YSK - Siri Forces Your Web Searches thru G♾️gle
You cannot change it, you must setup ScreenTime and disable Siri WebSearch...
Just received my Torproject Donation Merch! (feddit.de)
donate.torproject.org...

What is the general consensus on Zello?
I understand that Zello is not FOSS, but their website claims everything is end-to-end-encrypted....
Simple Mobile Tools apps
For anyone using any Simple Mobile Tools app be aware that they were sold few days ago (4 dec 2023) to a very privacy unfriendly company:...
Governments spying on Apple, Google users through push notifications - US senator | Reuters (www.reuters.com)

Is YouTube starting another attack on third party clients?
I’ve noticed than most of them have stopped working including all invidious and piped instances
Sen. Markey Writes to 14 Car Companies with a Variety of Questions About Data Privacy Policies (www.markey.senate.gov)
ArsTechnica article on the letter. Just a short summary, with some more context on other works and investigations into the auto industry's privacy issues....
A secret phone surveillance program is spying on millions of Americans (www.foxnews.com)
Imagine that every time you make a phone call, someone is keeping an extraordinarily detailed record of the call.

Self-hosted rotating proxy
I am looking for a solution. I’m thinking of a locally hosted socks5 proxy like TOR has, but instead of TOR, this self hosted proxy can be configured to rotate through other remote proxies that I have access to...
Plex starts narcing on its own users' anime and X-rated habits with an opt-out service, and it's going terribly (www.pcgamer.com)

Eleutheria, for more enjoyable private, and secure communication (jami.net)

Is CTemplar back? (ctemplar.com)
If this is legit, it’s the most low-key relaunch ever…
When Fans Become Stalkers (www.youtube.com)
It’s a long video for sure. But worth a watch if you are concerned about privacy....

Largest Study of its Kind Shows Outdated Password Practices are Widespread (www.cc.gatech.edu)
“More than half of the websites in the study accepted passwords with six characters or less, with 75% failing to require the recommended eight-character minimum. Around 12% of had no length requirements, and 30% did not support spaces or special characters.”

23andMe hackers accessed ancestry information on millions of customers using a feature that matches relatives (www.engadget.com)

Any automated method to check for basic OPSEC mistakes whilst posting content online?
If it were possible to run LLMs without a significant investment to GPU prowess, this problem wouldn’t be very relevant. However, the bigger FOSS LLMs require a lot of power to run....
Why you should never use Facebook or Google to log in to third party websites - what to do instead (tilvids.com)

Signal leaked random contacts to me! (feddit.de)
When I press on some message to forward it, it shows me Random usernames of contacts I don’t know. And it even shows some Mobile Numbers I don’t know. For example, one number starts with +964 that’s Iraq. I’m from Europe tho. These contacts and numbers are from all over the place....

Meta sues FTC, hoping to block ban on monetizing kids’ Facebook data
technology@kbin.social
Google Researchers’ Attack Prompts ChatGPT to Reveal Its Training Data (www.404media.co)
ChatGPT is full of sensitive private information and spits out verbatim text from CNN, Goodreads, WordPress blogs, fandom wikis, Terms of Service agreements, Stack Overflow source code, Wikipedia pages, news blogs, random internet comments, and much more....

Prem Sikka: How the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill is the government’s latest erosion of hard-won rights (leftfootforward.org)
'The Bill only targets the less well-off. There is no equivalent surveillance of legislators who accept payments to advance the interests of their corporate paymasters.'...

Help me choose my mobile browser
As per title, Help me choose a browser for android I have non rooted device. After all the researches I found best for me would be 1: Mull but with Some way for knowing which site have saved any data on my device (Maybe by extension or some defined page like about:config type) But as per my research I do not found any such...
Privacy First: A Better Way to Address Online Harms (www.eff.org)

A question about secure chats (sopuli.xyz)
Two questions....
