in your example thenproblem is the purchase method, not the payment method. Same thing would have happened if you payed with crypto.

Sometimes. But sometimes (like next week for example) they are also trying to implement mass surveillance of all EU-Citizens’ private communication.

you can’t just host your own server if the developers don’t release the server software.

laughs in PC

yes but I want the option to judge software myself. If I want software that has been looked over by Apple I can go to the Apple Appstore. If I want something that doesn’t fit their requirements I want the option to go somewhere else.

Bu that’s the point, it isn’t a selling point in europe. People here mainly use WhatsApp. As a european iPhone user with a lot of other iPhone users in my social circle I pretty much never get an iMessage. I got one two weeks ago, but before that my last iMessage was in 2018. I’ve never heard anyone here talk about blue vs green bubbles and never heard iMessage mentioned in an Android vs iOS discussion.

Can someone help me? I was norified by havibeenpwned that some password was exposed in this leak, yet when I search https://search.0t.rocks/ for my email it comes up empty.

Mainly he has a good reason to make more videos.

Most likely this. If not, there is a host of other possibilities they could make the connection. Sone that come to mind:

• You both have instagram and have connected in a way that makes it likely you are in a close relationship (tagged in photos, DMs)
• She allows Instagram to access the contacts on her phone, and OP is saved in there as her S.O.
• They are connected through Whatsapp or some other Meta service.
• The Company targets their ads at category which they both fall into (companies can manage which groups see their ads VERY specifically)
• Coincidence

and if you pay them to not show you ads, rest assured that they will still process and share your data.