Mike Kuketz is entirely funded by donations The donors are anonymous You can't know WHO is funding him. He has chosen a funding model of perfect opacity.
thats all for now….
Mike Kuketz: He is an absolutely fanatical supporter of Graphene OS, and the developers of Graphene OS are in close contact with him. The spread of Graphene OS is so important to him that he regularly organizes competitions and gives away Graphene OS phones as prizes.
Furthermore, he is an extreme Mastodon supporter. FACT: Mastodon was significantly funded by the EU and the German state. Mastodon was also funded by wealthy "philanthropists." Therefore, it is anything but a grassroots movement.
speaking of mastodon: here are some major donors
Jeff Atwood: The co-founder of Stack Overflow made the largest single donation to date, totaling €2.2 million in 2025. He had previously donated amounts of $100,000.
Craig Newmark: The founder of Craigslist is highlighted in reports regarding Mastodon's 2025 restructuring as one of its particularly generous donors.
Biz Stone: The co-founder of Twitter is not only a significant donor but also sits on the board of the U.S. non-profit organization Mastodon, Inc.
Mozilla: The organization behind the Firefox browser has also contributed amounts in the range of $100,000.
>>33296His funding model is the perfect cover-up:
No oversight: Since the donors' real names are not public, an organizatiouyghrapheneOS or an NGO) could theoretically run 500 small standing orders through various accounts to buy influence without it being noticed.
No register: There is no authority to verify whether the "540 private individuals" are truly just private individuals.
A matter of blind trust: One simply has to take Kuketz at his word that he does not receive any covert large donations.
>>33296who even is mike kuketz and why should i care
mike cucketz? i think i fucked his wife
>>33300In the German-speaking world, Kuketz is one of the most well-known and influential authorities on the subject of privacy. He spreads his propaganda primarily via his blog, Mastodon, and his own forum. By the way, that forum is a total cult; it's full of people who believe in the "rule of law" and think the EU or the German state are absolutely perfect. The forum is so hypocritical because you are NEVER allowed to question the underlying power structures of the system. This means you can't actually discuss privacy there at all, because you have to operate entirely within the confines of the system. And that is exactly what defines Kuketz. He is a respected "privacy expert" but his entire ideology is 100% conformist. It feels as though the German state deliberately and systematically made this "independent expert" so prominent. Lately, he’s become a bit more anti-US corporation, but only because ORANGE MAN BAD. People always act as if Kuketz were "independent", even though it’s so obvious which political corner he comes from (left-liberal) and that he is absolutely loyal to the state.
Average experience in the Kuketz forum:
>Oh, that won't happen, that would be illegal! Please, no conspiracy theories!! Please, no critical questions about the Google Pixel hardware!! No, the BND would never do that, we're living in a Rechtsstaat™! 14 Eyes? Never heard of it. Of course, EU laws protect our data perfectly and it's very competent!