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I wouldn’t use it.

Seems to me like free plan is what browsers natively support anyway. (Scam site blacklist. I highly suspect they use the same. They can’t compete with the one Google hosts and all major browsers integrate.)

And instead of paying 15 usd per month, Windows defender is a well funded, well established, well trusted solution.

There’s no practical gain in blockage before download. Windows defender scans upon and after download, before execution.


Firefox having an empty check box on Blocks cross-site trackers is a lie.

Docs Enhanced Tracking Protection in Firefox for desktop

Ignoring isolation is misleading - in this marketing context a plain lie.

They could have made a differentiation between all-blocked vs some-blocked, but empty indicates none are blocked, which is a lie.


A public forever storage of all transactions is not good but bad for privacy.

Send money to someone and they can see your wallet and all transactions.

Identifying wallet owners may require different levels of effort. But that’s kinda besides the point.


Their comment started with mentioning laws. That’s more than betting on only kindness.


Act now

I was expecting some suggestions to act or unite in opposition. The linked post has none of that though, despite its title. It’s a rant/criticism, not a call to action.


I assume this is about the hosted platform WordPress.com, not the software you and others can host and offer.


You can use RSS feeds to know about new videos, and any feed reader/manager like Feedbro to manage them.


You can export your reddit data. There’s no simple, existing way to replicate it on Lemmy though.

The export is machine readable, so scripting a loop that creates posts from it would be viable and reasonably doable.



That’s specifically what they don’t do. They collect statistics, not individuals.


Even the positive result in your first point I am skeptical of. Advertisements have a huge selection bias on what they show you. Even if it’s the topic you want, I’d be concerned about correctness, reasonability, viability. The highest bidder shows me ads, does that mean it’s the most expensive option? Most wasteful? Most manipulative into other spending or into vendor or thinking lock-in?


Note that I said 7-zip, not zip. Are you making that claim for 7-zip?


Do you have a source for the brute forcing? Because I’m interested. If it’s actually being done I doubt it’d go beyond predefined common password lists or exploiting non-secure passwording.


You can 7-zip it with a password. That’s pretty simple to do and use - you only need an archiving program that supports it and can send that file and share the password.



I’ve been using Posteo for years. I can recommend.


Freedom of expression is a protected right under both the Irish constitution and the European Convention on Human Rights.

So not at all what the post title claims?



Consent popup without symmetric disagree violating GDPR.

View our 164 partners

Ironic given the article topic.

I won’t be reading this article because of the gate.


Open the actual post and you will see various and numerous answers, including mine.

https://lemmy.world/post/8317669

Dunno why you @ me on my comment when I specifically talked about not using an app but the website.


Any working what?

I’m using the website of my instance. Lemmy instances typically have their own website you can use - which is exactly or slightly modified versions of the interface of the Lemmy project.

If you trust your instance with your account and its associated data surely you trust it’s website.


You could use the website in a webbrowser. Then you don’t have to be concerned about app and app provider.

It’s what I’m using. On mobile too.


How are they opposed?

Depending on how you define national security they aren’t.

You can default to privacy while allowing court ordered exceptions. That seems reasonable and effective, and seemingly has worked fine for along time.





That’s only one of two aspects.

If they share your data to show you ads and you block ads, they still processed and shared your data.


I’m not sure if you’re replying on topic or opening other entirely tangential topics.

Duty of the other party is a duty, not a guarantee. 2FA is a safety net against negligence and mistakes. It still makes sense.


You seem to have misread.

Even in your case (which is included if not implied in my description) you send out your password to what you want to log in to. Which was my point.


Yes

The secure password isn’t only in your securely encrypted password database. You transfer it into forms, then over network, then you don’t know what happens on the other parties side.

Having a separate factor where you verify you have the second factor (preferably a separate device, physically separate) is an important and significant elevation of security.

On anything you deem high importance it’s warranted. Elsewhere it’s weighing security and convenience.


Does textise support what Reader mode doesn’t? If reader mode can’t determine the central content, does textise have more logic to so so?

Given the wording I also want to point out a website doesn’t have to actively explicitly support reader mode. They only have to follow html website standards marking their content - a general accessibility approach too.


“they” don’t

There are a lot of different views on it between people and EU institutions and they’re having difficulties finding a compromise. After all this time and reduction of scope and severity, the one they have now still can’t proceed because of how far apart they all are in their opinions, assessments, and positions.

And now that they started questioning the driving person about their press-reported links to the big scanning software lobby orgs, with questionable results, even more people will become skeptical.


Is it a leak if it’s a necessary technical part to a functionality?

The main issue is that it’s not obvious to non-technical users. They can’t asses what sharing IP address means either though.

The reason Telegram leaks a user’s IP addresses during a call is that, by default, Telegram uses a peer-to-peer connection between callers “for better quality and reduced latency,” Telegram spokesperson Remi Vaughn told TechCrunch.

“The downside of this is that it necessitates that both sides know the IP address of the other (since it is a direct connection). Unlike on other messengers, calls from those who are not your contact list will be routed through Telegram’s servers to obscure that,” Vaughn said.

To avoid leaking your IP address, you have to go to Telegram’s Settings > Privacy and Security > Calls, and then select “Never” in the Peer-to-Peer menu, as shown below.

Telegram defaults to using p2p for calls, for contacts only.

It’s not a thorough privacy default, but otherwise seems fine to me. If you want p2p it needs to be enabled, and if you don’t it needs to be disabled. No-contacts and no-calls receive no IP.



Post a link to a channel of 1k users and 1k users send a request to the website, instead of only the server once?

/edit: From a privacy standpoint I’d really trust my chat server provider over random websites. So I definitely don’t see how it’s a terrible choice for these two reasons.

That being said, if you’re concerned, disabling previews is the answer.


Quality article, to the point. But this seems more fitting to a technical community than general privacy.


It’s unlikely to have any noticeable impact. This is more about verifiably and categorically not having any traces of logging or cached state.

Both caching and logging should be independent of the direct usage performance anyway. And service startup happens only once - not during its usage.



How so? You mean which encryption is being used? The Bluetooth demanded minimum is not enough?


Who is eligible for compensation?

… all UK consumers who bought goods or services from a business who advertised using search advertising services provided by Google. This is effectively everyone in the UK.

Consumers do not have to have seen these goods and services advertised on Google, or used Google to have purchased the goods or services. This is because the claim says that these inflated prices were paid by everyone if the business advertised on Google.

Consumers affected by the Google claim could be owed around £100 if the claim is won. They will not pay costs or fees to participate. The claim is being funded by global litigation funder Hereford Litigation.

An interesting case and claim. Indirect correlation.


Bluetooth data transmission is encrypted. Initialization typically happens only through the press of a physical button.

I assume you’re using wireless devices of the same manufacturer, that uses an alternative that is not Bluetooth, and has automatic pairing without a safeguard.

This is not about wireless primarily. Use a decent product and standard and you don’t have that issue.