privacy

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’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...

It claims to help make request to take down your info

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/5724757...

Since when is this a thing? I thought the indicator LED would be firmware controlled in the webcam (Logitech V-U0040)...

Today’s story is about Philips Hue by Signify. They will soon start forcing accounts on all users and upload user data to their cloud. For now, Signify says you’ll still be able to control your Hue lights locally as you’re currently used to, but we don’t know if this may change in the future. The privacy policy allows...

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?...

jshelter.org...

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/5234159...

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cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/5151367

Basically title. Looks like wire is now heavily being targeted towards corporates. In a corporate environment you don’t need too much privacy, so I was wondering…...

cross-posted from: ttrpg.network/post/980439...

github.com/sherlock-project/sherlockI just thought this tool was very useful for finding my accounts. let me know if you know any tools that you enjoy using for security.

Something I noticed on a few websites, including stackoverflow, is that they leave tracking settings up to a different website, which still lets that external party know what websites a user has been seeing, and this can be maliciously abused....

This is why you never trust closed source, for-profit companies with anything important.

Ah, the wind in your hair, the open road ahead, and not a care in the world… except all the trackers, cameras, microphones, and sensors capturing your every move. Ugh. Modern cars are a privacy nightmare.

The article is AdGuard centric but it sheds light on the whole process where Google suddenly decided to ban ad blockers.

First time website hoster here. I just need a simple, cheap website and I stumbled upon namecheap and their shared hosting/website builder....