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The Boost android client for Lemmy is displaying these dark pattern ads pretending to be system notifications. What security/privacy conscious Lemmy clients do you recommend? (lemmy.ml)

"Cars are the worst product for privacy" | Hope this will reach the normie consumer! (foundation.mozilla.org)

No SIM? No Problem! (youtu.be)

Very interesting video about the tracking of cellular networks.

British man Aditya Verma appears in Spanish court over plane-bomb hoax (www.bbc.com)

TL;DR...

How private is Apple's Private Relay, really?

You’re forced to use Cloudflare. Don’t they track … everything?

On the fence about the importance of privacy? Start researching articles about using advertising data points(example article linked) (www.wordstream.com)

I’m wanting to get a better understanding of what the actual data is that advertising companies have on us, we all know its “a lot” we often hear....

VPS suggestions?

looking for a VPS with good specs for it’s price, at the same time it should be as safe as possible, I don’t want whoever’s running it to have access to my files...

Brave to end 'Strict' fingerprinting protection as it breaks websites (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

Mullvad uses Gmail (simplifiedprivacy.com)

Apple is bringing sideloading and alternate app stores to the iPhone (www.theverge.com)

Wi-Fi Password On Post-It Note (social.vivaldi.net)

Couldn’t help but share 😂

Cryptographers Just Got Closer to Enabling Fully Private Internet Searches (www.wired.com)

" three researchers have crafted a long-sought version of private information retrieval and extended it to build a more general privacy strategy. The work, which received a Best Paper Award in June 2023 at the annual Symposium on Theory of Computing, topples a major theoretical barrier on the way to a truly private search."

Should I get one of those shielded wallets?

Not sure this is the absolute best community but it’s what comes to mind....

Please, do not use Brave.

I have seen many people in this community either talking about switching to Brave, or people who are actively using Brave. I would like to remind people that Brave browser (and by extension their search engine) is not privacy-centric whatsoever....

This is how I KNOW it works as intended (i.imgur.com)

Amazon Ring stops letting police request footage in Neighbors app after outcry (arstechnica.com) Portuguese

Warrantless access may still be granted during vaguely defined “emergencies.”

Manifest v3 is Worse than I Thought (tube.kockatoo.org)

A great video about the Manifest v3 and how Google is trying to make you view ads.

Skynet is comming... (www.theverge.com)

Targeted Ads are a Cybersecurity Risk (avoidthehack.com)

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/11049489...

How do I prevent others random device suggestions in Public Areas? (lemmy.world)

As title suggests, how do I go about stopping my phone from scanning my surroundings for extra devices?...

Privacy Concerns on Lemmy: A Call for More User Control (github.com)

I’ve been grappling with a concern that I believe many of us share: the lack of privacy controls on Lemmy. As it stands, our profiles are public, and all our posts and comments are visible to anyone who cares to look. I don’t even care about privacy all that much, but this level of transparency feels to me akin to sharing my...

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