Privacy

Actually pretty good video....

Has anyone ever done this by going to the website of a data broker and using their opt out form?...

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/51faa0ca-2b47-4eba-bc8c-d9edabba5ca9.png

I realise that this question is subject to local trends (and I'm in the US), but I encourage people in other countries to submit their methods!...

Alternative https://inv.tux.pizza/watch?v=pp-INfssWBo

Most people still haven't heard of Manifest V3, so if you are one of those not using Firefox, this is for you....

According to the complaint, the company contradicted its privacy promises. From 2020-2022, the company allegedly disclosed users’ personal information, including their health information, to numerous third-party advertising platforms via tracking technologies, known as pixels and application programming interfaces (APIs),...

https://hackers.town/@lori/112255132348604770

I saw this on infinity for Reddit earlier, I don't know if there's a workaround for this or not.

Unfortunately for now there are not usable for me....

Academics at the University of Pennsylvania analyzed a nationally representative sample of 100 non-federal acute care hospitals – essentially traditional hospitals with emergency departments – and their findings were that 96 percent of their websites transmitted user data to third parties....

Worth noting: the warning originally had a direct mention that the attack was from a surveilling government, but they removed that part after being asked.

I know the prevailing sentiment for a long time in the privacy community has been "DAE Youtube bad?" though I have always thought that it is kinda overblown. Besides, I am using Firefox which is supposed to isolate tabs so they can't speak to each other, so I felt a small amount safer using Youtube....

The purpose of this post is not to endorse the use of Reddit ( https://shields.tosdr.org/en_194.svg), but rather to inform users of a privacy-friendly approach in case they need to utilize the platform....

I feel like this may be a bit of a counterintuitive question considering Graphene's privacy features but, is there a way to remote erase or find my phone with GrapheneOS in the event the phone is lost?

Screenshots:...

Recently stumbled upon this note-taking app called SiYuan, but it honestly looks a bit too good to be true(?). Has anyone here used it or got any experience with it? Trying to replace Obsidian is a difficult task, and I've been through almost all note-taking apps there are out there, however this one looks fairly similar....

HeliBoard keyboard is an improved fork of the now-unmaintained OpenBoard keyboard. It does not require internet permission, allowing it to be used 100% offline....

Are comments no longer visible for anyone else using the youtube frontends? I can no longer see comments with either invidious, piped, or viewtube, and I've tried several instances of each. With invidious there's just nothing there below the video description. With viewtube I get an error message. And with piped I see...

I've noticed that ads are absolutely everywhere, and wanted to post this to disillusion some of the places we see ads but don't realize. It would be harder to make a list of places you don't see ads....