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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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How private am I? (self.privacy)

submitted 1 year ago by Rez to c/[email protected]

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I think we all draw a line between privacy and convenience and I think I found mine and settled into a comfort zone of sorts. I use Fedora 38. My browser is Mozilla Firefox with it's "strict" setting. uBlock origin and uMatrix. When I need/want to use a site that doesn't work due to blocked connections I relax the restrictions in uMatrix or temporarily disable it entirely if I get frustrated or I'm in a hurry. I watch videos on YouTube. Don't use social media, but I do use Facebook messenger (although I prefer to use Signal with the handful of people I can). I use a Xiaomi phone with custom ad blocking DNS (I'd like to get a Pixel with GrapheneOS someday). I look for an app on F-Droid first, but install it through Google Play if I can't find what I need there. I use Qwant and DuckDuckGo. I use ReVanced. I do not use a VPN. I think that's all the relevant information. My question is: how easy do you think it still is for big tech to track me? Are there any suggestions you would have for a person like me that wouldn't sacrifice too much convenience?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Florisboard.

Its default settings are not perfect, you can theme it OLED black which is nice, it has an internal clipboard with the action bar for "mark all" "copy" "crop" "paste" "delete last entry" "show history" and even cursors. Its brilliant for privacy as its internal clipboard cant be seen by apps if you disable "sync to system"

It doesnt have autocomplete and after a quick rise and development its very rarely developed anymore. But I dont miss anything, just autocomplete and maybe Sayboars Speech to text would be nice addons

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

And no, debloating doesnt cause overheating normally