thinks queer people are the ones who are confused
Not a native English speaker, so I might be completely wrong, but doesn’t the word ‘queer’ litteraly mean ‘confused’ / ‘weird’? Not that it makes a difference in this context, I’m just wondering
I imagine a kid who’s smart enough to use a vpn, downloading a bunch of videos, and then selling usb drives to their friends at school, or sharing them via gdrive
Yeah, we have this unwritten rule in my friend group to never send links to any videos no matter where they’re from. You download the video and send the file
For now
https://sh.itjust.works/post/9200442
Hasn’t changed much since
Is this service paid? If not, how are they making any money? All I can think of is a) selling users data (and lying) b) selling spots in search results, which means they’ll be overrun with malicious links or other useless garbage. I don’t believe they’re just hosting a search engine out of the kindness of their hearts (:
I also recently discovered mpv --no-video [url]. Useful for when I just want to listen to a podcast or something. Sadly, I can’t get it to work with Spotify
You could use the uMatrix extension to control not only cookies, but everything else (like scripts, css, images) by subdomain. Inb4 someone says it’s outdated. It works perfectly fine.
But isn’t randomization supposed to give you a different unique fingerprint each time? So yes, you would be unique and easily tracked but only until your fingerprint changes
It doesn’t need to be maintained if it still works on the latest update of the browser. Also, uBlock is not a full replacement, if there will be a full replacement that is maintained, I’ll gladly switch
XMPP sounds like a good idea, however, switching to Signal and convincing the 3 contacts I have there to switch as well wasn’t very easy and I don’t think I could pull it off again in the near future.
I hadn’t thought about the keyboard! I use SwiftKey (which I now realise is a terrible choice) from way back before I started caring about my privacy. Do you have any good recommendations? The main thing I need is the three word suggestions to have dictionaries for multiple languages. I use Firefox on mobile as well, with pretty much the same settings and uBlock. I’m not sure what you mean by having Google Play services enabled, as I did say I use the store. Is there a way to use it and have the services disabled? Won’t that mess with banking apps? Also not sure what you mean by android tracking blocklists, but I think my dns blocks ads and tracking. I also don’t get any ads in system apps like settings for example. Tbh, I am a little afraid of debloating as I tried that ages ago on a Sony M5 and after uninstalling the apps, my phone started running insanely hot and slow. I had to put it right next to the air conditioner to be able to use it, reinstalled all the apps and the problem went away :D
Afaik Google Play store and services are always installed as an admin app. I’m don’t think there is much we can do without custom roms
I sorry if I came off confusing, I’m not a native English speaker so putting my thoughts into English writing is a bit of a barrier for me. I guess I’m just looking for people to point out flaws in my setup and have a discussion on best practices while keeping the comfort factor in mind.
http://digdeeper.club/articles/addons.xhtml#umatrix Read the update from January 2022
As far as I understand, if you wanted to not be unique you would have to not use any special privacy tools. Use default Chrome installation and Windows 10/11. There will be millions of people using the exact same setup as you.
My goal is to reduce the information collected about me (increase my privacy) as much as possible and at the same time keep as much of my convenience as possible. I’m not sure how much of an effect this has, but I never used any of the Xiaomi bloatware apps, because when you first open any of them you have to agree to their terms & conditions and when I tap disagree the apps just close (even the calculator, for example). Piped sounds like an interesting thing I should look into, I keep seeing it being mentioned everywhere. But I would assume that if there is a way to login to my account to get all my subscriptions and recommendations the privacy aspect will still be heavily compromised.
By track I mean collect information about me, my browsing habits, my interests. By big tech I really mean any company, but mostly the FANG ones. Could you provide some good resources on how to do these public searches? I assume you don’t just mean to look up my full name on Google.
How about you stop assuming everyone on the internet lives in the USA?