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relic4322

@ relic4322 @lemmy.ml

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  • After decades on Windows, so long and thanks for all the phish

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  • Funny enough I just changed my daily driver to Linux as well. Long time Linux power user, stuck with a Windows main. Finally made the transition, couldn't be happier.

    Congrats

  • Looking for an alternative to google wallet, when it’s the default option to download a German travel card.

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  • im not a proton shill, but they have a wallet. wouldnt any paid secure wallet option work? and yeah, i wouldnt trust google either

  • Fan of Flatpaks ...or Not?

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  • never tried flatpak, snaps were so bad as to never consider non-native installs or just use docker instances when I need to run something weird. so dunno.

    whats the use case for a flatpak exactly? maybe im not the target audience???

  • Online Fingerprinting Techniques, lets list them out.

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  • this was great! I hadnt considered leaked passwords. I already use uniques, but damn if this isnt a great reason to. Thanks

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  • Check this out, its a pretty good view into good practice, beginner, intermediate, and advanced, with recommendations. https://digital-defense.io/

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  • There is so so so much, and they do get caught, and when they do we keep a peek into how invasive they are. As someone who has had to worry about being targeted by intelligence agencies and nation-states, I was completely blindsided by corporate/capitalist surveillance.

    for example, look at this action by Meta, where they broke out of security sandboxes and exploited protocols in order to tie your browsing history (even private browsing) back to your identify saved in their databases back in meta land

    https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/03/meta_pauses_android_tracking_tech/

    the amount of data that is being harvested and sold, and resold, is absurd, and the greater threat is not just that they are exploiting you, its that they dont care who the data gets sold to. Bad actors (criminals, etc) can and will purchase information they can use against you.

    So, consider the unintentional ramifications of all that info being harvested and available in addition to the intentional ramifications of hyper greed, and couple that with the amount of available compute and you will see that you do not need to be a person of interest, everyone is a data point that can be and will be exploited.

    I would encourage everyone to take their privacy seriously.

  • The WIRED Guide to Protecting Yourself From Government Surveillance

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  • Just saw this. Feel like the alternate title could have been "When digital privacy went mainstream", "I was into privacy before it was cool", or finally "No I am not wearing a tin foil hat!"

  • Best privacy preserving measures

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  • hahah, nice. try and message me when you get a chance and ill share my notes.

  • 5-week degoogle challenge - join us! (It's free)

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  • Think im ahead of the curve on this one, but I applaud you! keep doing it.

  • Best privacy preserving measures

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  • or XMPP would work as well

  • Best privacy preserving measures

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  • There is a lot, and there are a lot of levels. I am working on this now as well. Escalating from where I was, its a learning process. Too much to type in a single comment/response.

    If you would like more info on removing your info from the internet, reducing the amount of spyware on your android phone, de-googling yourself, or limiting how much info you spill while you browse, we can connect and I can share what I have been doing. Ive got plenty I still need to do beyond this, but I am happy to share my lessons learned as it were.

  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
    relic4322 @lemmy.ml

    Degoogling - Getting your info from Google via Google Takeout

  • Announcing CoMaps! Navigate with Privacy - Discover more of your journey!

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  • you are not kidding, this one is driving me crazy. no pun intended.

  • Does anyone know of good single-use virtual credit cards. Specifically for online purchases like flights or hotels where you can limit the card to one time use or a max limit?

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  • the two I heard about are mysudo.com and privacy.com. I think both are US only. Are they both based in the US? It didnt say on the privacy.com about us page

    edit: yes, they are both based in the US.

    any non-US based options that offer services to the US?

  • Announcing CoMaps! Navigate with Privacy - Discover more of your journey!

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  • found it but was super limited. went into developer settings and enabled unknown sources but it didnt change the options. did some searches but cant find any way of really doing anything about it without rooting my phone. so meh.

  • Announcing CoMaps! Navigate with Privacy - Discover more of your journey!

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  • amazeballs, thanks!

  • Announcing CoMaps! Navigate with Privacy - Discover more of your journey!

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  • It didnt for me. I installed Comaps from fdroid the other day, and it didnt come up on androidauto. I guess I could try installing it from the app store and see.

  • Life360 Secretly Sells Users’ Geolocation Data to Third Parties, Class Action Claims

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  • I just got implemented it a yesterday. Let me check out pangolin. Im just running the traccar server instance in docker on an old laptop and connecting through tailscale at the moment. need to look into a FOSS vpn probably. WIP XD

  • Life360 Secretly Sells Users’ Geolocation Data to Third Parties, Class Action Claims

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  • FWIW, traccar seems to be a great alternative. Set it up today. Docker and app on the phone with tailscale. Works well. Can share docker compose file if there is interest.

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  • Will check it out, thanks!

  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
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    Use X without an account (if you really want to ig)

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    Life360 Secretly Sells Users’ Geolocation Data to Third Parties, Class Action Claims

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    relic4322 @lemmy.ml

    Online Fingerprinting Techniques, lets list them out.

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    Palantir's "Kill Chain" and the Dark Side of Artificial Intelligence

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    DNS Black-holing w/ DNS over TLS - Personal Privacy Part 1

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    Meta: Coming after your data harder than ever