privacy

Google loses antitrust case vs Epic Games. Jury rules Google Play store constitutes an illegal monopoly (www.theverge.com)

Predirect: A manifest v3 web extension with minimal permissions to automatically redirect popular sites to privacy friendly frontends (github.com)

It supports both links and embeds and is available on firefox for android. List of sites is on github. I’m the main developer so you can ask questions.

Blazed Cloud - Your Simple and Minimal Cloud Storage Solution (blazedcloud.com)

Thoughts on this....

Stop the surveillance power grab. Tell Congress to OPPOSE HPSCI’s Horrific Surveillance Bill and SUPPORT real reforms! (getfisaright.net)

cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/9011376...

Privacy DNS chooser script v1.0 released!

Hello everyone!...

Why Even Your Local Grocery Store Wants Your Digital Data (www.youtube.com)

I honestly feel defeated right now, it feels like currently it’s impossible to truly stay private online unless one is willing to move to a cabin in the woods with no internet and you stop using tech all together and truly become a ghost and stay offline. Can someone help me feel like everything I am currently doing is...

Anyone know how to stop running into this in Safari on iOS 17, without getting rid of my privacy extensions? (sh.itjust.works)

Any good keyboard recommations?

Every year or so I try one or more privacy focused keyboards. I always end up right back on SwiftKey after a couple of weeks because most of the keyboards I try have the same problem: the predictions suck....

Telegram Android Notifications

How do notifications work in the official Telegram Android app (Play Store vs Site version maybe)? Does it have the same mechanism as Signal, which only recognizes the presence of notifications via Google services, but sends them via its web socket service?

BVG out here recommending the best 2FA Apps! (lemmy.one)

cross-posted from: lemmy.one/post/7807944...

privacy seems interesting, i guess I'll see what's it about didn't really think of it much when i moved from Canada to the eu

you can see this is a throwaway account, you likely won’t get replies. btw i recently switched from edge to arc browser since i got an invite somehow (am using startpage as my search engine)

Governments spying on Apple, Google users through push notifications: US senator | World DNA (www.youtube.com)

YouTube adds tracking parameters to shared URLs that can be traced back to individual Google accounts (nitter.net) German

Verizon Gave Phone Data to Armed Stalker Who Posed as Cop Over Email (www.404media.co)

The FBI investigated a man who allegedly posed as a police officer in emails and phone calls to trick Verizon to hand over phone data belonging to a specific person...

La privacy in chat online dal punto di vista legale * Chat è leggi (www.ircwebnet.com) Italian

Prima di usare una chat è consigliabile sapere queste cose.

When a service advertise as 100% open source, do you expect the website to be open-source too?

Long title, wopsi....

Proton Drive Camera Backup has Arrived! (proton.me)

This has been one of the key features I’ve been waiting for to finally be able to move away from Google Photos and OneDrive for mobile photos backup.

How much privacy will I lose if I switch to e/OS

I’m currently using GrapheneOS and I quite like it, but I would like to switch to something else. Will I lose much privacy if I switch to e/OS? Can I lock bootloader after flashing it like on GrapheneOS? I’m using Pixel 7 btw

Best way to get private phone number? (kbin.social)

Im looking to buy monero privately, and so i want to remove myself as much as possible. the easiest way to buy some on localmonero.co is thru paypal. i was looking to use google voice maybe? just make a new gmail for it? idk tho, what yall think?

VPN on Router Issue

I’ve used a VPN on individual devices for some time now. Every once in a while I come across a website that says it’s blocking my access because of my IP address. I then change to another server until one isn’t flagged anymore. The problem is there isn’t one server that’s free from this issue....

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