Wall Street Journal (paywalled) The digital payments company plans to build an ad sales business around the reams of data it generates from tracking the purchases as well as the broader spending behaviors of millions of consumers who use its services, which include the more socially-enabled Venmo app....
Cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/19987854...
Is it possible to blog in the AI era?...
Waterfox is a browser, obviously based on Firefox, but without default “junk” that Firefox comes with....
This is half a decade old news, but I only found this out myself after it accidentally came up in conversation at the DMV. The worker would not have informed me if it hadn’t come into conversation. Every DMV photo in the United States is being used for AI facial recognition, and nobody has talked about it for years. This is...
cross-posted from: slrpnk.net/post/9961019...
And when to buy xbt or xmr without kyc in EU when both localmonero and localbitcoin are closed?
Is their a platform or a way to know what a link does ?...
So with the recent Bing situation I wanted to take a second look on private search engines and sharing my conclusions of each search engine. Here is my list of private search engines:...
I am currently using Proton VPN (free tier) which is set to Always-ON and Block Connections on disable....
In an effort to increase my privacy, I decided to buy a Pixel phone second hand to use with GrapheneOS. Due to some miscommunications, the phone ended up being carrier locked with T-Mobile. GrapheneOS’s own website advises against buying carrier locked phones in order to avoid the hassle of carrier unlocking it....
Innovation and privacy go hand in hand here at Mozilla…...
In sharing this video here I’m preaching to the choir, but I do think it indirectly raised a valuable point which probably doesn’t get spoken about enough in privacy communities. That is, in choosing to use even a single product or service that is more privacy-respecting than the equivalent big tech alternative, you are...
I want a bulletproof way to give email sub-addresses, since some websites strip out special characters like + and .. I have an idea for how it could work, let’s say my email is TheTwelveYearOld@Reddit.com and I have the following:...
Danish banks have implemented significant restrictions on how Danish kroner (DKK) used outside Denmark can be repatriated back into Denmark....
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/15750986
Archive link: archive.ph/GJauG...
I’m looking for a tablet to last me at least 4-5 years doing -...
I want a bulletproof way to give email sub-addresses, since some websites strip out special characters like + and .. I have an idea for how it could work, let’s say my email is TheTwelveYearOld@Reddit.com and I have the following:...
screenshot of searching “test” in start page that doesn’t return any results...
As you may know, ChatGPT collects a lot of data on the users for the improvement of their AI, but this poses risks in its own way. I was wondering whether there are privacy alternatives to ChatGPT. Perhaps on F-Droid or Aurora/PlayStore, or for Linux....
