I really don’t like how the “protect the children” excuse every neo fascist government is touting to sell their wet dreams of tracking everyone 24/7, still gets debated like it has any validity. Kudos to Japan for having seemingly working child protection laws, but this just doesn’t have any relevance to the surveillance machine that’s currently being built around us. It’s coming even if every child disappeared today. I’d rather see more active discussions around what the next steps are, alternatives to the current web and guides how to set them up for example.

https://f-droid.org/packages/dummydomain.yetanothercallblocker/

Local blacklist with wildcard support

What are you on about? If they get 95% of the population with this it’s still a huge win for them.

They responded to it when it first came up 4 months ago. I’ll paste my appropriate comment from that time.

The f-droid team spoke to that in a recent post. The post basically said that if that change isn’t stopped on a government level there’s no way for them to continue working. They didn’t mention roms.

Edit for the link: https://f-droid.org/en/2025/09/29/google-developer-registration-decree.html

I’m not worried. Either it’ll only affect their dedicated servers. Or it’ll be integrated into mastodon itself and then quickly forked.

Can you explain why you would think Steam is so bad? I would argue they’re pretty fair, especially with the option to buy steam cards for cash to not disclose your personal data. Does the client do some unsavory shit?