You’re right that they are miles ahead of other companies regarding communication and opt-out. And indeed it’s rare that they will adhere to your choice when they implement new functions. For new users it’s good to know that they perhaps want to switch this data collection off. Maybe it’s a knee jerk reaction from my side: wanting to increase privacy and seeing this message brought up some worries. Especially because other companies started the same. Google also disguises stuff for better privacy or security, but in the end it’s just to prevent users from blocking their data analytics.
No it’s not that bad. They indeed are open about it. But it feels like baby steps in the wrong way. I don’t really have an opinion but I was just a bit disappointed about the path they’re going on. Because I don’t see the added value of knowing what users search for. So i was curious about opinions from more educated people.
You need to trust your provider. If you choose a bigger one, chances are you are a bit safer. Those kind of providers make big bucks on companies, so if they harm the trust of their customers they are out of business. You could try to choose software which implements E2EE and zero-trust to be safer, but those are not available on all software categories. VPS providers have access to all your stuff. So it’s all up to you which provider you trust. I would prefer a bigger name too some obscure little basement hoster.
If you’re already doing your own domain, why not use something like anonaddy? That can.be selfhosted as well.
It could be possible if all instances get the “delete”-message and adhere to it. Federated servers are not the best for privacy, but is any service that let’s you post to the general public? You don’t even need an account to view content on Lemmy or /kbin. And everybody can setup something malicious to federate everything and do an analysis or whatever on it. Furthermore you need to trust your instance owner, since that person knows the most about you (also your PM’s within the server, your IP, email, etc.). So you now need to trust a person instead of a company. But I think the fediverse is a nice alternative to all the corporate versions. And at the moment we are not the product. But someone will benefit from the openess of the fediverse.
I have two domain names. One goes to anonaddy and I use that for all non-important stuff. Maillinglists (for discount), orders on a sketchy site, signingup for social media.
The other ends up at protonmail and is for more serious stuff I don’t want to route via anonaddy (while I trust the developer and the service, I just want extra safety). I use aliases at protonmail as well to know where stuff comes from.
Deciding which domain to use depends on a couple of things:
- what happens if they access my mail. Is there a payment option connected, can they get into other services or request stuff from the government? If yes, chances are I go with the proton route.
- do I expect a lot of advertisement, selling of my data or security breaches? If yes, I go with the anonaddy route.
For amazon I use the anonaddy route. I do not add my creditcard or bank account to my account and if they do gain access, they will only get my email.
Hope this helps.
Never heard of Quiblr but I really like the look and feel of. Also great that you added a “For you page”. Any chance you can add kbin/mbin instances? Is Quiblr like a frontend which pulls data from other instances or is it an other fediverse piece of software? And are we able to selfhost Quiblr?