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Hellstormy, in Wickr alternatives
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SimpleX is a good replacement

Sharpiemarker, in Insight on how the ADs network is built?

Pihole

Loucypher,

PiHole is great but eventually moved to AdGuard Home as it is easier to maintain and has lot of features out of the box

DreadPotato,
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Cornhole

RovingFox, in Insight on how the ADs network is built?
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Probably not enough to use an adblock. Personally www.youtube.com/channel/UCYVU6rModlGxvJbszCclGGw this guy helped me understand internet tracking and profiling.

catfooddispenser,

Could you recommend a specific video of his where everything is laid out?

RovingFox,
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Can’t remember the exact video. But research a bit about web fingerprinting.

Cwilliams, in How Tracking and Technology in Cars Is Being Weaponized by Abusive Partners

Not OP, but here’s the link if it didn’t load for other people.

PrecisePangolin, in todoist alternatives

TickTick may fit your needs?

charles,

I switched over to TickTick when Todoist suddenly changed their pricing model a few years ago. I don’t remember the specifics of what happened but I remember being very frustrated with the sudden changes as it would’ve required me to change my whole system.

I’ve been very happy with TickTick since then and would strongly recommend OP checks it out to see if it fits their needs.

emli42,

Not sure if a Chinese app will offer more privacy.

PrecisePangolin,

Fair assessment, official company headquarters based in California but a lot of Chinese devs as well as the owner. Good to be aware of.

Zerush, in One of the Most Controversial US Spy Programs Just Got Quietly Renewed
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Do you mean Android?

spez_, in Dropbox is sharing users' files with OpenAI, here's how to opt out

Use your own NAS

Lemmyfunbun, in Dropbox is sharing users' files with OpenAI, here's how to opt out

The problem with cryptomater in my mind is eventually with quantum computing the encryption will be cracked. Even if you delete the file its stored somwhere else in their backups. There will be a treasure of good information even if its 10 yearas from now to be harvested.

lud,

encryption will be cracked

We don’t know that yet.

sapphiria, in Dropbox is sharing users' files with OpenAI, here's how to opt out
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How is this legal? Isn’t this a violation of copyright law at the very least, plus any other licenses that might apply to the files?

TGhost,
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i think its a scenario well accepted within the terms of uses…

Recently those of OpenAi changed btw, and that’s very interesting… to read.
They sent the mail the night of Christmas if i’m not wrong lmaooooo

If laws were made for citizens, we would know for now 😆

Cosmocrat, in Dropbox is sharing users' files with OpenAI, here's how to opt out

Why not just encrypt your data before uploading to the cloud?

TGhost,
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why return the problem on the user ?

ipkpjersi,

Because if not this it will always be something else.

monsieur_jean,

Users are responsible for their own privacy.

Having Open Source projects providing the tools for that is extremely important. But ultimately the responsibility lies in the users hands. End to End encryption is the way. My files should 100% be encrypted on my side, with private keys that I own and nobody else. :)

TGhost,
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Not everyone can do it.
I agree, but in this society even with that in considerations, corpo have responsabilities and duty…

Don’t misunderstand me, I’m on your technical philosophy. For my self, I trust my self. But society is manipulated with promises, and theses broken promises we have to talk about them, and outloud.

Mogard, in "TV box" reccomandation

For remuxes, from all cheap tv boxes i have tested all of them have some issues. only shield pro 2019 give me peace of mind. The only bad thing is it can’t with av1.

For privacy, you can bypass google account and debloat all google spyware, for apps aurora store and sideload are your friends.

Why9, in Police to be able to run face recognition searches on 50m driving licence holders | Facial recognition | The Guardian

You have to renew your driver’s license every 10 years. That means in the worst case scenario, the image they’re using of you could be 10 years out of date.

Those images are also not detailed enough to be used for facial recognition. Sure, it could help narrow down the list of suspected people, but they’re crazy if they think they’d be able to pinpoint someone based on what they looked like 5-10 years prior.

I suspect these powers are being used for something else more sinister. Immigration, for example, to clamp down on people who have licenses and are delivery drivers, or taxi drivers for example.

ElderWendigo, (edited )

It’s not the kind of search where they need to be very precise; certainly not pinpoint accuracy. t’s just another tool to narrow their searches that rely on other details.

And if you’re a fully grown adult, not undergoing radical facial reconstruction, it seems unlikely to be that the relative distances and orientations of your eyes, nose, and mouth are going to change very much. My driver’s license photo is at least a decade old and even though my face looks different on the surface due to age, changes in weight, and changes in hair color and length I’d bet my key features are still in relatively the same places.

Of course they could also be using this for more sinister purposes. No argument there.

Atemu, (edited ) in What's the best tool for discovering what your IP is when you are using TOR?
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ifconfig.me. Can also be be curl’d.

Easier to remember is to just search for what is my ip in clear net DuckDuckGo (or Kagi if you have it).

they all ask for CAPTYA which is an obvious attempt to obtain ones true IP.

How exactly is a CAPTCHA supposed to discover your “true IP”?

Also note that your IP address is by far not the only thing used to fingerprint you. See abrahamjuliot.github.io/creepjs/ and browserleaks.com.

Use TOR browser if you want your starting conditions to be reasonably anonymous.

Even more critical for fingerprinting is user behaviour though.

wowwoweowza,

Perhaps I was misinformed about CAPTYA gathering the true IP?

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  • wowwoweowza,

    Thank you.

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  • Davel23,

    Wimi.com. Easier still.

    fruitycoder, in [Discussion] How do you feel about age verification on Porn sites?

    Sites should empower parents to control that. Have a sign in by default and an option to ask the site to block ips associated with you to be able to sign up for more accounts.

    Are there ways around it? Sure. It’s a just a lock to keep honest kids out. If your kid doesn’t feel comfortable about asking about stuff like this or feel like they have to around you, you aren’t going to win, they’ll find it, and it’ll be a blast for them. If you talk about it, at least acknowledge the issues with it, say when it is and isn’t appropriate, etc it’ll do leagues better then all bans and censorship attempts in the world.

    ridethisbike,

    The IP thing backfires when you inevitably get assigned a new IP and the guy down the street now can’t look at his porn anymore because the website blocked the IP

    fruitycoder,

    True it requires more coordination to be helpful. And tbh I think every household network should be going through and host a Tor relay so shrug but something to the effect of some minimal form of authentication that the person is a consenting adult that is given out at the discretion of the person would be useful for this case.

    Not totally sure what the best way to do that is. Keys, cookies, OIDC from trusted party, block chain, DIDs (Decentralized Identifiers), or heuristics like IPs, or digital finger prints.

    ridethisbike,

    Oooorrr we could not do all that and let parents do their jobs. How about we empower them to learn how to setup parental controls on their routers and on the kids devices?

    fruitycoder,

    It’s not enough in my experience shrug but I agree it should on parents to support it

    possiblylinux127, in Can Apps Share Data Back n Forth on GrapheneOS?

    This is why I don’t like Graphene os. Its encourages using proprietary apps that over Foss. With a Foss camera app from F-droid you don’t need play services and the app with do exactly what its meant to do, nothing more.

    Gooey0210, (edited )

    There’s gos’ camera already preinstalled, no need to download anything 🫣

    They discourage fdroid because it’s not very secure, until it ever gets better

    There’s the secure Accrescent, but it has almost no apps in it

    (Yeah, but actually you can just use obtainium, this is probably the future)

    VolunTerry, (edited )

    I’d like to see some evidence that F-Droid is less secure (or privacy respecting) than using the big Gs playstore or services, which many, if not most, playstore apps depend on to function.

    I mean this sincerely and respectfully. I’d love to look onto it.

    Because in my current opinion and approach, if you vet your apps and practice good digital hygiene, then FOSS>GOOGL/Alphabet for nearly everything from a privacy and security perspective.

    Edit: if I misunderstood and you were saying don’t use G playstore or Aurora AND don’t use F-Droid, then may I ask where are you getting your apps, other than directly from the devs page or github and so on?

    techognito,
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    There is an app called Obtainium. This allows downloading signed apps directly from source

    possiblylinux127,

    For that to work you need to know the app exists first. I also like to look at F-droids anti feature list.

    VolunTerry,

    Me too, but good to know I can check that at F-Droid and then fetch from source if I want. Best of both.

    VolunTerry,

    Thanks!

    MagneticFusion,

    Here is one brief video explaining some of F Droids security issues: youtu.be/lAbgeJau3eE&t=305piped link: piped.video/watch?v=lAbgeJau3eE&t=314

    techognito,
    @techognito@lemmy.world avatar

    That is old(ish) news. And f-droid have since then implemented allowing reproducible builds

    which allows for developer signed keys to be used for the APK

    possiblylinux127,

    Keep in mind that the security issues were addressed a while back. It was in a blog post.

    VolunTerry,

    Thank you for providing some info for discussion MagneticFusion.

    Gooey0210,

    I’m a little bit too late 🤪

    I personally don’t use anything of google, browsing and trying apps from fdroid, and have obtainium for the ones I usually use

    But Graphene’s approach is all about security, and privacy only after it So they recommend the most secure options first, and don’t recommend minor options So, their current opinion on fdroid that it’s less secure than googlag’s store, so a more secure option would be googlag, or that second store that has 3 apps in it

    But it’s for “marketplace” apps, so obtainium not in the scope, but kinda should be (we just need to rethink where we get our apps from)

    VolunTerry,

    Good points and makes sense to me. Thanks.

    MagneticFusion,

    Also to correct you, Google Camera does not need any Play Services installed. The reason I brought up Play Services is because I would need it to be able to get RSC working on Google Messages which I eventually plan on doing once RSC support is added to iOS.

    sir_reginald,
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    by “RSC” do you mean RCS? en.wikipedia.org/…/Rich_Communication_Services

    MagneticFusion,

    Tf are you on about? I AM looking for a foss camera option. But it is practically non existent. Besides 2, Open Camera and Libre Camera, both of which have a UI from 2012 and Libre Camera lacks a ton of features.

    And despite that, GrapheneOS comes with its own open source camera, but there is a reason nobody uses it, it has no features just like the other very limited open source camera apps (Open Camera excluded)

    possiblylinux127,

    The lineage os camera is pretty good and can be installed outside of lineage os.

    MagneticFusion,

    I checked it out. Has a nice UI but suffers the same fate as the stock GrapheneOS camera. Lacks basic features such as panoramic photos

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