by the Play Store when they’re done naively and obiviously.