Downsides of Signal alternatives compared to Signal?
I’m thinking of the things listed on the Privacy Guides real-time communication section...
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I’m thinking of the things listed on the Privacy Guides real-time communication section...
I realise that this question is subject to local trends (and I’m in the US), but I encourage people in other countries to submit their methods!...
I’m looking for a watch that is able to do basic “smart” things like show notifications and ping my phone if I misplace it. A timer/stopwatch would also be good, and a long lasting battery....
I’m talking full phone and blocking. Not just browser....
U2F keys can be purchased online for the price of a cup of coffee. They’re being touted as the next best thing in online security authentication....
I know the prevailing sentiment for a long time in the privacy community has been “DAE Youtube bad?” though I have always thought that it is kinda overblown. Besides, I am using Firefox which is supposed to isolate tabs so they can’t speak to each other, so I felt a small amount safer using Youtube....
If the owner of the standard notes will now be a proton, doesn’t that contradict this principle? I have a proton email account but I don’t want it linked to my standard notes account. I don’t strongly trust companies that offer packaged services like google or Microsoft. I prefer to have one service from one company. I am...
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/14131393...
I feel like this may be a bit of a counterintuitive question considering Graphene’s privacy features but, is there a way to remote erase or find my phone with GrapheneOS in the event the phone is lost?
My main laptop is dead, so I’m on a potato laptop with a 6th gen Intel i3 processor and 4GB of RAM. I have IceCat installed, but I really don’t like the defaults it provides....
edit: please see comments for more informed insights....
I wish to mention learnings from the coupious time i spend on learning online privacy ,security and anonymity for my b school (MBA) admissions interview. Can I market is as a cybersecurity internship. But Cyber security has a different meaning altogether. I’m pretty much at the advance stage of the privacy journey( read all...
Is it possivle to debloat a fire tv stick? I.e. remove all amazon related apps and replace the launcher. The info I find online is scattered around and depends on the version.
Recently stumbled upon this note-taking app called SiYuan, but it honestly looks a bit too good to be true(?). Has anyone here used it or got any experience with it? Trying to replace Obsidian is a difficult task, and I’ve been through almost all note-taking apps there are out there, however this one looks fairly similar....
I am not satisfied with Linux’s security and have been researching alternative open source OS for privacy and security So far only thing that’s ready to use is GrapheneOS (Based on Android) but that’s not available on desktop (Though when Android release Desktop mode it may become viable)...
Apparently Apple can end-to-end encrypt your iCloud, but it’s opt in because they still want to profit off your data >_ iCloud -> Advanced Data Protection...
Are comments no longer visible for anyone else using the youtube frontends? I can no longer see comments with either invidious, piped, or viewtube, and I’ve tried several instances of each. With invidious there’s just nothing there below the video description. With viewtube I get an error message. And with piped I see...
I’ve noticed that ads are absolutely everywhere, and wanted to post this to disillusion some of the places we see ads but don’t realize. It would be harder to make a list of places you don’t see ads....
Idk if this is the right instance for this, but how fucking tired of these forced ads at gas pumps is everyone else?...
Folks, I have finally figured it out....
First, let me say that this is the worst phone I’ve ever owned. I don’t have have “fuck it, I’m buying a Pixel” money right now, but I’d like to try un-ruining my phone if possible. And what are the best ways to back up my phone before the switch?
It seems like everywhere is asking for my ID multiple times and there are multiple international companies involved....
I’ve been using SwiftKey for waaaaaaay too long. I shoulda switched when Microsoft bought them out....
I’m looking for an android browser to open webapps isolated from my general browsing...
Today I was watching a few YouTube videos about groundwork with horses. First time I did that. Yes, I was logged in....