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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.
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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
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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.

jmp242, in what E-Mail provider do you use and why

I use Fastmail - not too expensive, really good webmail client, has working shared calendar that isn’t OWA, and isn’t advertising scraping my e-mail. I would have liked a more private service, but back when I moved from self hosted to a service, that was about the best I could get that also had calendaring.

smotherlove, in what E-Mail provider do you use and why

mailbox.org is quite good. I prefer them over protonmail because I want to use my own client. If you don’t care about using a web UI, use protonmail, otherwise use mailbox.org. you can also take a look at tutanota

poVoq,
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Also comes with an XMPP account built in, although they should probably update their Ejabberd sometimes 😅

DudeDudenson, in I don't want Meta AI in WhatsApp, even if it doesn't snoop on my texts

I’m just gonna say, end to end encryption is jack shit when they can just access the content at the source, analyze it with local rules and call sending to meta how often you talk about a certain topic and with whom telemetry

possiblylinux127,

Or for that matter you could just not properly encrypt it

Cheradenine, in F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

If you are not already using it, github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium, it’s updated and improved frequently

‘Get Android App Updates Directly From the Source.’

Currently supported App sources:

Open Source - General: GitHub GitLab Codeberg F-Droid Third Party F-Droid Repos IzzyOnDroid SourceForge SourceHut Other - General: APKPure Aptoide Uptodown APKMirror (Track-Only) Huawei AppGallery Jenkins Jobs Open Source - App-Specific: Mullvad Signal VLC Other - App-Specific: Telegram App Steam Mobile Apps Neutron Code “HTML” (Fallback): Any other URL that returns an HTML page with links to APK files

Tibert, in Anyone use Skiff?

I find what they are offering interesting. But I myself use Thunderbird on my pc, spark on my phone, to get the emails from Gmail and yahoo mail.

Skiff isn’t compatible with imap, and from what they are saying, is because it’s an encrypted service, and using imap would require to unencrypt them.

Taleya, in Should I become "privacy-focused" despite my data before I was "privacy-focused" was used or sold?

‘Should i bother installing door locks? Someone’s already been in my house’

Yes. They have everything up to X date. Protect your future

dingus, in I just want to say that I'm so happy that people are taking notice of privacy concerns in cars
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I’m basically in the position that I’m driving a car from 1999, and when it finally dies, I’ll either be resigned to riding the bus or finding another aged used car without all this absolute bullshit in it.

Maybe it really is time for the Free Open Source Vehicle.

netchami, in Why there aren't ad blocking apps on Google Play

Let me summarize it for you: Because Google is an advertising company

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