privacyguides

I know they’ve been around since the GDPR came into effect, but I’ve suddenly noticed a sharp increase in the cookie prompts on web pages which have a second “legitimate interest” page. Some of these have an “object all” button, but plenty require you to manually opt-out of sometimes hundreds of ad-trackers....

I have a device that reached end-of-life support and I’m burned out loading ROMs to extend it’s support. Upon from my return from the trip I plan on purchasing a new device anyway, so buying one while traveling is also an option....

Looking to set up a basic static website. What domain registrar should I go with? Would prefer something that has more privacy obviously. Any recommendations on hosting services (cannot host on own hardware right now)?...

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/6214098...

If I sign up using phony info and use a new email which is only for fb, always use a vpn and a browser (chromium) that I only use for fb can I be anonymous? I ask because there a couple groups that I’d like to join that only use fb. Thanks.

I despise this dogshit application and fail to understand why so many universities use it. I refused to sign up for the longest time not like it would let me anyways for some reason but it is becoming harder as certain university stuff are mandating it.

cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/5572424...

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?...

For example, ones that implement these guidelines? …github.io/…/linux-hardening.html...

What would i lose or gain?

Tried to use OSMAnd last week to navigate around on vacation. For some reason it seems to be incapable of searching for house numbers, which is an instant dealbreaker. I’m very confused as to how or why this is a thing on such a mature product....

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

cross-posted from: lemdro.id/post/1181564...

Compared to regular SIM cards....

Since Bibliogram is dead, has any new project popped up?...

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...

As we all know, Ravio has been removed from the recommended multi-factor authentication apps for iOS on PrivacyGuides....

I’m currently using 1Password but I’m no longer satisfied with it.

I installed Bitwarden from F-Droid, but I happened to notice yesterday that Bitwarden was in my list of apps with updates available from Play Store, even though I installed it via F-Droid. Why would that be?...

Unsurprisingly, some folks on raddle and reddit seem to have a big problem with lemmy. A lot of it is pure FUD....

Is Nautilus data privacy friendly ? If not, what file manager would you recommend on Ubuntu for data privacy respect ?

By default most people run Wireguard on port 51822. This of course shows that you are running a VPN. Is it better to run on another port, for example 443? But I heard that some ISPs frown on that....

Are there any good VPS providers you would recommend that don’t require to much data and where you can pay with privacy friendly payment methods like monero?...

I wanted give a try to kbin.social but not sure how private is the instance, the interface looks really nice but im worried about its privacy and how private is compared with Lemmy?