I have seen many people in this community either talking about switching to Brave, or people who are actively using Brave. I would like to remind people that Brave browser (and by extension their search engine) is not privacy-centric whatsoever....
I installed NetGuard about a month ago and blocked all internet to apps, unless they're on a whitelist. No notifications from this particular system app (that can't be disabled) until recently when it started making internet connection requests to google servers. Does anyone know when this became a thing?...
Idk if this is the right instance for this, but how fucking tired of these forced ads at gas pumps is everyone else?...
At this point, I'm not even going to bother trying to go on there anymore.
I don't think people on this sub use it, but it's great news for us. The worse it gets the likelier people move on.
Here's what he said in a post on his telegram channel:...
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Firefox’s Enhanced Tracking Protection (Strict Mode) is known to cause issues on x.com...
VideoLAN...
I created a google takeout and in that zip file I found some files containing a ton of data about me. It has logged every single page I visited while using the google search engine and chrome browser. It even logged every single time I opened an app on my old android phone. It even has VOICE RECORDINGS of me and a log of every...
I have an extension that can individually disable all the most useless/addicting components of the Youtube site, such as shorts and whatnot. On the search page, I have turned on:...
"Protesters who wear masks could face arrest, up to a month in jail and a £1,000 fine under proposed measures that human rights campaigners claim are pandering to “culture war nonsense”....
I see a lot of people, including friends and family, sharing URLs rife with tracking parameters....
On the side bar it lists the following:...
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How to contact your MEP: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/portal/en/contact...
Things that make me angry about my current smartphone Samsung Galaxy S21Ultra on a Verizon plan is the mandatory software updates in which they install WITHOUT MY PERMISSION stupid apps like Netflix and addictive gambling games and stacking block games and Candy crush. God knows what else they install without my permission. I...
A set of smart vending machines at the University of Waterloo is expected to be removed from campus after students raised privacy concerns about their software....
