privacy

coveryourtracks.eff.org Wanted to share this awesome tool to test your browser, also please do share your results in the comments.

As the title says! My choice, for now, is Leta, directly from Mullvad. I really like because there are no ads by deafult, which is particular important since those ads usually lead to malware....

I’m not sure which community on here this would be best fit in without the risk of it being removed by a moderator for some reason, but I started getting the following popup when trying to watch videos on YouTube as of yesterday while becoming a little bit worried my Youtube Account might get blocked permanently from watching...

cross-posted from: discuss.tchncs.de/post/5091456...

Nothing profound here, just need to vent: I haven’t used Facebook for several years now, but I just got my 10 year old son a Meta Quest 2 and had to activate it by linking to my Facebook account. Just two days later I got a warning that the account will be locked because they detected that a child was using the Quest with an...

This may sound a bit dumb, but eh....

There are lots of reasons to want to shut off your car’s data collection. The Mozilla Foundation has called modern cars “surveillance machines on wheels” and ranked them worse than any other product category last year, with all 25 car brands they reviewed failing to offer adequate privacy protections....

After the recent article about car privacy that Mozilla put out, I want to ensure my cars have no internet connection. Is there a good website to find any privacy issues for each car and how to disable them?...

What started you down the path to privacy? Was it a particular event, article, podcast or something else?

Hi Lemmy,...

Seems like discord is asking people to verify their accounts with phone numbers nowadays. I guess I won’t be using it anymore? :🤷

Google started out with a “don’t be evil” motto when it launched its first product, Google Search. Today, Google is a different company. It has created numerous products and abandoned a lot.

I’ve been on Mullvad for a while now, but I’m looking to move to ProtonVPN soon and I’m curious how well it blocks ads out of the box....

I’m using using a Revanced patched version of RIF is Fun to access Reddit. I have a VPN with ad blockers running. The app doesn’t have location permissions. I am getting ads for my city in it. The odd thing is that before the banning of 3rd party Reddit apps, I never got ads on RIF. I’m not only curious how they’re...

I love this idea. I dream of being able to do more than just lock all my devices in a bottom drawer, buried in towels.

Hi everyone!...