I wish more people clean URLs before sharing it to others. (lemmy.ml)
I see a lot of people, including friends and family, sharing URLs rife with tracking parameters....
What sort of data does Google collect from Google Calender, Keep, Photos, Drive?
Since it’s mostly free, there has to be a catch. I may be wrong, but since it’s Google, there’s always a catch nowadays.
Meta (Facebook / Instagram) to move to a "Pay for your Rights" approach (noyb.eu)
The Wall Street Journal reported that Meta plans to move to a “Pay for your Rights” model, where EU users will have to pay $ 168 a year (€ 160 a year) if they don’t agree to give up their fundamental right to privacy on platforms such as Instagram and Facebook. History has shown that Meta’s regulator, the Irish DPC, is...
what E-Mail provider do you use and why
I’m currently still using gmail unfortunately...
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Syncthing | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository (f-droid.org)
Sync files (KeePass) between devices (PC, mobile, tablet, RPi)
Ecosia.org updates its Privacy Policy (www.ecosia.org)
From September 2023, we will be gradually rolling out our new unique search offer. This will happen over several months and won’t apply to everyone at the same time. This means that when you search through Ecosia, we work with either Microsoft Bing or, with your consent, Google to provide you with search results and ads. In...
What We Must Ask About Surveillance State Failures (thedissenter.org)
Signal's Meredith Whittaker: AI is fundamentally 'a surveillance technology' (techcrunch.com)
USB Debugging Samsung Phone with a GUI
Is there a GUI which I can just click and disable and enable packages debugging Samsung Android phones? I heard that there are options which are much simpler than vanilla ADB. I just want to get rid ofll the Samsung/Google/Meta bloat prepackaged with the phone. Appreciate any pointers/advice.
Language Learning Apps Harvest Data (sh.itjust.works)
I should have known if the apps free, you’re the product. Duolingo appears to harvest the most data compared to other language learning apps....
Should I become "privacy-focused" despite my data before I was "privacy-focused" was used or sold?
For example, I have been using Google or Apple for 7 years, and seeing that I was fingerprinted, tracked through third-party cookies, etc. I want to switch to a more private option....
Introducing Proton CAPTCHA | Proton (proton.me)
Encrypted email provider Proton has built its own CAPTCHA service | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
Two Days After Passing The Invasive Online Safety Bill, UK Gvmt Officials Get Caught Secretly Lobbying An Independant Privacy Regulator To Approve UK-Wide Facial Recongnition Systems (www.theguardian.com)
From the article:...
Today The UK Parliament Undermined The Privacy, Security, And Freedom Of All Internet Users (www.eff.org)
Chromium vs Brave
This might have been discussed to death by now, unfortunately I couldn’t find any discussion on it on Lemmy. Though I would love to be corrected on that!...
Reproducible builds, signing keys, and binary repos | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository (f-droid.org)
I know some people here distrust F-droid for some reason. Here is a blog post explaining how they are working on improving security
Mullvad Annouce Removal Of All Disk Infrastructure - Now RAM Only (mullvad.net)
Today we announce that we have completely removed all traces of disks being used by our VPN infrastructure!
cost of privacy related services
I have been reading about internet privacy for a long time. As time went on, I got a vpn subcription, a custom domain, a paid email hosting, etc. No regrets on the services themselves....
What messenger app to recommend to those not interested in privacy?
So I’m in a somewhat unfortunate situation. My circle of friends doesn’t want to switch to another messenger and we are currently stuck on the worst possible platform for security: Telegram....
Privacy respecting smart watches for android
Recently got a Galaxy 4 smart watch gifted, but I am continuously getting barraged with (repeated) permission requests and hit with restrictions on features due to not granting certain permissions....
Search engines compared (lemmy.basedcount.com)
PSA: The open source Raivo multi-factor authenticator announced they were acquired by "Mobime" (github.com)
Windows pc calling home (even while asleep) (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
I have a network-wide pi hole and I noticed that it requested activity.windows.com, a url blocked by my pi hole, even while my pc is suspended. I pinged 10.0.0.217 and it is currently unreachable. So, somehow, windows pc’s turn on networking, phones home, and turns off even while suspended....
