Privacy

More and more, i see people wearing these 'smart' glasses as sunglasses which i find totally creepy and intrusive. Living in the EU, i am wondering how these glasses are even 'allowed' in public or may even be sold here. It becomes harder to avoid cause they become so hard to identify. How to deal with this? To what extend is this allowed? (cause apparently it is some way)

Sorry if this is not the high brow discussion this com is for.

The issue with Google's personalised search results is, imo:

I'm picking up a new Google Pixel and want to put GrapheneOS on it. Heard about Graphene since before their splits at CopperHead, but I havent had the chance the try the OS out. So I searched around and GrapheneOS allowed Google Play sandbox.

So Freetube got hit with 403 errors again. I tried to open a video in the embedded player and I keep getting hit with them demanding I log into to prove I am not a bot. Is anyone else getting hit with this?

One downside is that i'll have no more passkeys. The vault syncing, i can do via SyncThing.

I'm trying to migrate off gmail and apple services and ended up getting a domain and going to proton and using simplelogin for making aliases. But now I'm looking at proton pass, which comes free with my plan and lets me create aliases and wondering why I did that.

I have a normal Googled Android phone and tinkered with a bunch of settings so that only what I can't uninstall or disable remains on it.

So the UK is going to start requiring IDs to view adult content. I'm in the US, but I've got a friend in the UK who obviously doesn't want to deal with this.

What do y'all recommend?

I know that stock Android itself is spyware.

I have to use Zoom for a online class and I was wondering how I can make my Zoom experience more private? Is there a Zoom client that I can use like how there are privacy-focused Discord clients? What privacy tips would you recommend?

Analyzed by exodus, island the work profile app have 3 trackers detected

Duck.ai is one of the few online places to chat with AI privately. Self-hosting your own AI model is a better option, but not everybody has the hardware for it. DuckDuckGo has made deals with the model providers to keep your chats private, so it's an easy option to recommend.

Keystrokes? Screen recordings? Camera and microphone spying? Assuming an average person who's not actively targeted by an intelligence agency.

If I install the extension on VSCodium (Open Source Version), is this a privacy concern other than that it reads all my HTML files in the folder I have open?

Anyone have the experience registering a domain name with false personal information?

Considering the current intrusive cyber climate, what are the best ways to preserve privacy?

So I went to F-Droid to download TOR Browser and Orbot app and I found them currently missing from the F-Droid catalog. Did something happen that I'm currently out of the loop?

Is it safe to disable all permissions of system apps using shizuku and permission manager x ?

Do you guys have any recommendations for more privacy respecting YouTube frontend for iOS? YouTube Lite Plus has been good so far but I'm not sure how effective that no tracking thing is. I've also seen on Reddit Yattee and BluePlayer. Anything else? I can sideload it if it's not avaliable in the App Store. It would be nice if it also had features like SponsorBlock.

I’ve been trying to meet new friends and new people to hang out with so have been going to a lot of social events.

When you send a screenshot (even if height/width only is cropped) , the screenshot's width and height can be used to find the iPhone model of someone or narrowed down.

Just listened to Naomi Brockwell talk about how AI is basically the perfect surveillance tool now.

log into multiple google account in thunderbird

Is it a good enough solution for IMEI tracking to use an alternative device to provide a hotspot connection?

Should I enable WIFI scanning / Bluetooth scanning / Network Location under setting->location->location services?

We need 804 more signatures. https://www.change.org/p/proton-to-add-monero-payment-support?recruited_by_id=95fb2230-546c-11f0-89ad-6118a8d0681a

Just a heads up for those who are using GrapheneOS. If you log into 2 (google or other) accounts on an installed app even on different profile, the service provider will still be able to link between your 2 accounts using MediaDRM. (Google will still know that both of the 2 accounts have been logged in on the same device)

I got a new phone number last year. The last person who owned this number just left all her accounts tied to this number and one by one I've been reaching out to the places tied to it telling them they have the wrong number and to stop using this one. Simple enough.

I'm considering finally jumping off gmail. I'm not going to host my own email since I just don't have the skill to secure that thing well enough myself. Any mail server I set up would become a botnest within hours. So that has me looking at third party stuff.

I am trying to get away from Google and am looking for a decent cloud service that's integrated well into Linux, either by itself or by using rclone.

Could Windows and installed apps upload all my personal files?

Please see the cross-post as it is updated.

How can a site see what extensions you have?

What is the difference between Chameleon and JShelter? - Chameleon – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox Android (en-US) - Chameleon is a WebExtension port of the popular Firefox addon Random Agent Spoofer. - JShelter – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox Android (en-US) - JShelter is a browser extension to give back control over what your browser is doing. A JavaScript-enabled web page can access much of the browser's functionality, with little control over this process available to the user: malicious websites can uniquely identify you through fingerprinting and use other tactics for tracking your activity. JShelter aims to improve the privacy and security of your web browsing. - Like a firewall that controls network connections, JShelter controls the APIs provided by the browser, restricting the data that they gather and send out to websites. JShelter adds a safety layer that allows the user to choose if a certain action should be forbidden on a site, or if it should be allowed with restrictions, such as reducing the precision of geolocation to the city area. This layer can also aid as a countermeasure against attacks targeting the browser, operating system or hardware.

As a security-conscious user, I've used NoScript since Firefox's early days, but its restrictive nature has become frustrating. I'm often forced to go unprotected just to access websites with multiple scripts running on different domains, which defeats the purpose of using NoScript and balances security and usability that it once provided.

Both auto-forwarding and auto-reply are paid features, which makes cancelling & switching much more difficult. Gmail is a breeze comparatively. I highly recommend against using their addresses (e.g. protonmail.com, proton.me, pm.me)

What is the best degoogled tablet for an artist

Should I Disable WebSocket Connection on My Web Browser (in terms of privacy)?

Browser Timezone & Privacy Concerns

I’m curious about how DuckAI is able to stores chat conversations.

Why do we need to sign in zotero account to use WebDAV

GrapheneOS vs LineageOS vs iodéOS

Recently, I can't access any GitHub repositories without having to sign in. This is becoming frustrating.

According to a post online, Thunderbird email client makes connections to sites that have nothing to do with sending and receiving email, for "telemetry" and other questionable reasons

Looking for Privacy-Oriented Open-Source Android Browsers

Is there a privacy-focused accurate handwriting-to-text option for android? Ideally it would run locally on device with no required connection to the internet.