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YSK - Siri Forces Your Web Searches thru G♾️gle

You cannot change it, you must setup ScreenTime and disable Siri WebSearch...

Just received my Torproject Donation Merch! (feddit.de)

donate.torproject.org...

UK porn watchers could have faces scanned (www.bbc.co.uk)

Looks like UK is going the same way as a few states. Spare a thought for us. So messed up this increasing surveillance state.

What is the general consensus on Zello?

I understand that Zello is not FOSS, but their website claims everything is end-to-end-encrypted....

Governments spying on Apple, Google users through push notifications - US senator | Reuters (www.reuters.com)

Apple Confirms Governments Using Push Notifications to Surveil Users (www.macrumors.com)

Librewolf but like... for chromium?

My main browser is Librewolf but I keep a chromium browser just in case. Previously used brave but their flatpak is shit. Ungoogled chromium seems ok but it looks like they don’t change much from upstream chromium. Any good chromium browsers which harden their browsers like librewolf does for more privacy?

Governments spying on Apple, Google users through push notifications -US senator (www.reuters.com)

MS Outlook Blocking Tutanota Emails As Spam (tuta.com)

Started in mid November and despite repeated requests from Tuta(nota) and reassurances from MS, it’s still happening and MS have gone silent on the subject.

Simple Mobile Tools apps

For anyone using any Simple Mobile Tools app be aware that they were sold few days ago (4 dec 2023) to a very privacy unfriendly company:...

Two minutes of DuckDuckGo rearranging & dropping results for the same search; Bing, Startpage, & DDG all unreliable vs. Google :( (files.catbox.moe)

Try it with this search:...

Kuketz Custom ROM Review: /e/ (www-kuketz--blog-de.translate.goog)

Signal Facing Collapse After CIA Cuts Funding (kitklarenberg.substack.com)

On November 16th, Meredith Whittaker, President of Signal, published a detailed breakdown of the popular encrypted messaging app’s running costs for the very first time. The unprecedented disclosure’s motivation was simple - the platform is rapidly running out of money, and in dire need of donations to stay afloat....

Eleutheria, for more enjoyable private, and secure communication (jami.net)

Self-hosted rotating proxy

I am looking for a solution. I’m thinking of a locally hosted socks5 proxy like TOR has, but instead of TOR, this self hosted proxy can be configured to rotate through other remote proxies that I have access to...

When Fans Become Stalkers (www.youtube.com)

It’s a long video for sure. But worth a watch if you are concerned about privacy....

Sen. Markey Writes to 14 Car Companies with a Variety of Questions About Data Privacy Policies (www.markey.senate.gov)

ArsTechnica article on the letter. Just a short summary, with some more context on other works and investigations into the auto industry's privacy issues....

23andMe hackers accessed ancestry information on millions of customers using a feature that matches relatives (www.engadget.com)

Prem Sikka: How the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill is the government’s latest erosion of hard-won rights (leftfootforward.org)

'The Bill only targets the less well-off. There is no equivalent surveillance of legislators who accept payments to advance the interests of their corporate paymasters.'...

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