Same. As much as I hate the cookie dialog hellscape they inadvertently spawned (and probably need to follow up on with some additional legislation) I would much rather live under their tech laws than the garbage ones in my country.

I logged into telegram today and found that all my data had been deleted because I hadn’t used it in 6 months. Like I get why that feature might be desirable in some circumstances but for me, I’m not using end-to-end encryption because I’m sharing state secrets that need to self destruct upon opening - I just don’t want the middlemen.

I’ve been looking into alternatives like Matrix/Element, XMPP etc - it sounds like Element might be easier to get non-techy friends to adopt but it, from my understanding, has a fairly power hungry mobile app.

The cropping algorithm used for thumbnail generation. If there is a face in the image it would/should have centered faces so that they are visible.