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FrogLessEdit, in We're giving Lemmy a try: Welcome to !privacyguides@lemmy.one

This looks pretty good so far, and I’m glad to be here and pseudo-anonymous!

Absolute newbie here so bare with me: I’m seeing a couple features I’m used to from reddit that aren’t present. Where do we go to learn more about Lemmy? Is there anywhere to put feature requests? Mods available to be added? My old experience with stuff like this was back in the Invision Power Board and phpBB days.

I see threaded replies can’t get collapsed in this thread - that was useful for browsing. on reddit.

Also no downvoting of comments, just an upvote button?

xilliah, in Unclassified letter reveals NSA's warrantless purchase of Americans' internet browsing data

Now imagine a rapist taking over your country.

hellfire103, in Your Tablet's Light Sensor Can Spy On You
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Of course it can. Man, technology just keeps getting better and better! /s

philo, in AdGuard Temp Mail: new temporary email service launched

Interesting.

jqubed, in AdGuard Temp Mail: new temporary email service launched
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I found a service like this 8 or 10 years ago. That one also let you reply to emails from the temp address. You couldn’t send a new email to initiate a conversation but you could reply to one to continue a conversation. Unfortunately I didn’t save that link so don’t know what the service was now, so it’s good to know about this.

moreeni,

There are lots of services like that. Since you are on the PrivacyGuides community, here you go with the ones PG recommends: www.privacyguides.org/en/email/#email-aliasing-se

taladar, in Common misconceptions about privacy and security

Similarly, proprietary software can be secure despite being closed-source.

That depends entirely on your threat model and the kind of relationship you have with the software vendor. Software might be proprietary and closed source but e.g. you might be the only customer and did get to engage an auditor which could see the source code. Or it might be off-the-shelf software made in a country trying to spy on your company or country. In some of those cases it literally can not be secure for your threat model.

haui_lemmy, in This Week in Privacy #4 - Privacy Guides Blog

Thats insanely valuable info, neatly packaged.

fadhl3y, in UK proposes selfie-based, AI age verification system for porn sites

Classic - clearly some British politicians have shares in a facial AI company.

joyful_hyaena, in Does the "Redirector" add-on affect your browser fingerprint in any way?

I would also like to know. I’ve been using Mullvad browser pretty much since it came out and I’ve always wanted to add the Libreddirect extension but never dared because of fingerprinting. I remember reading a while ago that on chromium browsers, some scripts can detect the mere presence of extensions. I have no idea if that could happen in firefow-based browsers as well.

LemmyIsFantastic, in How Meta’s New Face Camera Heralds a New Age of Surveillance

More alarmist bill crap. Just going to make sure the public never wants to hear another privacy article again.

Metas glasses aren’t even particularly novel. They certainly ain’t the end of privacy.

JokeDeity, in How Meta’s New Face Camera Heralds a New Age of Surveillance

When the idiotic masses and paid influencers hop on board like they always do it will spur a bunch of companies to make similar and maybe one of them will be worth buying.

Showroom7561, in Tyranny of Microsoft

Microsoft will insert their left-leaning propaganda into the Windows start menu, innocently pretending it’s just trending news. Brainwashed Democrats don’t even realize that it’s normalizing an authoritarian society through unquestioned acceptance of government authority. In fact, Democrats are so shielded from criticism…

That political venom came out of nowhere! 😂😂😂

Thcdenton, in The Most Dangerous Canadian Internet Bill You’ve Never Heard Of Is a Step Closer to Becoming Law - Michael Geist
tesseract, in Google Resuming the transition to Manifest V3 - Chrome for Developers

Google has also started delaying the approval of revisions of privacy-related addons. This is an all out war against user privacy. Everyone, please stop using or promoting this Trojan malware called chrome or anything based on it.

ericjmorey,
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Most people aren’t going to know or care, but getting the word out that Firefox allows better, more useful extensions due to recent changes by Alphabet will make a difference.

tesseract,

It’s true that most people won’t know or care. But the only ones who can make a difference are the ones who understand the situation. We shouldn’t assume that nobody will listen to us. If we tell a hundred people, perhaps 5 will listen - and even that’s a pessimistic assumption. Even such small changes add up in the long run. The last nail on the coffin of our freedom will be the silence of those with the wisdom to recognize its erosion.

ericjmorey,
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People will definitely listen if the experience is better because of the extensions.

ademir, in This Week in Privacy (#2)
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Glad to see you back!

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