Privacy Guides

I have tried a few private keyboards, but none of them had the possibility to have one layout (Qwerty) with two correction languages (English and French). Any suggestions?

Hello everyone,

As the title says, I need to use Google Classroom for a class I'm taking with my local school. I didn't get a choice in tooling unfortunately. I have in my private life cut google out, not having used Gmail in over a decade, using Youtube through invidious, OSM instead of Google Maps, etc.

I'm already planning on using either Firefox multiple account containers or a different dedicated browser for school stuff entirely. Is there any other advice you have to protect my privacy as much as possible?

I'm in the EU and I know Google is more limited in the data they can collect from educational uses, but obviously I don't trust Google.

By reading about the new inclementations on Google I decided to leave from Google services entirely, already stoping using Windows for 6 month and Chrome, but sttil dont sure about a gmail(Some important things are signed in gmail accont) and some services like Youtube and some android telemetry(already rooted)

there's osm, but that doesn't have the convenience of being able to just chuck in a place and have it tell me how to drive there, which I need if I'm at a red light and need to know how to get somewhere. ty :)

Raivo OTP is sold.

“Big News! 🚀 Exciting times ahead as we announce that Raivo has been acquired by Mobime (mobime.org)! 🎉🤝

Rest assured, nothing will change for you, except for more support and development on the Raivo ecosystem. More updates will follow soon.”

https://twitter.com/raivootp/status/1683372954002808833?s=46

There's a lot of scary ones here for people who like their rights and the way the internet works and has worked for a long time.

Some people should know but I still have to explain. WOT is a service that basically rates websites if they're safe or not to use and is basically supposed to be another layer of protection, however, I believe WOT is not the best service and I've seen people complaining about it. If you try to search for similar services you'll probably be left disappointed cause it's not something people talk about and it's kinda hard to find terms for that kinda service. Does anyone know similar websites to WOT but more trustable?

I was sold on Matrix as a viable alternative to Discord but recently read this article which made it look not so good.

I've been using Tutanota for a while now. Been interested in people's opinions about Tutanota and Protonmail.

I think everyone here should watch this...

I am im the market for a hardware key for MFA. I want to put it on my keyring and put it in my pocket so I always have it with me. I guess it should be quite sturdy for that (no easily broken off connectors, ...) I mainly want to use it as additional factor for my Bitwarden vault. Do you have any recommendations, experiences, stories? Yubikey seems to be by far the brand most recommended. Solo is nice bc open source hard/firmware, but I care more about reliability and usability than openness I think.

Thank you for your insights!

I’m a little intrigued, but it also seems way overhyped. The website is much too corporate-feeling and buzz-word-y for my taste. However, I’ll also admit I’m interested in any tool that touts end-to-end encryption and peer-to-peer tech. What do you all think about it?

I installed Bitwarden from F-Droid, but I happened to notice yesterday that Bitwarden was in my list of apps with updates available from Play Store, even though I installed it via F-Droid. Why would that be?

I know this is a better question for the Bitwarden forums, but I don't have enough street cred there to make a post.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1766078

Bromite's actively maintained fork is going to have its own branding starting from next release according to the latest release notes:

Please note: this is the last release, the next one will be in https://github.com/uazo/cromite

So, just got a notification about google's new enhanced safe browsing. It says: To help protect your account and data, Enhanced Safe Browsing for your account checks for risky: - URLs - Downloads - Browser extensions - System information - Small sample of pages

How it uses it:

• Uses information from Enhanced Safe Browsing to improve your security in Google Chrome and Gmail when you're signed in.
• Temporarily associates information from Enhanced Safe Browsing with your Google Account when you’re signed in to help protect you across Google apps.

It seems to me as if, whenever they come up with new changes, it's a double edged sword where they claim everything gets better and safer, while my paranoid mind just sees it as new tricks to get even more data...

Is Telegram really that bad and should i look more into it or is sticking to signal really the best option?

I set up Firefox for deleting cookies when the session is closed, as recommended by privacyguides and arkenfox. I add sites for which I want to keep the login to the exceptions. I noticed that, by doing so, I also allow the site for using cross-site cookies (see screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/mkQptyc). However, I would like to keep blocking cross-site cookies, I just need the site's cookies to keep the login. Am I doing something wrong? I'm afraid that I'm bypassing total cookie protection.

EDIT: apparently it's a known issue (https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/issues/1448 the "needs jesus" label is not reassuring) causing sanitizing exceptions to also allow third parties.

Unsurprisingly, some folks on raddle and reddit seem to have a big problem with lemmy. A lot of it is pure FUD.

However, this appears to be a valid security concern:

https://raddle.me/f/fediverse/166674/lemmy-is-so-much-like-email-it-even-brought-back-spy-tracker

Any thoughts on how fixable this is?

Of course the general consensus on reddit is "lemmy devs are clueless and dangerous". I'm pretty sure a lot of it is one guy with multiple alt accounts, tho. He has a Joe McCarthy attitude about lemmy because of one of the primary devs.

I'd like to be able to keep up with an older parent (completely with their consent), but do not want it to be two way as so many such apps seem to be. Does anyone have a recommendation?

@privacyguides
Can we include some of these software in an appropriate category?

https://photog.social/@averseterse/110666219053003032

@privacyguides

https://photog.social/@averseterse/110666219053003032

A lot of privacy guides suggest avoiding Telegram. I understand that in its default mode there's no E2EE (and no E2EE for groups at all). If people I know don't wanttko use Signal, isn't Telegram the lesser evil given it's nicer privacy policy (than other popular ones)?

Say I use the FOSS version of it.

Some requests seem to take ~1300ms (google) or 700ms(cloudflare). and some are just 4ms.

+non filtering, I run my own pihole.

would cs-india good?