What you want would not be possible for Instagram. The best thing to do would be to not use Instagram but if that's not an option, the most that you can do is use Nora (FOSS) for Instagram and other social media.
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Exactly. People who aren't as tech savvy would think something's wrong because they think companies won't lie to them/they'd think they have no other way and they would have to opt back in.
There isn't any explanation about what the user can do on that banner. It's just "accept it or we'll annoy you and make it very inconvenient to use the service." And most people would hit 'accept'.
Privacy keeps worsening day by day now. 2026 feels just as privacy-centered as 1984 nowadays.
UK Govt. to hold three-month consultation to improve kids' safety online
The United Kingdom, or rather the Oceania Kingdom (1984 reference), will come after every service available on the internet. They're definitely not doing this to protect kids, it's to suppress our voices. We lose all of our privacy and anonymity the moment we give them our face and data.
Most people use VPNs to bypass state-imposed restrictions or anonymity but if you'd have to give your data and face to the government before you access the VPN, it kind of just negates the reason why one would use a VPN.
This reminds me of the news I once read about amateur radio operators who were arrested and are facing death penalty. The government accused them for 'espionage' and 'treason' without any evidences.
One of the Belarusian HAM operator posted on Reddit: “State propaganda unironically claims these men were ‘pumping state secrets out of the air’ using nothing more than basic $25 Baofeng handhelds and consumer-grade SDR dongles. Any operator knows that hardware like this is physically incapable of cracking the modern AES-256 digital encryption used by government security forces. It is a technical fraud, yet they are being charged with High Treason and Espionage. The punishment in Belarus for these charges is life in prison or the death penalty.”
I would not be surprised if I ever any other news like that from the U.K. in a few months or years.
The moment we give our face or our data to companies and the government, it's no longer our face.
2026 is gonna be 1984.
These banners are so big as to obscure the majority of the content on the site.
They're designed that way intentionally so that it becomes too annoying and it forces us to opt back in for the sake of convenience for using the service.
If that shit ever pops up in any of my devices, I'm not gonna use that website ever. These corporate tricks are just disgusting.
Yes, it works for Android
Use Signal. It's pretty secure and private and the best thing about it is that it's also FOSS!