Trump to burn anyone / everyone to shill his self interests. His voting followers believe that his social and economic policies will save their lives and souls. The following will be pushed: Extreme capitalism works. Filter down economy works. The brown to black people are the problem. The women need to be kept under control. Anyone other than hetero male or female is evil. Social healthcare is communism. Socialism is communism.

Immediate harm to almost every American tourism based businesses plus whole towns and cities that rely upon tourists.

Great idea, we have some slight difference in frequencies but probably worth trying if the sim cards allow international roaming without breaking the bank.

Please can he start working in Europe too? We need to support his resilience.

The modified (Modi-fied?) offer of it now being optional is ridiculous. Keep protesting the policy my brothers and sisters.

I a desperate to self host, but do not know how to code. I use Debian, installing what I need for work, music, photo editing. All very low level, but accessible to me and far better than Windows. Keeping fingers crossed for something accessible between the full “black belt” level user and, well, me.

TWO groups of conversation from this:

1. Public cameras
2. People having their own cameras on their own homes

Public cameras recording our private lives recorded MUST be fully regulated and accountable. Private cameras slightly more tricky. I take the view that self hosting options are the best option. We need more devices that just work for the lay person. RING (and similar) should be considered a shit-show for privacy rights.

Just to point out that you made the initial argument and commented a view without evidence. Now you ask someone who disagrees to give evidence?

Sorry to hear this, what a nightmare.
If your old Gmail account lives, my thought is to carry on using that with auto forwarding to a fresh Tuta account and see how that goes, using the fresh Tuta and copying to old Gmail for redundancy / fallback. Thats what I did

Thank you. I can’t inform a response, but your question is very helpful for me with limited / low level ideas and poised to jump to GOS.

Entirely accidentally. My clinical colleague had an “odd looking” laptop screen. It was Ubuntu. He’s a genius level clever lad, and after some questions, he helped me to set up dual boot on my windows machine. Within 5-months, that was an Ubuntu only machine. Now on Debian, still can’t do anything much more than basic with the terminal, but the roads led here very naturally.

There’s a mom joke here somewhere, which of us is brave enough to retort as such to the OP?

Let’s Search has been a little sub par recently. I use Mullvad browser with DDG search engine, on devices running VPN.

I’m with you and not perfectly sure that Brave is the best, but I reserve it for my logged in accounts only. IronFox and Cromite both set to private with no history or logs, and used for single use opening of links from Lemmy etc. Trying to isolate / separate third party cookies and tracking as I can. I also use Rethink DNS as firewall and with three filters for whole android device.

I routinely use Cromite and IronFox (closest to LibreWolf for android). Have Brave for logging into accounts with some adjustment and For browser for checking flights or discounts etc.

He’s full of shit

Proton and Mullvad VPN appear to win the battle of the charts for privacy & security.

Only for my music,. Every CD I’ve ever purchased is ripped to flac. Photos are with Ente and docs are with Filen.

This is incredibly helpful to know - cheers mate

Tentatively wanting to press the buy button for a Fairphone 6. Currently using a Sony Xperia phone with headphone jack and 1Tb microSD card (it’s one of my backups), BUT on factory OS and still on a privacy learning journey. Considered the move to Pixel with Graphene, but have always had my lifetime collection of FLAC music locally. Phone = music player. Can live without headphone jack since discovering USB adaptor DAC / amps.

It’s certainly an option. My personal approach is with RethinkDNS, with the Wireguard functionality switched on (using my Mullvad VPN within Wireguard) and using local / On Device blocklists from the Rethink selection box. Not too challenging to set up and pretty much set and forget. I like the PiHole options, but never have got around to it.

Right now, for the wider population, it it a heaven sent option compared to Whatsapp, FB messenger etc. Break those bonds first and keep the wheel turning.

Chants of “aye aye… AI” resound

Ah, thank you. I’ve been a twit and not realised.

There are different levels to the approach. I went through each class of ermissions to see which app used them and stopped LOTS. I thought I was going to make my phone useless, but everything works just fine.

Not yet showing on search of F-droid

Please can you support the honeypot comment? Both Privacy Tools and Privacy guides and others recommend it. There is a reasonable free tier and a paid tier. I don’t see the honeypot.

Just get the f out of gmail. Almost anything else is better. Dont hold off for perfection as it doesn’t exist. I use Proton and Tuta. I won’t renew Proton because CEO is a wanker. Migration to Tuta was good and they have Tuta calendar.

As we say in my home town, “Wankers!”. I need to have this WhatsApp BS as its the only way to stay connected with older relatives and work groups. I’m using RethinkDNS on my phone and have blocked as many Meta DNS and network links as I can find online. Exactly none of them show up on my firewall logs! The connections in/ out appear to be via “safe” routes, which if blocked then break wider functionality. To use yet another completely unheard of home town phrases, “Bastards”.

For Android:

1. Use ADB (or similar tools) to remove Facebook, Meta, Twatter, Instagram, etc., from all your Android devices.
2. Use a tool like RethinkDNS or other firewall to block block block. If using RethinkDNS, apply good blockers too.
3. If using a firewall that uses your VPN slot, setup wireguard to use your VPN host
4. Have different browsers on your device e.g. Brave, IronFox, Cromite. Follow online guides to set up.
5. Use DuckDuckGo, SearXNG or Mullvadleta to search
6. Never access Facebook, Insta, Twitter etc. from your mobile device. In fact, if you have the right firewall / blocking set up, you simply cannot.
7. Do as much online shopping from a laptop / PC with a secure browser. Also, have about 3 different browsers there too.
8. If you MUST use Facebook etc., only do it from a browser on your laptop / PC.

Just my personal strategy. My firewall logs show its quite effective but not fully impervious.

This is the way

I use Cromite and Brave (yeah yeah) plus IronFox via Accrescent.
Brave may well have undesireables like the CEO, cryptocurrency etc., but so easy to switch off. Use your device with RethinkDNS (with or without Wireguard configured) to remove further wrinkles.

Aimed entirely to appease and impress the many MAGA / Trump voting dumbasses.

Definitely have multiple browsers. IronFox is a great option. I use Brave as it simply works with the onboard filters and hardening. There are a few easy guides to walk through the settings changes that improve the picture.

That works for me, but how do the browser builders achieve that privacy AND retain at least reasonable useability for normal / majority users?

I’ll he RethinkDNS for its firewall. It took me a while to work out how to use it (not very skillful at these things), but ever since, I’ve felt much safer. Rightly or wrongly

I’ve been using LibraWolf on desktop for several years now. It’s just far simpler than modifying standard Firefox. for my personal needs.

Here in the UK, many typical phone users already assume that their data is shared anyway. Every person that i spoke to about this today asked why I think it’s a problem as they have nothing to hide. A worrying position.