Seems legit, Google knows what is best for me. (lemmy.world)
Sorry for the poor quality / lack of screenshot, this is from my work computer which I isolate from my personal devices, so I just took a picture.
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Microsoft has not stopped forcing Edge on Windows 11 users (www.ctrl.blog)
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Google has a VPN service now (lemmy.world)
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My privacy journey and privacy questions
Online privacy: Best privacy related thing I’ve done is use a nickname. If I search my real name on Google, only two results show up (and my Instagram, but I deleted it) from the same site, my place in some school competition. That’s it! But if I search my made-up nickname… Github, Gitlab, Reddit, StackOverflow,...
Google faces a £7 billion lawsuit for blocking search engine competition at the expense of consumers (consumervoice.uk)
The lawsuit argues that Google has effectively ‘bought’ the UK mobile phone search engine market. Google forced mobile phone handset manufacturers to pre-install the Google Search and Google Chrome browser apps on devices that use Google’s Android operating system in order to obtain a licence to use Google Play....
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Google Chrome "enhances" our privacy further
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Google: Haven't provided your phone number? It'd be a shame if something happened to your email... (lemmy.ml)
Gmail prompt to provide phone number sounds like a threat
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Just out: The Norwegian Data Protection Authority won against Meta in Oslo District Court (www.datatilsynet.no)
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I just want to say that I'm so happy that people are taking notice of privacy concerns in cars
Mozilla released their studies, and I’m seeing a growing number of posts on the Internet about cars and the privacy nightmare they entail. I remember how this issue wasn’t talked about earlier because “just buy an older car” was still prevalent. I’m so happy that people are taking notice. Thank you to this community...
How cars spy on their drivers and passengers (foundation.mozilla.org)
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Why there aren't ad blocking apps on Google Play (adguard.com)
The article is AdGuard centric but it sheds light on the whole process where Google suddenly decided to ban ad blockers.
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BusKill Dead Man Switch now available in a brick-and-mortar in Germany 🧱🛡️ (www.buskill.in)
We’re happy to announce that, for the first time ever, BusKill cables can be purchased in-personin Leipzig, Germany....
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Is the fairphone really worth it?
The new fairphone 5 came out, it looks cool but the price is really, really high…...
How to secure a Samsung device?
I have just received a Samsung galaxy fold5 through the post, however I imagine it’s full of bloatware and I’m inexperienced with this type of device. What is the first things that you would do to secure it? Thank you 😊...
I has come to my attention that some users have never heard of F-droid. F-droid is a free software app store for android (f-droid.org)
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I Tracked an NYC Subway Rider's Movements with an MTA ‘Feature’ (www.404media.co)
During all this monitoring, I wasn’t anywhere near the rider. I didn’t even need to see them with my own eyes. Instead, I was sitting inside an apartment, following their movements through a feature on a Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) website, which runs the New York City subway system.
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Meeting new roommates for college and I suggested Signal and this was someone's response. I hate Gen Z. (lemm.ee)
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Demanding selfie to unsibscribe (lemm.ee)
Hello nice people,...
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Thoughts on Lokinet? (lemmy.ml)
I was looking for something different from Tor and not like I2P. Someone give a look on Lokinet? What’s your thoughts?...
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FUCK TICKETMASTER (Rant)
I FUCKING HATE THIS SERVICE. Assholes don’t let you delete your account and ask you to go to their privacy policy page and read through 500 pages of text to find the instructions on how to delete your account, only for it to say you have to contact them to delete it, and when you contact them they never respond back other than...
Facebook is Corrupt Evil Spyware (simplifiedprivacy.com)
Not that you guys need the reminder, but your work sees all your browser history and you may not even be able to delete it if you wanted to (lemmy.ca)
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Telegram's "Privacy" is Bullshit (Video) (monero.town)
Many in the crypto and privacy community mistakenly trust Telegram because it’s “end to end encrypted”, but there are huge issues including not hiding the metadata, censorship, centralization, and phone numbers....
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Police Are Getting DNA Data From People Who Think They Opted Out (theintercept.com)
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