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9 votes
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Tell San Mateo County: Stop for-profit tech companies denying mail to incarcerated people
23 votes -
Google Chrome warns uBlock Origin may soon be disabled
82 votes -
Google halts its four-plus-year plan to turn off tracking cookies by default in Chrome
36 votes -
[SOLVED] Looking for help getting my VPN to work with Firefox privacy settings
I recently moved to a new place with a new ISP, and my Mullvad VPN isn't playing nicely with Firefox like it used to. Can any of you networking gurus please help me troubleshoot? When the VPN is...
I recently moved to a new place with a new ISP, and my Mullvad VPN isn't playing nicely with Firefox like it used to. Can any of you networking gurus please help me troubleshoot?
When the VPN is enabled, most requests from the browser fail immediately. If I pull up the dev tools Network tab, I can see that these requests fail with an
NS_ERROR_FAILURE
message before any data is transferred.I have Firefox configured to use "strict" Enhanced Tracking Protection. When I reduce it to "standard" my requests go through.
I'm also trying to use DNS over HTTPS with a custom provider (Mullvad, via
https://dns.mullvad.net/dns-query
). I'm configuring this in Firefox, using the "Increased Protection" DoH setting. When I do that, Firefox reports the DoH status as "Status: Not active (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)". This happens even when Enhanced Tracking Protection is set to "standard" — in other words, that reduced setting fixed theNS_ERROR_FAILURE
for HTTP requests, but not for DoH.So how do I fix this so Strict Enhanced Tracking Protection, DNS over HTTPS, and Mullvad all work together? I never had this problem with my old ISP, so I suspect something's being blocked at the WAN level that I need to circumvent.
- OS: macOS Sonoma 14.5
- VPN protocol: WireGuard
- ISP: AT&T Fiber
I'm just using the official Mullvad client app with mostly default settings. The fiber gateway modem/router came with some default packet filtering firewall rules but I disabled everything in the admin panel. Weirdly, rebooting my machine fixed this temporarily, but the next time I disconnected/reconnected the VPN it broke again. Other browsers (with default settings and no DoH) are working fine when the VPN is connected.
Edit: Solved! Solution here.
6 votes -
Elon Musk says he’s moving SpaceX and X from California to Texas, blames new trans privacy law
28 votes -
"Privacy-Preserving" Attribution: Mozilla disappoints us yet again
68 votes -
AT&T says criminals stole phone records of ‘nearly all’ US customers in new data breach
26 votes -
Google Chrome ships a default, hidden extension that allows code on *.google.com access to private APIs, including your current CPU usage
69 votes -
Most reliable privacy-conscious notes app?
as the title indicates, I am in search of a reliable privacy-conscious notes app, I have tried the following which have the indicated bugs that I frequently experience and make the notes app feel...
as the title indicates, I am in search of a reliable privacy-conscious notes app, I have tried the following which have the indicated bugs that I frequently experience and make the notes app feel unreliable or just too inconvenient:
- NextCloud Notes:
- https://github.com/nextcloud/notes/issues/1187
- bug is that sometimes I have to rename a note 2-3 times in the browser for it to take
- bug where the pop-up menu doesn't go away after favoriting a note
- and the nextcloud android app has its own slew of issues
- StandardNotes app: I remember the app being really buggy on Firefox to the point where I had to regularly use Brave just for that app.
32 votes -
The asymmetry of nudges
21 votes -
Proton is launching encrypted documents to take on Google Docs
42 votes -
Working title (insurance)
5 votes -
US House GOP leaders vow to block online privacy bill over intraparty pushback
19 votes -
EU Council has withdrawn the vote on Chat Control
31 votes -
Twitter: 'Deep concern' at social media company partnering with Israeli verification firm
10 votes -
“Upload moderation” undermines end-to-endencryption: A statement from Meredith Whittaker, Signal president
28 votes -
Introducing the Light Phone III
38 votes -
Microsoft admits that maybe surveiling everything you do on your computer isn’t a brilliant idea
27 votes -
DuckDuckGo AI Chat: anonymous access to popular AI chatbots
46 votes -
DeGoogling 2024: Replacing Photos, Gmail, and Search
86 votes -
The leak of an internal Google database reveals thousands of potential privacy and security issues reported by employees
21 votes -
Mozilla is adding vertical tabs, profile management, and local AI to Firefox
78 votes -
'I was misidentified as shoplifter by facial recognition tech'
59 votes -
Privacy woes and autonomy, where do I go now?
I'm very sorry, but this is going to be rant. One that may seem to come up almost daily, but I still feel the need to vent. Every day I feel like I'm jumping through hoops to keep a little bit of...
I'm very sorry, but this is going to be rant. One that may seem to come up almost daily, but I still feel the need to vent.
Every day I feel like I'm jumping through hoops to keep a little bit of privacy and autonomy, without ever winning. DuckDuckGo is my search engine, use a paid mail provider, I try to stay away from anything Google and Meta, use only Signal, ad blocking everywhere, hosting most services locally, etc. It seems, however, to make no difference in the long run. The user-profile-building just seems to enter the home faster than I can mitigate it. Kids install some new app or new hardware ends up listening in, privacy infringement is there.
The reason I'm starting this post now is because I switched ISP and TV provider recently, but it has been on my mind for a long time. Finding one that isn't owned by one of huge 3 parent companies, is almost impossible here. After a year of deciding, I finally figured it was time to throw in the towel and just pick the least bad option. Yesterday was the day of switching and it has been such a frustrating process.
The provided router doesn't allow me to turn off its WLAN. I live in a city, so the airwaves are already crowded enough as it is. No need to keep that antenna on, but screw me, that's not possible. Opened up the device to just remove the card, but everything is soldered on the board and disconnecting the antennas didn't do shit.
It's possible to buy a modem/router myself, but it'll need to follow their requirements and will set me back $200. It would be okay if the rest of the service was great, but here comes the TV part!The device they use for TV is apparently Android TV. I assumed it would be IPTV with this subscription, but Android TV isn't that. Booting the device makes it immediately clear they are here to harvest data. It makes me so unhappy that a service I'm paying for, is also making money on the side by collecting data. To get a quick idea of what's being done, I routed the box through wireshark to sniff DNS traffic. It's riddled with domains used for data collection and ads. That combined with the features this box wants me to agree to (location, using the mic, access local network, sign into PlayStore, make a profile including real life information) does not make me trust this device. So I've decided to not play and will be sending it back.
People around me are pretty conscious about what they do online, but compared to them I'm highly paranoid. Wherever I look, there are privacy issues. It seems impossible to escape from. How are other people dealing with this?
UPDATE: I don't know if anybody is really interested, but I thought I would update anyway. I decided to listen to my gut and I cancelled the subscription. It feels like the best decision I've made in a long time. It's nice to feel like I'm still a little bit in charge, even though I know that's also just a false sense of autonomy. Suck it, Google! You're not the boss of me :-)
33 votes -
Many widely used reproductive health apps fail to protect highly sensitive data, study finds
33 votes -
‘TunnelVision’ attack leaves nearly all VPNs vulnerable to spying
40 votes -
ProtonMail discloses user data leading to arrest in Spain
41 votes -
Telegram creator on Elon Musk, resisting FBI attacks, and getting mugged in California
7 votes -
New products collect data from your brain. Where does it go?
4 votes -
Car tracking can enable domestic abuse. Turning it off is easier said than done.
15 votes -
How GM tricked millions of US drivers into being spied on (including me)
56 votes -
GM ends OnStar driver safety program after privacy complaints
38 votes -
HHS strengthens privacy of US reproductive health care data
10 votes -
The not-so-silent type. Vulnerabilities across keyboard apps reveal keystrokes to network eavesdroppers.
9 votes -
Intelligence community largely won House FISA fight. Now comes the US Senate.
27 votes -
FYI: This site claims to have harvested 4B+ Discord chats, today all yours for a price
41 votes -
ProtonMail on all the data that Outlook collects about your email
61 votes -
Sweden's public sector has ditched Big Tech in the name of privacy as a major telecom provider unveiled a new secure collaboration hub
14 votes -
Insurers use aerial photos to check out roofs or to spot yard debris and undeclared trampolines
32 votes -
Discord to start showing ads for gamers to boost revenue
62 votes -
From its start, Gmail conditioned us to trade privacy for free services
32 votes -
GM sued for sale of OnStar driving data
54 votes -
CEO of data privacy company Onerep.com (used by the Mozilla Monitor service), founded dozens of people-search firms
44 votes -
GM cuts ties with two data firms amid heated lawsuit over driver data
32 votes -
Want to automate my home with a privacy focus (but I'm a bit slow and need help)
Hey folks - I've been wanting to go whole hog on automating my home, I read through this smart home automation - tips and tricks thread started by @Merry and had a lot of useful information. Some...
Hey folks - I've been wanting to go whole hog on automating my home, I read through this smart home automation - tips and tricks thread started by @Merry and had a lot of useful information.
Some of the things I took away from it:
- Home assistant is pretty great (if you don't mind tinkering)
- Getting something that will boot back up after a power failure is great
- Use smart plugs / switches vs bulbs
- Maintain it's usefulness if there is an internet outage
Like I mentioned I'd really like for this to be privacy focused and mostly self contained. Sure I'd love to be able to control stuff from my phone while I'm home and also recognize that I'm home or away.
I just am a bit smooth brained when it comes to even seeing "would something like this work with the wiring / circuity that I have in my home already?"
If there are any good guides to follow or really specific advice / steps I could follow to begin this process I'd really appreciate it.
25 votes -
Time to delete your Glassdoor account and data
102 votes -
Tell US Congress: Stop the TikTok ban
32 votes -
How American evangelicals use digital surveillance to target the unconverted
35 votes -
Automakers are sharing consumers’ driving behavior with insurance companies
58 votes