When I announced I would be closing my communities earlier this year, a curious thing happened: a surprising number of regulars replied with some variation of “I think this is my exit.” While some were specifically talking about Matrix, claiming that mine was the only room they were really active in and therefore they saw no...
coveryourtracks.eff.org Wanted to share this awesome tool to test your browser, also please do share your results in the comments.
cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/21465918...
Hello, with the new AI features being added into Googles services I was thinking of maybe starting a thread about how to remove data from the affected services. I feel like simply deleting my photos from Google Photos most likely wouldn’t be enough of a measure to ensure my images does not get affected or used in these AI...
Visa is rolling out new technology that will allow the payments giant to share more information about customers’ preferences [non-paywalled source] based on their shopping history with retailers as it seeks to remain a top player in the competitive e-commerce space. From a report:...
I didn’t know my city was cool enough to put signal flyers.
It has finally happened…not surprised though.
It’s not quite enough for me, personally, but this is a small step in the right direction....
Firefox’s Enhanced Tracking Protection (Strict Mode) is known to cause issues on x.com...
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/15475769...
Why most services that want to protect user privacy. Also those on privacyguides, don’t have anonymous payment methods like cryptocurrencies? I pay for a few such services like email or cloud etc. but I don’t know if it makes sense if my bank knows I’m using it anyway so they can sell that info to advertisers, gov, etc. In...
Google’s AI model will potentially listen in on all your phone calls — or at least ones it suspects are coming from a fraudster....
cross-posted from: lemy.lol/post/25062075
I have my personal blog, made with Hugo and hosted on GitHub pages. Initially I did not turn on any kind of web tracking / web analytics, because I do not like tracking at all. But I want to make my blog better and to achieve it, I need a feedback loop about traffic. For example, what are the most popular publications, or how...
I discovered this recently, I think it’s a fork of Lineage? Some stuff they list is already part of Lineage but some seems extra...
I’ve just been clued into this and I’d like to know if anyone can give me an idea of the quality of the information contained therein. Thanks in advance–I hope you’re well today!
With the latest version of Firefox for U.S. desktop users, we’re introducing a new way to measure search activity broken down into high level categories. This measure is not linked with specific individuals and is further anonymized using a technology called OHTTP to ensure it can’t be connected with user IP addresses....
