Chromium vs Brave
cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/5572424...
Inside ShadowDragon, The Tool That Lets ICE Monitor Pregnancy Tracking Sites and Fortnite Players (www.404media.co)
Google’s data trade, E2E encryption victory, rumors of ads in WhatsApp, and X’s risky verification (adguard.com)
TL;DR...
"Smart" car companies are an absolute PRIVACY NIGHTMARE | *privacy not included | Mozilla Foundation (foundation.mozilla.org)
By occupying or operating a Nissan vehicle you automatically agree to their dogshit ToS and privacy policy. You give Nissan the right to collect and sell the following data:...
The UK passes massive online safety bill (www.theverge.com)
How do yall go about meeting new people while still maintaining a decent level of privacy?
I am soon moving out for university and am going to meet a bunch of new folks. But I was wondering how do you go about approaching this with privacy in mind?...
Imagine making shadowy data brokers erase your personal info. Californians may soon live the dream (apnews.com)
Car Companies: Stop Your Huge Data Collection Programs (foundation.mozilla.org)
Nowadays, our cars are anything but a private space — they are full blown data collection nightmares on wheels....
Do any hardened Linux distributions exist?
For example, ones that implement these guidelines? …github.io/…/linux-hardening.html...
If i use a good vpn and adblocking do i need a pi-hole?
What would i lose or gain?
Redirect YouTube to Piped (lemmy.one)
I’m currently in the process of switching from YouTube to Piped and was getting fed up with rewriting YouTube links myself. I finally found an extension that can do this with a relatively easy setup:...
Google reading signal messages?
When I get a message in signal that that it has specific wording that would make someone think that it’s a task then I get a notification to save it to keep how is Google doing this are they reading my signal my messages
NextDNS vs Control D vs Adguard DNS, which one is the best?
cross-posted from: lemdro.id/post/1181564...
If you work remotely, your bosses are probably using software to track you. Here's how they'll catch you slacking off. (www.businessinsider.com)
What are the recommend changes to make iPhone more private? (tilvids.com)
cross-posted from: monero.town/post/462856...
Do eSIMs have any downsides from a privacy standpoint?
Compared to regular SIM cards....
Threads' New Terms and Conditions Affects the Fediverse (wedistribute.org)
Reflectacles to escape Facial Recognition (discuss.tchncs.de)
What do you guys think about this glasses to use daily to escape Facial Recognition? Worth the price? Does it really work?...
Any privacy respecting Instagram frontends?
Since Bibliogram is dead, has any new project popped up?...
Beeper Chat App (www.beeper.com)
Has anyone taken a good look at this from a privacy standpoint? I love this in concept, but not sure if it would be privacy conscience to share credentials for all of these different apps.
Cult of the Dead Cow unveils Veilid peer-to-peer project (www.theregister.com)
Loving that lead paragraph.
Mullvad VPN - Infrastructure audit completed by Radically Open Security (mullvad.net)
We invite you to read the final report of our third security audit, concluded in mid-June 2023, with many fixes deployed late June 2023. Further re-tests and a verification pass was performed during July....
Privacy minded cloud storage provider
I’m looking for a paid cloud storage provider (like google drive, but not google drive) which is privacy minded, so with features like e2e encryption. I’ve been using Jottacloud to backup my large collection of photos. Jottacloud has been satisfactory, but I’ve heard other users complain of incomplete backups, where...
Brave releases its own privacy-preserving image and video search (www.theverge.com)
“Brave Search users can now search for images and videos without being redirected to Google or Bing, though some advanced search capabilities are still absent.”
What 2FA app are you switching to? (iOS)
As we all know, Ravio has been removed from the recommended multi-factor authentication apps for iOS on PrivacyGuides....