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floofloof, in Privacy = no free speech

Ah yes, just like how free speech means corporations must be allowed to bribe politicians.

gomp, in Privacy = no free speech

Didn’t you know? Disabling ad blockers ensures free speech and apparently may also peacefully end the current crisis in the middle east… oh, did I mention it helps with world hunger too?

ctr1, in What are your preferred methods of file encryption?
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I use LUKS-encrypted LVM volumes to store everything (and transfer via SSH or HTTPS), but would use GPG if I needed to encrypt individual files.

ikiru, in What are your preferred methods of file encryption?

I’ve used VeraCrypt successfully to encrypt volumes/folders.

It’s worked great for me, although I recently started encountering issues accessing files but it seems the problem is with my external and not with the encryption method. Hopefully I can recover those files someday. Backup your backups and then backup again.

lukecooperatus, in Block AI bots from your website
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FYI, bots and crawlers can simply ignore your robots.txt entirely. This is probably common knowledge around these parts, but I’ve run into clients at work who thought it was a law or something.

I do like the idea of intentionally polluting the data robots will see, as suggested by this comment. There’s no reliable way to block them without also blocking humans, so making the crawled data as useless as possible is a good option.

Just be careful not to also confuse screen readers with that tactic, so that accessibility is maintained for humans. It should be easy enough if you keep your aria attributes filled out appropriately, I imagine.

netchami, in Is WhatsApp bad for privacy?

TL;DR: Yes it is, it’s terrible. What would you expect from a Facebook product? Use Signal instead.

Lettuceeatlettuce, in Why does this community, which is privacy oriented, use Discord rather than Matrix?
@Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml avatar

It’s the timeless debate between accessibility and exclusivity. Do you want more people in your community by compromising some values? Or would you rather be a hardliner but never reach those people?

Most of the time you have to pick somewhere on that spectrum. It’s a question of pragmatism and utilitarianism.

Does it do more good for lots of people to be slightly more privacy-aware, or is it better to have a very small portion of the population that are super privacy-aware?

You have to decide, and the debate rages on all the time.

bedrooms, in Chat Control 2.0: EU governments set to approve the end of private messaging and secure encryption

Terrorists will have no problem writing their own encryption program, and more ordinary citizens will install malicious apps from unofficial app stores.

p000l, in Since Brave is apparently absolutely terrible, is Vivaldi any better IF YOU CAN'T USE FIREFOX*?

Vivaldi is pretty good, just ignored because it’s not opensource. It does not come across as Chrome/Brave evil.

Melody, in Is Brave Browser currently as privacy disrespecting as some say?

YES, IT IS!

You should NOT trust Brave to not play fast and loose with your privacy. They already operate an advertising network (it operates on those stupid little BAT tokens) and they DO inject ads and affiliate links.

I strongly recommend Firefox^1^ or Librewolf.

^1^ - You must install plugins and apply user.js fixes yourself to properly harden Firefox completely against tracking; but this is doable.

LWJanniesRCucks, in Please, do not use Brave.

Not reading all that, still sticking to based Brave 😎

an0nym0us, in Please, do not use Brave.
@an0nym0us@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

You sound so fucking dumb with your blind cryptocurrency hate. Brave is at least as private as any competing browser. The CEO of Brave is a total fucking asshole but you didn’t even mention that.

Anyway, sent using Brave.

Boring, in a want to buy a tablet to take notes at school

Since its for school you’ll want it to be reliable and to work 100% of the time. I’d just get a big brand and not connect it to the internet if you don’t want your data collected.

Other than that you can try to block the telemetry at the DNS level by VPN to your home with a pihole instance or using a private DNS.

If you really don’t wanna use apple or google OS, then best bet is to buy the tablet for the hardware and try to flash a different OS. But then you’ll risk it not working very well or having app compatibility issues.

Boring, in Delete your digital history from dozens of companies with this app

This is straight from their privacy policy:

We do not sell your personal information in a way that most people would think of as a sale. However, we do participate in online targeted advertising and use analytics which allows tech companies, in exchange for our use of their services, to use user information collected from our App to improve their own products and to improve the services they provide to others. Under some laws, this is considered our “sale” of your user data to third parties. You can opt-out of this as provided in the “How to Submit a Request” section below.

Endorkend, in what E-Mail provider do you use and why
@Endorkend@kbin.social avatar

I'm oldschool.

I've had my own domains and mail servers for the past 3 decades and will maintain them for as long as I live.

And these days, all but the storage runs of Pi3, so it's barely using any power either.

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