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Why do you use Crowdin (proprietary, bad for privacy) instead of Weblate (libre, privacy-friendly)...

Just because software is open source does not mean someone is actually looking at the code. But depending on the software there are incentives to do so. Some people might be technologically interested on the way a software does something and look at the source code for that. Some people might want to check the benignity for...

You might have old accounts especially cloud accounts that are just idling abandoned while still holding personal information. They might have old weak passwords just waiting to get compromised. Same goes for old email addresses that you do not use anymore but are still linked to other accounts. This is a reminder to check...

I vaguely remember reading something about leaking your private network setup if you used Let's Encrypt to generate your certificates....

Kickstarting this community; let's discuss our favorite apps on Android & iOS.

I saw a post on r/privacy from the founder, and it caught my attention. What do you guys think of it?

I've seen the post saying that the lead developer is stepping down, I've seen his accusations of abuse. I've seen enormous write-ups which make questionable claims about how he's the devil himself. I've seen a lot of rumour and hearsay, and now I've got no idea what to think....

For a while now I've been quite happy running LibreWolf, with Bitwarden and some other privacy extensions. I've also switched over from Google to Kagi as a search engine; doesn't keep me anonymous, but I do love not being the product for once.

From Lemmy documentation:...

It's June 2022. Multiple news sites report Firefox now has Total Cookie Protection, which automatically blocks third party tracking cookies, and it's enabled by default....

cross-posted from: https://feddit.de/post/721048...

Links to a hopefully growing list of lemmy clients....

With Reddit's encroaching IPO and their poorly planned API changes, we need a place to keep up with privacy topics that isn't tied to an anti-privacy, centralized sinking ship site....

cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/411763...

Hi all!...

I browse in permanent private mode, so I've been using Mull with uBlock Origin for quite some time now and really liked it. It even blocked cookie consent dialogs....

Recently a story published Financial Times revealed that India is installing spyware tools sourced from Israel at the level of subsea cable stations. Considering that all data to and from the country flows through them, I just wanted to know what are possible ways to prevent or reduce snooping in such cases? Are VPNs a good...

I'm looking for alternatives to the Office suite (including OneDrive), and was curious what you all are using. I'm generally looking to get away from it due to privacy issues with Microsoft. OneDrive is really the biggest issue for me, as I really like the way it integrates with Windows. I'm sort of in the process of switching...

I’ve been using mat2, which is the first recommended option on PrivacyGuides.com, to remove metadata. Is there any drawback to this compared to ExifTool, which is at the bottom of the page? mat2 relies on ExifTool, but only for removing metadata that isn’t a PDF, audio file, image, svg, or video. I usually use mat2 for...