overview for Scolding7300

I keep getting notified that I should upgrade my newpipe apk to a newer version through a url. F-Droid only has up to v0.25.2 but the latest is v0.26.1. It's been like that for >1w (the discrepancy), is this usual for F-Droid repos? Or something with my installation is wrong?

Privacy is Priceless, but Signal is Expensive by Scolding7300 in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago

They should post a average price per user so we'll know what's the minimum to donate (probably 5$ which is the minimum in the app IIRC)

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Any Lyft 3rd party apps out there? (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Lyft disabled scheduling rides through ride.lyft.com, I used that quite a bit but now in forced go use the app. The problem however, is that their app just doesn't work. It launches, says the Google API is necessary and then continues to close.

Does anyone know of an app that use their API that doesn't shut itself down without installing Google SDK?

Why does Nebula need to share my data with advertisers? by Scolding7300 in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 23 points 9 months ago

It says I can opt out, but why is it in there in the first place? I don't see any setting to opt out either, have to write them an email. How would I know if it got toggled on again?

Really odd for a paid service trying to get away from YouTube which gets its revenue through ads

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Why does Nebula need to share my data with advertisers? (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Advertising Partners. We may also share personal information with third parties who we partner with for advertising campaigns or that collect information about your activity on the Services for the purposes described in the "Interest-Based Advertising" section above.

It's a paid service, wtf is this BS

Their final reply:

I wanted to reach out as a followup to your earlier request. I spoke with some members of our product team, and it would actually appear as though we don't currently support users opting out of that particular clause in our terms of service. I also wanted to let you know that we don’t currently share user info with third parties for advertising, and as far as I can tell, we have no roadmapped plans for doing so in the future.

Hey Google, go fuck yourself entirely by Scolding7300 in c/crappydesign

[-] [email protected] 23 points 9 months ago

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/6089078

They explain how to make it work again with uBlock Origin

*Permanently Deleted* by Scolding7300 in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago

In my view it's either my ISP seeing everything or someone else. I don't trust my ISP, I route my traffic to a different country where I don't live in and them viewing my activity is potentially less of a problem, in my view (just in case they do manage to de-anonymize me)

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Can you buy your own data tosee what they have on you? (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I saw an article awhile ago that the police just straight up bought ad-network data about someone they were prosecuting without needing a warrant. Is there anyway to know what info ad networks have on me out there?

I know there are databrokers you can query to see what they have kn you, but those are all public records from I could find so far

*Permanently Deleted* by Scolding7300 in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago

Answer: Signal

I wish people would use Signal, but Telegram is the closest thing to a sane privacy policy I've got. There are a few that luckily agreed to use Signal.

Waiting on interoperability, see how that's implemented in Signal+WhatsApp (hopefully with Telegram to so I can ditch that).

Largest Farm to Grow Crops Under Solar Panels Proves To Be A Bumper Crop For Agrivoltaic Land Use by Scolding7300 in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 23 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Or abandon the min parking reqs so developers can build something else there. But also solar panels where we actually need parking space

Whatsapp has begun working on support for third party chats (Telegram/Signal) by Scolding7300 in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 42 points 10 months ago

If each chat connection gets a unique ID and zero info on my [pseudo]identity then that's great! Otherwise if this means they'll plug me into their social network to profile me that way - nah, thanks

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Do people automatically consent to the death voixe chat? (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I noticed quite a bit of people not knowing you can opt out of the dead voice chat recording (where it transmits your mic audio when you die for a couple of seconds).

When I installed the game there was a prompt that asked for an opt-in, that was pretty short to read.

Do you think people automatically click "I consent" or is the prompt not very clear?

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Aside from the lack of E2EE, why is Telegram not trustworthy? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.