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31 votes
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I don't own a cellphone. Can this privacy-focused network change that?
19 votes -
What's worse than ads and AI? Ads in your AI, so Google is testing it.
30 votes -
Tips for increasing online privacy (without going insane)?
I've been researching internet privacy and fell down the rabbit hole of...well, internet privacy. I started with deleting Facebook/Instagram and switching to fire fox + plugins. I would like to...
I've been researching internet privacy and fell down the rabbit hole of...well, internet privacy. I started with deleting Facebook/Instagram and switching to fire fox + plugins. I would like to make more improvements but I really have no idea how, it started with deleting socials and next thing you know I'm looking at LineageOS and de-googling.
If anyone has any suggestions on where to go next while staying realistic/not going crazy, i would love to hear them. I am not really sure where to set my expectations, basically I would like to have more control of my data. The other day Google photos gave me a memory recap which kind of creeped me out! I am suddenly not fond of whatever is going on under the surface of Google photos that's making collages and trying to sell my photo books. Also g-board giving me a pop up in the text prediction row asking me to rate the app??? Ew.
I am a fan of self hosting and run a small NAS (open media vault) but this too quickly turns into the privacy spiral and leaves me thinking I should throw my phone into a river and live in the forest. Would love to hear your thoughts/advice/opinions!
54 votes -
The Strava problem: how the fitness app was used to locate the world’s most powerful people
20 votes -
Lawsuit: City cameras make it impossible to drive anywhere without being tracked | "Every passing car is captured," says 4th Amendment lawsuit against Norfolk, VA
52 votes -
Passwords have problems, but passkeys have more
35 votes -
Follow-up to an earlier topic I made about my hunt for a privacy-respecting notes app
after the comments in my previous topic, I proceeded to try Notesnook and Joplin after having issues with Nextcloud Notes (that I have already documented in my previous post) Notesnook ain't bad...
after the comments in my previous topic, I proceeded to try Notesnook and Joplin after having issues with Nextcloud Notes (that I have already documented in my previous post)
Notesnook ain't bad if it's your jam. I found it easy to use and quite nice U.I. the only dings against it (obviously subjective) is that it really isn't supportive of markdown in an easy way, you have to pay for it cause there's no self-hosting option and you have to pay for the ability to have more than 5 tags.
Joplin's only ding imo is just that it has no web browser interface, but beyond that, there's nothing else fuctionality-wise I can really count against it, the U.I. is rather dated but the functionality is so stable that I am more than willing to deal with a dated UI. and I can self-host using my nextcloud instance so that's a great plus in avoiding additional charge.
So I personally recommend Joplin if you don't care about a dated UI in order to avoid having to pay a subscription if you are willing to self-host.
In other news, by the time I finally imported all my Nextcloud notes to Joplin, the nextcloud Notes App had managed to wipe 60 of my notes empty. I love nextcloud and its let me do wonderful things but the notes app they have is incredibly buggy when combined with their android app and how they are trying to implement markdown support.
11 votes -
What Facebook has done to us
20 votes -
It's personal: How your information is being exposed through FOIA
14 votes -
Combating web tracking: analyzing web tracking technologies for user privacy
12 votes -
Hackers take control of robot vacuums in multiple US cities, yell racial slurs
37 votes -
Acoustic cameras, motion amplification, and reading someone’s pulse through a video call
10 votes -
PimEyes says Meta glasses integration could have ‘irreversible consequences’
23 votes -
Your chatbot transcripts may be a gold mine for AI companies
25 votes -
Paypal opted you into sharing data without your knowledge
90 votes -
Lies, damned lies, and Impact Hero (refoorest, allcolibri)
4 votes -
Telegram to disclose phones, IP addresses at authorities' requests
15 votes -
SS7: A mobile network operator protocol with scary vulnerabilities
29 votes -
While web browsers warm to AI services, holdouts remain including Vivaldi
21 votes -
Oracle's $115 million privacy settlement: What consumers should know
22 votes -
How CrowdStrike stopped everything. “The failures cascaded as dependent systems crashed, halting operations across multiple sectors."
17 votes -
In leak, Facebook partner brags about listening to your phone’s microphone to serve ads for stuff you mention
48 votes -
Google must destroy $5 billion worth of user data illegally collected in Incognito Mode
55 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 -
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 -
Proton is launching encrypted documents to take on Google Docs
42 votes -
The asymmetry of nudges
21 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 -
“Upload moderation” undermines end-to-endencryption: A statement from Meredith Whittaker, Signal president
28 votes -
Microsoft admits that maybe surveiling everything you do on your computer isn’t a brilliant idea
27 votes -
Introducing the Light Phone III
38 votes -
DeGoogling 2024: Replacing Photos, Gmail, and Search
86 votes -
DuckDuckGo AI Chat: anonymous access to popular AI chatbots
46 votes -
The leak of an internal Google database reveals thousands of potential privacy and security issues reported by employees
21 votes -
'I was misidentified as shoplifter by facial recognition tech'
59 votes -
Mozilla is adding vertical tabs, profile management, and local AI to Firefox
78 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 -
‘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 -
The not-so-silent type. Vulnerabilities across keyboard apps reveal keystrokes to network eavesdroppers.
9 votes -
FYI: This site claims to have harvested 4B+ Discord chats, today all yours for a price
41 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 -
ProtonMail on all the data that Outlook collects about your email
61 votes -
From its start, Gmail conditioned us to trade privacy for free services
32 votes