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Might change if you get a VPN and change servers. I’m assuming that the suggested accounts are based on location.


I completely forgot about repositories in F-Droid. This is very helpful, thank you.


I’m curious, why do you use that over a VPN?


Same. Seems like YouTube is back on their anti VPN and frontend spree which will inevitability have a workaround and then they’ll be at it again. It’s cyclical at this point.


I’ll look into it. Thanks.

Edit: it’s not on f-droid :/


Is freetube broken again?
Using mullvad VPN. Keeps giving me the bad https status 403 message no matter which server I switch to. Anybody else having this issue or has workarounds?
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You don’t actually have to have a beefy computer to self host. I know with deepseek there’s a 1.5b model which is optimized for low end hardware. I self hosted it on a desktop from 2012 and it worked alright. 8gb RAM, i5 processer, quad core. Was the GPU usage high? Yep. Still worked tho.


Do you know if there’s a difference in the frequency of releases of the f-droid version and the play store version?


I’m in the US. I wonder if there’s any drawback to using an Australian provider. Like, will it get flagged or something?


I don’t get why they don’t just make it a paid service entirely. Seems odd that email providers like to do that.


Do they compare similarly in regards to privacy?



Is Tuta a good alternative to gmail?
I've been looking to switch from gmail to a different email provider that's more private. I've been hearing about Tuta, are there any drawbacks to it? Are there better options? For a while I was planning on making the switch to protonmail but that's off the table now due to the recent events surrounding them.
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Assuming this email is legit, the best thing that you can do is change as many of your passwords as possible to be unique and complex. You may also want to consider deleting old email addresses and getting new ones. Alternatively you can separate your emails addresses by having one for signing up for spammy services, one for personal stuff, one for work/school, etc. Try not to have much overlap between them all.

Edit: I also highly recommended using a temporary email for signing up for stuff whenever possible. I always use this one , but there are plenty of others too.


I’ve heard of ironfox but it doesn’t look easy to install on Android right now


How to harden fennec for privacy?
Now that Mull is no longer being supported, what are some recommendations to tweak fennec so that it matches Mull in terms of privacy and security?
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Hm…what’s the best choice to switch to then? I was under the impression that fennec is less private and secure than mull.



I’ve used freetube for a while and it seems like it’s expierencing the same issues since I’ve been getting a lot of error messages lately.


Yeah, but you can get movie rips off other places like archive.org. Also, in the US at least there’s not much of a penalty for consuming pirated content, only if you distribute it. The chance of that even happening is greatly reduced if you use a VPN.



Hell, I’m having issues using the plain old YouTube website. It tries to make me sign in.


Is it? I haven’t heard much about mullvad browser.


It seems to me with JavaScript it doesn’t work


Is there no way to spoof that I’m using one of those without actually using them?


Reducing my browser fingerprint?
I went on amiunique.com, and it says that I'm unique. Lowest scores: list of fonts JS (0.01%), canvas (0.00%), media devices (0.00%), user agent (0.11%), and audio data (0.80%) I use Linux Mint Debian edition, Librewolf browser, and Mullvad VPN. How do I become less unique?
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That’s weird. I use WhatsApp daily without Google play services and it doesn’t do that. I have a pixel 7a



Most of my communications with friends used to be on Instagram and discord. Discord was easy to get rid of because I kept having issues with notifications on it and told my friends that and eventually they got the message when I just didn’t receive/reply to anything that they sent me.

Instagram was a lot harder to get rid of. It’s a lot easier to pressure people in person than online. I deleted Instagram and told my friends that they could get in touch with me on signal. Initially they were contacting me on SMS, but I used social pressure with my converted friends to get the others on it by making a group chat on signal and constantly referencing conversations on there. Fear of missing out is a big motivator to get people to switch.

Another thing that I did was empathize the features of signal over SMS. I talked about things like being able to see when people are typing, read receipts, profile pictures, stickers, etc. Obviously my main motivation is for security, but a lot of people automatically bristle and have the usual “i don’t have anything to hide” talking points so it’s been easier to use those other approaches. With the results of the recent US election it’s been easier to convince people to make the switch, though.


$550 is a lot which is why it’s a future plan for me. I have a pixel 7a which is serving me well at the current moment but the repairability on this thing is egregious. To repair the battery you have to unseal the adhesive with a heat gun and then pull off the interior battery adhesive and there’s no guarantee it’ll reseal properly. I plan to get as much life as I absolutely can out of this phone, but when it gives up the ghost I want something that’ll last a long time and is repairable because reducing e-waste is important to me. I also just enjoy being able to fix things by myself. By the time I need a new phone, all of the five year old phones will be the current shitty unrepairable ones we have today.



My banking app recently stopped working on graphene too. Mildly annoying.


How private is a fairphone?
I'm thinking of getting a fairphone in the future. I like that they are modular and last a while. Are they easily customizable to where I can flash a different ROM? Is the default configuration private?
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If that’s true, sure. Then they’d not be selling data but profiting off it.


I’m using the voyager client on android. There’s an option when you make/edit a post to add an accessible caption.


My apologies. I will update it to have an accessible version.

Edit: accessible transcription has been added


I'm impressed at how obvious of a lie this is and how hard they're trying to do mental gymnastics to justify their argument.
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Marginalia isn’t a daily driver search engine, but it specifically gets you obscure results. Pretty nifty side-engine to have.


I have WhatsApp from Aurora store on grapheneOS and occasionally get what you’re describing, but it’s not constant.


Yup. I’ve had the same issue with invidious. Hope it’ll get fixed soon. Freetube works for now.


Interestingly enough I tried whatismyip on both my main and secondary profile and they both showed the same IP and location


I’ve only got about a month left that I have to use it. Would prefer to use a separate profile as opposed to a web browser so I wouldn’t have to sign in all of the time + get flagged as a bot because of my VPN. I have tried webapp sandboxing but it hardly worked and broke most things.


GrapheneOS questions/help
As per my previous post regarding Instagram, it was suggested to me to add it to a separate profile on grapheneOS. I have a couple of questions about it: 1.) Does the VPN on my main profile apply to my secondary profile 2.) Do I even need a VPN on my second profile if the only thing on it is Instagram and most permissions are off 3.) Is there a way to transfer selected images/files to the secondary profile Any other tips for limiting Instagram's tracking are welcome as well. EXCEPT for "Instagram bad get rid of it." I am already aware of that.
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I have an old-ish dumb TV. Just look around on something like Craigslist and you’ve got a good chance of finding one


How is instagram spying on me?
I want to preface this by saying that yes, I know that Instagram is bad. I am planning to get rid of it in the future but as of now I have to keep it for communication with people who are only on that platform. So I have grapheneOS, use protonvpn (free version), use mull as my browser, and do not have google play services enabled on my phone. I do have some apps downloaded through aurora store such as Instagram, whatsapp, mychart, and mint mobile, but the rest came from f-droid. I have noticed multiple times that after having private conversations on matrix, I get Instagram content in my feed that is scarily accurate to the conversation I had on the other platform immediately after. I know that things discussed in Instagram direct messages and group chat will give suggested content based on those conversations, but I get stuff that that is very specific to what I have ONLY discussed on matrix and didn't look up via my browser. So my question is how is Instagram doing this and what can I do to mitigate the spying it's doing on my other apps. Thanks.
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