What are the recommend changes to make iPhone more private? (tilvids.com)
cross-posted from: monero.town/post/462856...
Do eSIMs have any downsides from a privacy standpoint?
Compared to regular SIM cards....
Threads' New Terms and Conditions Affects the Fediverse (wedistribute.org)
Reflectacles to escape Facial Recognition (discuss.tchncs.de)
What do you guys think about this glasses to use daily to escape Facial Recognition? Worth the price? Does it really work?...
Any privacy respecting Instagram frontends?
Since Bibliogram is dead, has any new project popped up?...
Beeper Chat App (www.beeper.com)
Has anyone taken a good look at this from a privacy standpoint? I love this in concept, but not sure if it would be privacy conscience to share credentials for all of these different apps.
Cult of the Dead Cow unveils Veilid peer-to-peer project (www.theregister.com)
Loving that lead paragraph.
Mullvad VPN - Infrastructure audit completed by Radically Open Security (mullvad.net)
We invite you to read the final report of our third security audit, concluded in mid-June 2023, with many fixes deployed late June 2023. Further re-tests and a verification pass was performed during July....
Privacy minded cloud storage provider
I’m looking for a paid cloud storage provider (like google drive, but not google drive) which is privacy minded, so with features like e2e encryption. I’ve been using Jottacloud to backup my large collection of photos. Jottacloud has been satisfactory, but I’ve heard other users complain of incomplete backups, where...
Brave releases its own privacy-preserving image and video search (www.theverge.com)
“Brave Search users can now search for images and videos without being redirected to Google or Bing, though some advanced search capabilities are still absent.”
What 2FA app are you switching to? (iOS)
As we all know, Ravio has been removed from the recommended multi-factor authentication apps for iOS on PrivacyGuides....
Google's trying to DRM the internet, and we have to make sure they fail (par1.iv.ggtyler.dev)
How safe is Bitwarden?
I’m currently using 1Password but I’m no longer satisfied with it.
Why does Play Store prompt me to update Bitwarden?
I installed Bitwarden from F-Droid, but I happened to notice yesterday that Bitwarden was in my list of apps with updates available from Play Store, even though I installed it via F-Droid. Why would that be?...
The Spy Pixel problem
Unsurprisingly, some folks on raddle and reddit seem to have a big problem with lemmy. A lot of it is pure FUD....
Has anyone used Kagi Search (search engine)? (kagi.com)
Basically the title....
Is Nautilus data privacy friendly ?
Is Nautilus data privacy friendly ? If not, what file manager would you recommend on Ubuntu for data privacy respect ?
The shady world of Brave selling copyrighted data for AI training (stackdiary.com)
From the article:...
I've been working on a end-to-end encrypted survey system (github.com)
Thought people might be interested in seeing a project I’ve almost completed....
Introducing the Proton Drive Windows app (proton.me)
YSK: Garuda Lunux default browser (FireDragon) contains problematic extensions (lemmy.one)
Google, Amazon, Bing extensions have been added to Firedragon browser. These do not show up under “Addons and Themes”. I only found them in “about:debugging”...
Louis Rossman gets Zoom to sponsor a video about Zoom's anti-consumer terms (www.youtube.com)
cross-posted from: lemm.ee/post/582890...
YouTube tests disabling videos for people using ad blockers (www.theverge.com)
Proton Pass is now available (proton.me)
Which port to run Wireguard on
By default most people run Wireguard on port 51822. This of course shows that you are running a VPN. Is it better to run on another port, for example 443? But I heard that some ISPs frown on that....