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> Americans’ Outrage At Unconstitutional Mass Surveillance Made A Difference

It objectively did not. Ten years after Snowden nothing significant has changed. In support of their argument, EFF states "some of the National Security Agency’s most egregiously illegal programs and authorities have shuttered or been forced to end" which is a painfully ignorant assumption which is not based on any objective evidence.

> Privacy Options Are So Much Better Today

Today, almost all people are forced to make a choice between two proprietary closed source platforms - iOS and Android - both of which are much worse options for privacy than even the Windows desktop equivalents from ten years ago. Eff goes on to recommend a closed source messenger app from Facebook - the jokes just write themselves. They even scare readers away from the oh-so-hard to use GPG, at which point you really have to wonder what their ulterior motive is.

The whole article is just hilariously out of touch.