The WIRED Guide to Protecting Yourself From Government Surveillance by relic4322 in c/privacy@lemmy.ml
[-] relic4322@lemmy.ml 1 points 18 hours ago

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 by relic4322 in c/privacy@lemmy.ml
[-] relic4322@lemmy.ml 1 points 18 hours ago

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) by relic4322 in c/privacy@lemmy.ml
[-] relic4322@lemmy.ml 1 points 18 hours ago

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

Best privacy preserving measures by relic4322 in c/privacy@lemmy.ml
[-] relic4322@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

or XMPP would work as well

Best privacy preserving measures by relic4322 in c/privacy@lemmy.ml
[-] relic4322@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago

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.

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Degoogling - Getting your info from Google via Google Takeout (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 day ago by relic4322@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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I did a search for posts on Google Takeout before posting this and the only one I saw was from a year ago so I guess its ok to post this.

I just learned about it this morning.

The TLDR; is that you can request all the info Google has on you, in my case I want to do something with that data as I move away from Google, but just seeing what they have is nuts.

You might want to consider doing so.

(i would link the url, but its long and ugly, just search for Google Takeout, you will find it)

Announcing CoMaps! Navigate with Privacy - Discover more of your journey! by relic4322 in c/privacy@lemmy.ml
[-] relic4322@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

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

UN report lists companies complicit in Israel’s ‘genocide’: Who are they? | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera (2025-07-01) by relic4322 in c/palestine@lemmy.ml
[-] relic4322@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago

Im working on de-googling as well, from a privacy perspective. I am also looking at Proton for email. for

trying to think of the others, lol but im tired.

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? by relic4322 in c/privacy@lemmy.ml
[-] relic4322@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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! by relic4322 in c/privacy@lemmy.ml
[-] relic4322@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 days ago

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! by relic4322 in c/privacy@lemmy.ml
[-] relic4322@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago

amazeballs, thanks!

Announcing CoMaps! Navigate with Privacy - Discover more of your journey! by relic4322 in c/privacy@lemmy.ml
[-] relic4322@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 days ago

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.

Use X without an account (if you really want to ig) by relic4322 in c/privacy@lemmy.ml
[-] relic4322@lemmy.ml 7 points 4 days ago

I don't use it. But sometimes you may find a need to read or search for something that is only on there.

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Use X without an account (if you really want to ig) (lemmy.ml)
submitted 5 days ago by relic4322@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
13 comments fedilink

https://xcancel.com/

just saw this 2 hours ago from Sam Bent

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Life360 Secretly Sells Users’ Geolocation Data to Third Parties, Class Action Claims (lemmy.ml)
submitted 6 days ago by relic4322@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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This is a bit dated, but the case it not yet resolved. If you search it its still pending and in mediation. Life360 is looking to limit who it sells the info to in order to resolve the case. There is no debate that they were selling the info.

https://www.classaction.org/news/life360-secretly-sells-users-geolocation-data-to-third-parties-class-action-claims

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Online Fingerprinting Techniques, lets list them out. (lemmy.ml)
submitted 6 days ago by relic4322@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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So there are lots of ways to figure out who people are, and I am sure I dont know all of them, but I bet I know some you dont.

Lets put together a list of known ones. Ill start.

(If we dont get a big list, which we may not, for bonus points add techniques to ease drop/intercept information)

fingerprinting techniques

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Palantir's "Kill Chain" and the Dark Side of Artificial Intelligence (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 week ago by relic4322@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
0 comments fedilink

Food for thought.

https://youtu.be/dpE3feBwHCM

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DNS Black-holing w/ DNS over TLS - Personal Privacy Part 1 (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 week ago by relic4322@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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So DNS Black-holing is not new obviously, and what stands out as the go to solution? Pihole probably... and yeah thats what im using because hey its a popular choice. Though I am running it in docker. Combining that with Unbound (also in docker), and configuring outbound DNS to use DNS over TLS, with a few additional minor tweaks, but otherwise mostly standard configuration on both.

Wondering what you guys might be using, and if you are using Pihole and/or Unbound if you have any tips on configuration.

Happy to share my config if there is interest.

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Meta: Coming after your data harder than ever (lemmy.ml)
submitted 2 weeks ago by relic4322@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
42 comments fedilink

At this point it not about passive collection, corporations are going to extreme ends to get our data.

https://www.zeropartydata.es/p/localhost-tracking-explained-it-could

I am interested in what people are doing to enforce their privacy while using the web.

I have some things in place, looking to compare with the community.

(btw, I am new here, this is my first post. So uh… Hi )

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