Mozilla to protect Firefox users from bounce trackers - Stack Diary (stackdiary.com)
Telegram apparently censor queer groups (mastodon.social)
GrapheneOS latest release includes a preliminary defense to prevent app-based VPN implementations from leaking DNS requests on Android when the VPN is down/connecting (grapheneos.org)
Mullvad VPN’s blog post: DNS traffic can leak outside the VPN tunnel on Android...
This Tool Shows Some Telegram Users’ Approximate Physical Location (www.404media.co)
The tool relies on Telegram’s opt-in “Find People Nearby” feature, but allows searches for Telegram users globally.
Brexit Britain wants to be the snooping capital of the West (www.politico.eu)
Bitwarden has launched a new authenticator app (bitwarden.com)
Bitwarden Authenticator is a standalone app that is available for everyone, even non-Bitwarden customers....
Bitwarden Passkey support for ios released (github.com)
cross-posted from: feddit.de/post/11733855...
DNS traffic can leak outside the VPN tunnel on Android (mullvad.net)
Stealing your Telegram account in 10 seconds flat (lyra.horse)
Apple's 'incredibly private' Safari not so private in Europe (www.theregister.com)
Major privacy question (linux distro)
Hey guys, first post here and on an alt, I hope I don’t get flamed. If there’s not enough info I’ll post another thread tomorrow....
Interesting new data on Lemmy instance federation with Threads, ordered by Active Users descending. (veganism.social)
cross-posted from: !technology...
YouTube tests disabling videos for people using ad blockers (www.theverge.com)
PSA: Nova Launcher has been owned by analytics company Branch since 2022 (www.androidpolice.com)
Since a few folks seem unaware of this, I’m posting anew for visibility.
Add Mull (Mobile Browser) by jonaharagon · Pull Request #2460 · privacyguides/privacyguides.org (github.com)
Mull is a privacy oriented and deblobbed Android browser based on Firefox. Compared to Firefox, it offers much greater fingerprinting protection out of the box, and disables JavaScript Just-in-Time (JIT) compilation for enhanced security. It also removes all proprietary elements from Firefox, such as replacing Google Play...
Are there any privacy-friendly (including offline) AI detectors?
I can see far too many privacy issues with copy and pasting text into a website, and/or registering an account which will keep a history of the text checked....
Proton: "Introducing Dark Web Monitoring for credential leaks" (proton.me)
Expanding Materialious to other platforms
Hello, I’m the developer behind Materialious. Perhaps you came across my post a few weeks back regarding the launch of my Material design frontend for Invidious....
NSA ’just days from taking over the internet’ warns Edward Snowden (cointelegraph.com)
European police chiefs call for end-to-end encryption roll out to include public protection measures (www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk)
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EU tells Meta it can't paywall privacy (www.theregister.com)
The EU’s Data Protection Board (EDPB) has told large online platforms they should not offer users a binary choice between paying for a service and consenting to their personal data being used to provide targeted advertising....
Dutch government says it may stop using Facebook over privacy concerns (www.cnbc.com)
The Dutch government said Friday that it may be forced to stop using Facebook after a warning from the Netherlands’ privacy regulator about the Meta owned social media platform’s privacy risks....
Are you running a Tor Relay?
Hiya, so been on the lookout for different services that I could help host for others to benefit from. I think TOR is a great project, and I’d like to contribute. So been thinking about hosting a TOR relay lately, and wondering how people’s experience is with running one? Please correct me if I’m wrong - but as far as I...