Google your name. There are a bunch of websites that will list your known addresses, affiliates(family or people you have lived with), phone numbers, social media, etc.
That data is collected through various means and then are sold to interested parties.
Google will monitor your deets in their search results and let you pull them, though I’m not sure how useful that is to most of the peeps in a privacy community.
We need to use some tool. If the government doesn’t have your private key, they can’t decrypt your messages. I don’t care how that is implemented, but companies like Signal will either fight to the death or bow out
this is the primacy for social security and we are going to cancel your social security if you do not click this link and fill in the information for which is required.
Louis Rossmann made a video on this. It’s called why I dtopped paying for Netflix. Of you have a smart tv, they want you to use the native app or else they limit your definition.
I have no clue, to be honest. Maybe you can find more info on Konstakang’s site.
I never asked myself those questions because I have literally the cheapest TV with an HDMI port I could find
The original(2021) walmart streaming box is like $20, it has custom roms for it. It has the same specs as the 4k Chromecast with androidtv. The 2023 version doesnt seem to have any roms(at least on xda), but can still be rooted.
Looks like you are using Firefox. Use arkenfox sure, but cut Mozilla off it’s 115 server network it uses to track you via FF by using a host deny list, FOSS git clone harden-firefox. You’ll have to disable to update ublock origin or remove the extensions line, but it’s better to just cut the adverts and tracking by removing it from the networks than by browser interception (slower, loss of performance, still hits your computer). Links included to do that in that repo.
Alternative browers are Librewolf and Qutebrowser. When you really don’t want to be tracked for some things use Lynx.
A great search engine replacement is Grasp. It’s being funded by Paul Graham, the founder of Y Combinator and although you only get 100 free searches a months, it can come in very handy. The search results it gives you, unlike Kagi which is just a reformat of DuckDuckgo yet with AI, it’s results are completely different than any other engine and imo, on point, surely for anything technical.
My general search engine is an envs.net free hosting of Searx. envs.net is a free Linux shell community with many services like blogs, email, matrix hosting, etc etc. If you do end up using their German Searx as main search donate to them, I did.
FOSS stands for free/libre and open source. For something to be libre it has to meet the 4 freedoms. Proprietary software doesn’t do that.
I don’t mean to start a holy war but FOSS doesn’t mean DRM streaming services. I appreciate the sentiment but I wanted to take the time to explain why many will disagree with your statement
Ok, so let me try again: OP didn’t say Netflix is FOSS. Nobody is saying Netflix is FOSS. OP is asking for something open source that can run proprietary software, which happens to be an alternative to Android TV. Your comment didn’t answer OP’s question and just added an unecessary and obvious comment which gives the idea that you are judging OP for utilizing proprietary software. If you are able to consume only free and open source software/hardware, good for you! That’s it, just make an attempt to be helpful and nice when people are trying to consume more open source stuff.
Edit: I saw that you actually gave an answer to OP afterwards. That’s nice!
Yeah I reread my comment and realized that it sounded pretty aggressive.
I get annoyed at a lot of the communist circle jerk but I’m sure many people get annoyed at my comments about free software. I’ll try to rephrase my comments in the future.
You are 100% right: netflix not being open is less than ideal, both from a freedom standpoint and for the privacy implications of it.
However, my 70+yo relative does not care about FOSS or even about their own privacy for that matter… since I, however, do care about their privacy, I’d like to pragmatically find something that may be better than a chromecast privacy-wise, while not being so much worse (or radically different) from it that they’ll ask me to “put the old thingy back - I can’t use this nerdy shit” :)
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