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Hej,
Tractive is a service to track dogs and cats, via a GPS tag attached to their collar.
I'm more than aware this isn't a privacy conscious service, but from what research I did it was by far the most "effective" service and easily accessible.
I paid a full year subscription for this service during January. But now two months later they have changed their terms. They do not list what these changes are.
My Questions are:
1. What's the best way to find the differences in the old vs. new terms?
2. I bought the product before these changes were made, does that somehow give me a right to continue using them under the old terms?
3. Considering I bought this before the changes, and if I don't agree with new terms, do I have the right to a refund?
Appricate any suggestions!
Picking between the ones you listed it’s basically a “pick your poison” situation.
Klarna is definitely extremely sketchy. I’ve yet to read their terms of services but km not looking forwards to it.
I think all of these companies are sketch in one way or another. You would be better off choosing something like Wise or Revolut as they at least offer disposable credit cards for one time purchases.
From what I’ve heard the best option for deleting your data from brokers is: https://easyoptouts.com/
This is just run by two honest dudes and is considerably cheaper than the other services. The reason I like this one (though not used as I don’t live in the US, is because these guys are quite transparent about the process.) I’ve heard numerous podcasts where these guys come into the show and talk about their work. As an example they were on the Firewalls don’t stop dragon podcast. I would at least have a look at this service and compare with the rest.
Best of luck 🍀
Podcast details:
Episode webpage: https://podcast.firewallsdontstopdragons.com/2024/12/09/deleting-your-data/
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- grapheneos.org
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cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/15995282
>Real unfortunate news for GrapheneOS users as Revolut has decided to ban the use of 'non-google' approved OSes. This is currently being posted about and updated by GrahpeneOS over at [Bluesky](https://bsky.app/profile/grapheneos.org/post/3kyjx7mqssj2j) for those who want to follow it more closely.
>
Edit: had to change the title, originally it said Uber too but I cannot find back to the source of ether that's true or not..
I was in your exact same boat a year ago, and decided to try both solutions. I ended going with the streamlined one. As you said, you are already paying for the service and Proton Pass is imo a pleasantly nice password manager to use. It is a lot easier to create and delete aliases there than through Bitwarden/DDG, at least that was my experience. Proton pass is now my most used day to day app list and I’m very happy with it.
While all eggs in one basket isn’t great from a security stand point, I am pretty happy with this solution. I do however keep 2fa in separate app, Ente Auth.
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Hi!
Thinking about registering a new domain for homelab setup. Not quite sure which registrar to go with but have heard good things about Porkbun here on lemmy. But, do people fill in their actual real name, and details for these sorta things? Geuninly curious, don't want to end up on bad terms with a company. But on the other hand im just going to use this for my homelab and dont see the "need" to give away my details for this sorta thing.
Let me know how you guys do it :)
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Genuinely curious as to how these types of giveaways work and what the company gains from them. Is it the additional data you give them to enter the giveaway? Also does anyone own one of these cameras, are they actually worth redeeming in this case?
Here is another tool for checking/scanning Android apps; https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/
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- zen-browser.app
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Just stumbled upon this project, seems rather new as my DNS blocked its domain by default for being too new hehe.. Anyone had a chance to try it yet? Its got some hefty promises, like having equally strong privacy features as Librewolf. I'll be giving it ago at least, almost sounds a bit too good to be true...
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Hi there. I need to use my phone for work, but want to isolate anything that is work related. What's the recommended way of doing so these days? Found the Foss app called Shelter, but found it to be a bit buggy and seems to have been a while since previous update. Let me know about any tips or recommendations regarding this! 🙌
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FUTO just launched their privacy focused keyboard app. I know there have been quite a few posts about keyboard recommendations, so this might be worth checking out if you're not happy with your current one.
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After the podcast show [*The Privacy, Security, & OSINT Show*](https://inteltechniques.com/podcast.html) stopped putting out episodes, I've been on the lookout for other ones. Just stumbled upon *[The Lockdown (Practical Privacy & Security)](https://lockdown.media/podcast/)* and it seems rather good based on the first episode I listened to so thought i'd share it. But am still looking for more as I am a big podcast listener, so please do recommend any privacy focused podcasts 🕵️
Waterfox is a browser, obviously based on Firefox, but without default "junk" that Firefox comes with.
Don't see many mentions to Waterfox at all in this community? Are there any specific reasons for it? Seems like a neat version of Firefox, with development based out of the UK.
- **Worthwile blogpost on their independence and future updates:** https://www.waterfox.net/blog/waterfox-in-2023/
- **Project:** https://www.waterfox.net
- **Flathub:** https://flathub.org/apps/net.waterfox.waterfox
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Welp I guess this is the perfect example of companies not deleting your credentials and account info when asking for it... I deleted my Notion account several years ago. And completely randomly today got an email from them about data retention, assuming this is one of those "important" emails they have to send out. Sadly, years ago I wasnt using email-aliases like I am today, so still stuck with them having my email. Fuck I hate this so much. Thought I'd just share this lesson, use alises my friends!
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Yo peeps, I'm currently looking into [TCF Vendors](https://iabeurope.eu/vendor-list-tcf/), Ad partners and their whole **corporate greed hellhole of tracking.** I am writing a paper on this, and would like for everything to be factually correct. However, I am struggling to understand one particular part of this "transparency framework" and hope someone can help me clarify on cookie-duration.
As seen in the first thumbnail, the cookie duration is listed as 180 days. However, upon selecting > Storage Details, each cookie is displayed in further detail. In this detailed section, there are additional cookies with duration as high as 1825 days, not 180... So which is it? Currently, I'm (obviously) assuming the worst, as in, it being 1825 and not 180 days. There are additional cookies on this list, see spoiler below, that have cookies with the duration of 180 days. Why are the cookies with the highest duration listed on the first page? And if the answer is that "it would look worse", then they also have cookies with lower amount of days than 180 that could have been used. There are multiple cookies with different durations, do all of them count?
### If needed here is a spolier that includes all the cookies in detail from the Exactag GmbH vendor.
::: spoiler SPOILER
```
Exactag GmbH - Storage details
Name: exactag_new_adoptout
Type: Cookie
Duration: 1825 (days)
Domain:
Purposes:
Store and/or access information on a device
Refreshes Cookies: No
Name: exactag_new_ccoptout
Type: Cookie
Duration: 1825 (days)
Domain:
Purposes:
Store and/or access information on a device
Refreshes Cookies: No
Name: exactag_new_optout
Type: Cookie
Duration: 1825 (days)
Domain:
Purposes:
Store and/or access information on a device
Refreshes Cookies: No
Name: exactag_new_cpv
Type: Cookie
Duration: 1 (days)
Domain:
Purposes:
Store and/or access information on a device
Measure advertising performance
Measure content performance
Refreshes Cookies: No
Name: exactag_new_gk
Type: Cookie
Duration: 60 (days)
Domain:
Purposes:
Store and/or access information on a device
Measure advertising performance
Measure content performance
Refreshes Cookies: No
Name: exactag_new_uk
Type: Cookie
Duration: 180 (days)
Domain:
Purposes:
Store and/or access information on a device
Measure advertising performance
Measure content performance
Refreshes Cookies: Yes
Name: exactag_new_user
Type: Cookie
Duration: 180 (days)
Domain:
Purposes:
Store and/or access information on a device
Measure advertising performance
Measure content performance
Refreshes Cookies: Yes
Name: session_session
Type: Cookie
Duration: Uses session cookies
Domain:
Purposes:
Store and/or access information on a device
Measure advertising performance
Measure content performance
Refreshes Cookies: No
```
:::
Let me know if any additional information is needed.
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Hiya, just quickly wondering if anyone know about a good tool for comparing Privacy policies against each other? Im currently downloading each PP, then using self-hosted StirlingPDF to compare 1 on 1. However, I am looking for a more efficient tool, to compare multiple at the time, if there are any. Any tool that can handle multiple PDFs or HTML files and look at the differences between them kinda tool.
Appreciate any suggestions! 🕵️
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Hiya, so quickly wondering wether you have enabled this or not. Obviously it's not great for privacy, but it also seems very nice to have for image cloud solutions, so that images can be sorted based on location. Are there any good solutions for this? I'd like have it enabled, but also afraid of sharing images with sensitive metadata in them.
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edit: please see comments for more informed insights.
I am currently investigating and reverse engineering **free** VPNs for a master thesis, and just came across something I thought I'd share. VPN in this case is 1clickvpn.net, not .com!
I'm sharing this as a warning as to never use free vpns! They are most often the opposite of what they promise to be. (by free I do not mean the free versions of premium services). But either way; be careful about your VPN choice, as they have access to a lot of sensitive data. I'm sure most peeps here know of this already, but next time you hear someone using a free vpn, let them know...
This first image/code was sitting inside a file called NetworkModule, with some hella weird external links.
1. addrDOTcx, seems to have been linked to malware? Comes up flagged as malicious a few times on [VirusTotal](https://www.virustotal.com/gui/url/095636b57c1246e28fbbfce6016802a76bae5216bf48bfbfa27c7581906b8d97).
2. freevpnDOTzone, seems to be another free possible malicious VPN service, might investigate this one later.
3. bigbrolookDOTcom, seems to longer be a registered domain. But wtf? Was this VPN service linked to p*rn??
::: spoiler IMAGE HERE; Don't visit these links unless you know what you're doing.
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Furthermore, there is this interesting find; Now I am no expert coder, frankly quite the amateur. But does the below code really mean what I think it does? ~~Seems like it could be creating a fake connection?~~. This is more-less normal behaviour it seems, considering it is a local address it is probably used for testing purposes or making the app not crash if a connection cant be established.
Is used once here;
Stay safe 🌻
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Recently stumbled upon this note-taking app called SiYuan, but it honestly looks a bit too good to be true(?). Has anyone here used it or got any experience with it? Trying to replace Obsidian is a difficult task, and I've been through almost all note-taking apps there are out there, however this one looks fairly similar.
**Link to Repo;**
https://github.com/siyuan-note/siyuan
**Link to project;**
https://b3log.org/siyuan/en/
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Hi there,
So just watched latest video of Jim Browning and in the video he had a sponsor I had not heard about before, Guard.io. So I went to check it out, and it seems like a fairly decent service (by that I mean, a service I would put on family members devices) for helping against possible phishing attempt and general safeguarding online activity etc.. I currently have installed Ublock Origin in their browsers and pointed their DNS to `base.dns.mullvad.net`, but that's about it.
So:
- Anyone had any experience with this service?
- What's the general consensus around this service?
- Is it necessary, compared to the measures I mentioned above?
- Are there any other general measure I could implement on their devices? (they are on both apple and Android ecosystems)
Thanks for any suggestions 🌻
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Heya, as the title suggests. I have tried the KDE Initary (on mobile), but the user experience didn't quite flop-my-mop. It is however the better one in terms of privacy as far as I have found. Are there any other ones that you folks know of and would recommend? Looking for an app that specifically can hold boarding passes.
Thanks in advance :=)
This is a random screenshot he used in hos video for roughly 2 seconds. This is not his tierlist.