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Albinjose7345, (edited ) in Privacy Guide recommend software. Get them Cheaper (Black Friday)
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Is this an ad or promotion ?😨😱

Cyberjin,

Just good information to know

I guess you can called a promotion since its related to Black Friday. There are no affiliate links.

LWD, (edited ) in Privacy Guide recommend software. Get them Cheaper (Black Friday)

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  • Cyberjin,

    Depends how you use it really… Like Addy.io has like limited bandwidth, while simplelogin doesnt.

    wagoner,

    Don’t simple login have a free version also?

    paradox2011, (edited )

    Yes, and it is very feature complete. It’s what I use.

    The paid plans are largely just a way to support development, but specifically it allows you to use custom domains, not just automatically generated ones. There’s some other benefits like PGP and wildcard domains, but the custom domains seems like the biggest draw to a paid plan in my book.

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  • paradox2011, (edited )

    Don’t worry, you’re not breaking it to me 😄. I’ve never found the need for more than 10 aliases myself and I could be wrong but I think that needing more than 10 functioning aliases at a given time is a bit of a fringe case when it comes to the average user. It sounds like your comments are based on pretty heavy usage.

    I’m not saying that Simple Login is better than the other two services (which I’ve never used so can’t compare) However, from using the free tier of the service for years now the free version of Simple Login is feature complete and does not make you bump in to pay walls.

    capital, (edited ) in If you can create a Lemmy instance and federate, you can shovel data about every vote linked to an account

    I assumed as much seeing as it’s a public site ran by many different entities.

    Similarly, I think Google can read my gmails.

    urist,
    @urist@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

    In order to read gmails, you have to work at google.

    In order to read the upvotes on this post, all you have to do is spin up your own lemmy instance. Anyone with technical knowledge can do it. The problem is a bit different. I could do it, if I was motivated.

    If lemmy gets popular enough, there will be 3rd party sites with search bars and nice UIs and graphs to help you see how someone votes.

    Not sure what the solution is. Maybe if we can’t make votes private, they should be fully public.

    capital,

    I don’t understand the concern though. I always assumed my votes, comments, or even PMs here were readable by at least the admins of the instance I’m a member of. The fact that votes and comments are public doesn’t seem to matter from a security or privacy standpoint.

    urist,
    @urist@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

    There was an era of reddit where some nerds used addons to tag users for their own personal notes. Nothing wrong with making your own tags for people, imo.

    But I do remember there were extensions for “mass tagging”. You could install browser extensions to label people based on their post history. Someone would run a script, aggregate data, put little tags on people based on how they post. Like, maybe you would install a tagger to label people who don’t agree with you politically, based on someone’s aggregated data.

    I never personally liked the mass tagging stuff. It felt toxic to put people you don’t know in boxes. But, I never felt like it should be prevented. At the end of the day if you post something publicly, you shouldn’t be surprised when people respond to that.

    But, some people here might not realize how public their vote history is. Not sure anyone wants weird graphs about how they vote. I upvote a lot of stuff, I’m sure a lot of people upvote stuff they don’t totally agree with. Maybe I’m imagining a problem where there isn’t one. I’ve just seen how weird people get when it’s easy to put people in boxes.

    capital, (edited )

    Oh yeah I used both of those.

    Reddit enhancement suite would do manual, single user tagging and the Masstagger browser add on would do… well, mass tagging.

    I used it to show me when people I interacted with made more than 50 posts/comments in places like r/conservative or r/thedonald. It would also link you to the comments so you could see what they were saying there.

    I found it helpful because there were times when I found people undermining concepts like cultural pluralism and participated in those subs. I knew where they were coming from and what they were trying to convince readers of (nothing good).

    Several times it helped me effectively argue against white supremacists.

    As long as comments are public, which I think is the point of sites like Reddit, lemmy, and kbin, those types of plugins and info will be available.

    PoisonedPrisonPanda, in If you can create a Lemmy instance and federate, you can shovel data about every vote linked to an account

    Makes me think…

    Is there a plugin for like firefox, available which tracks what you write? Something which analyzes your output stream, or lets say, fetch all lemmy posts of a user and analyze how “easy” the writing patterns are and how easily the user is traceable via shadow linking multiple accounts etc.

    I know in order to compare this data privacy violations are necessary, but I am genuinely interested in how ad companies are tracking myself and how easy I am to follow through patterns in my texts.

    andrew_bidlaw,
    @andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works avatar

    As far as I know, LLMs are not that clever yet, and it would require a lot of work to automate tracking of so many targets. But a dedicated person tracking one user can see these. Unknowingly, we leave a lot of cues to know who we are. Not only patterns, but exact word-markers, like calling something by a regional-accepted name. Like how my english teachers insisted London’s metro is called Tube.

    PoisonedPrisonPanda,

    Yeah I am not interested in criminal behaviour or personal threats. i know a human would be capable to extract much information if on purpose.

    I am more interested in like temperature mapping of my text. From a statistical point of view If my patterns are behavioral and forecastable?

    andrew_bidlaw, (edited )
    @andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works avatar

    It’s mainly keywords at that point. This process is sure to have steps. To step into a suspected category, to be elevated into those who are to be studied closer, you should ring some alerts.

    privacybro, in Signal details costs of keeping its private messaging service alive | TechCrunch

    another reason why centralization sucks and distributed/decentralized messengers should rise to the top over time.

    HootinNHollerin, (edited ) in Signal details costs of keeping its private messaging service alive | TechCrunch
    @HootinNHollerin@sh.itjust.works avatar

    I’ve been donating at $5/ month for a couple years to help keep it going but I feel I can do that down a bit

    gilbert31, in Signal details costs of keeping its private messaging service alive | TechCrunch

    It’s a very interesting read, this is the second year in a row that I donate to the project. I encourage you to do it as well.

    Extrasvhx9he, (edited ) in Where to store OTP tokens

    Honestly a big debate, so it really depends on your threat model. Lots of people even keep their totp seeds within their password manager which basically defeats 2fa imo, but it’s highly convenient. Personally I keep my totp seeds seperated in a sandboxed user profile.

    MangoPenguin, (edited )
    @MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

    It only defeats 2FA from a standpoint of someone gaining access your PW manager. But for everything else like a service getting hacked and leaking your passwords for it, the 2FA will still do its job fine.

    lemann,

    I store my totp seeds in a separate, rarely used password manager, which then follows me on an “emergency USB” - hopefully something I won’t need to use at all

    netchami, in What is the good alternative right now to Google translate?
    InfiniWheel,

    There’s also mozilla.github.io/translate which is Firefox Translate but as a website like Google Translate

    netchami,

    That’s cool, thanks!

    Amazed, in Privacy Guide recommend software. Get them Cheaper (Black Friday)

    I only see 33% off bf deals on Proton’s website. Am I missing something?

    Cyberjin,

    protonvpn.com/blackfridayIs the “VPN Plus” deals

    proton.me/mail/black-fridayThe big package is 33%

    Amazed,

    I see, thanks. Just a bit confusing on the wording.

    Only one Proton product is steeply discounted in tiers: the VPN. For 2.5 years it’s 60% off, 1.5 years 52%, and one month is 10%.

    Everything else is 33% off for 1 year.

    Noel, in What do you use for cloud storage and why?

    Mega.

    Free.

    50 gb. Signed up years ago.

    end-to-end encrypted, client side. they claim they don’t have my decryption key. But don’t ask me why/how tho, since i’m not Bruce Schneier.

    Nice, various, and widespread 3rd-party clients especially for Android.

    Good user base. No one share sugarsync, or box.com

    Reslient service, i hope. I remember i once have Copy.com account, but they closed. RIP Zippyshare, etc

    InfiniWheel,

    Seconded. Still got my free 50GB Mega from years ago. I’m assuming they will reduce it someday but I shall use it at its fullest til that day comes.

    Their clients are also source available, but I don’t think many outside people check them anyway.

    rikudou, in If you work remotely, your bosses are probably using software to track you. Here's how they'll catch you slacking off.
    @rikudou@lemmings.world avatar

    What dystopia do you guys live in? I’ve worked for some small companies and some corporates and neither did this shit, that really wouldn’t fly here.

    Arigion,

    It’s illegal in the EU, so probably not there.

    rikudou,
    @rikudou@lemmings.world avatar

    That might be it. The more I learn the happier I am I live in EU.

    ikiru, in What is the good alternative right now to Google translate?

    I use Translate You on Graphene. Works great!

    netchami,

    Graphene gang

    apis, in Perfectly legal for cars to harvest your texts, call logs

    Bit behind the times here, but how are cars even accessing this information, unless the phone is built into the car system, and the user has an cellular/data/wi-fi account with the car manufacturer?

    Spyder, (edited )

    Maybe when the car is serviced? After you Bluetooth connect to have hands free calling and music

    neinhorn,

    All modern cars have cellular connectivity. The manufacturer pays the monthly fee. Since most cara have gps built in, they always know where you are.

    When you connect your phone to the car via bluetooth or usb your phone will trust the car and hand over the data. Want to see that message on the car screen? Well the car manufacturer now has a copy of it. In real time.

    apis,

    “When you connect your phone to the car via bluetooth or usb your phone will trust the car and hand over the data.”

    USB charging I can understand, but seems odd that phones do not block data transfers (besides that needed to manage charging) unless the user explicitly permits it.

    I guess people use Bluetooth to connect to car speakers, but again, why are the phones being so permissive with what they send?

    GnomeComedy, in US lawmakers introduce surveillance reforms intended to curb FBI spying

    “A decade”?! Try 2

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