like i wrote under your last post, install netGuard as a VPN and activate “manage system apps” which will permit you to block google calling home

also, with ADB you can uninstall almost anything (be careful!)

you can also choose a dns which would block those (mullvad, for example

netGuard ☞ https://f-droid.org/packages/eu.faircode.netguard

😁

I have always used Mullvad Leta as my search engine,

always? Isn’t mullvad leta online for ± 2 years?

i’m guessing that it may “help” if a person is already being targeted and now the phone model also is known

🤷

practically one isn’t better than the other. But after the founder of proton came out in support of the Trump government, i started moving. I still have my proton account but i’m paying for Tuta.

☞ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_perception

Selective perception is the tendency to not notice and more quickly forget stimuli that cause emotional discomfort and contradict prior beliefs. For example, a teacher may have a favorite student because they are biased by in-group favoritism. The teacher ignores the student’s poor attainment. Conversely, they might not notice the progress of their least favorite student. It can also occur when consuming mass media, allowing people to see facts and opinions they like while ignoring those that do not fit with particular opinions, values, beliefs, or frame of reference. Psychologists believe this process occurs automatically.

Selective perception has roots in cognitive psychology, where it is studied as a fundamental part of how individuals filter and process information based on biases, expectations, and past experiences. It is closely related to concepts like confirmation bias—favoring information that aligns with one’s beliefs—and cognitive dissonance, the discomfort of holding conflicting thoughts, both of which shape perception. Its applications extend beyond psychology, playing key roles in marketing (shaping consumer focus), politics (influencing voter perception), and mental health (understanding biases in disorders), highlighting its impact on both individual behaviors and societal trends.

depending on how you look, what your hair & skin colour is, you may be checked “randomly” while you’re walking home or when you’re crossing borders on a train. If your ID isn’t valid, they won’t just “not care about it”

that polite policeman passing you by with a “good day” would wake me up on the train to check harass me to see if i’m hiding who knows what in my testicles 🤬

Maybe it’s just personal experience

your experience doesn’t reflect Europe, it is a commentary about what you see in the mirror

Don’t say cash - lots of places don’t take cash any more.

where do you live?

here, afaik, they’re obliged by law to accept cash

ps: i checked. Cash can be refused only under specific conditions (Dirty, torn, counterfeit, more than 50 pieces &c

When a vanilla GSI starts, up to 10 different Google servers are contacted and private data is transmitted. A vanilla GSI transmits several hundred megabytes of private data to Google every day.

LeOS does not have these connections and data transfers.

after @Nicro@discuss.tchncs.de

LeOS sounds interesting indeed. Why isn’t it mentioned on privacy communities (unlike Graphene and Lineage) ?

it doesn’t.

you’re free from Windows and you can still use Excel which is necessary for your work.

did you try running excel on wine?

i’m using an app to reach sh.itjust.works servers through an ISP i pay for. Why would firefox, for example, pay for any of this?

internets were there before Google. I’m sure there are many people on lemmy who remember google as a new search engine they tried.

internet would be different, like it was different, if these hogs like google and facebook are banned from collecting and selling user data. Fuck surveillance capitalism. (fuck capitalism while you’re at it)

i have simplex, element, briar and even rattlegram.

with messengers “a different experience” is interesting (for me) but if the people i’m communicating with are not sharing those “experiences”, what good do they bring? Am i going to chat with myself?

Getting people to use Signal instead of WhatsApp was a challenge already. Now almost all my contacts are on Signal.

How am i going to get people to use any of these apps considering that Signal has no shortfalls (like belonging to Facebook and spying on you)?

Use a messenger that doesn’t require to to log in to view data stored on your phone. I’m sure the data is there, I’m just not allowed to see it.

sorry, I don’t understand what you mean.

joplin published this video recently. Open-source and offline dictation (voice typing)

https://f-droid.org/packages/net.cozic.joplin if you prefer

☞ automatic backups

Obviously Signal is the lesser evil, but don’t use Signal if you are planning a revolt is what I’m saying.

or if you’re the US’ secretary of defense and you’re going to bomb Houthis

🤷

you can add global filters to seep your subscriptions through in Handy

i use reject. Yours would be the accept i guess (or you can create a mark as starred rule for “red bees” and you would only have news about “red bees” in your starred tab

Privacy is a team sport - how do we get more more people to play?

now you’re calling them "more"s 🙂

you should stop calling people “normies”, if you want them to care about what you have to say

you understandably sound confused

I try to use “private DNS” option in my phone’s settings, but it often does not work, and therefore privacy cannot be protected all the time.

when you have private DNS enabled, you have no connection if it fails. Is it in “auto” or is there a fallback option?

Sometimes I just cannot even ping other servers by IP (like 1.1.1.1) because of it. My question is: WHY this function requires hostname (so you need to query some other plain text DNS before reaching encrypted DNS)?

🤔

Also if I understand well, it uses DNS over TLS, but I’m curious why not DNS over HTTPS (which seems like a reliable solution since I have it configured in my browser and there is never a problem with it…also it uses IP address instead of hostname).

you shouldn’t use both, iirc. Your browser is bypassing your “DNS over TLS” in this case

Why no one is seeing this problem and no one wants to address it?

because there is no problem?

I tried downloading Quad9 app, but it does not work either (I guess some IPS is filtering TLS requests in my network, but again why DOH is not used then?).

quad9 app works as a vpn. What do you mean by “it does not work either”?

fossify calculator ☞ https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.fossify.math

same with netGuard, private dns connections cannot be filtered. App rules still work but in app rules are bypassed by the inherent privacy of your dns

In the midst of the media uproar over drug trafficking, a law on “drug trafficking” is passing through Parliament. In reality, this text does not only apply to the sale of narcotics and leads to a heavy reinforcement of the surveillance capacities of the intelligence and judicial police. It is one of the most repressive and dangerous texts of recent years. This law could notably give even more powers to repress activism.

This bill was adopted unanimously in the Senate, with the support of the Socialists, the Ecologists and the Communists, and will now be discussed in the National Assembly. La Quadrature du Net is calling for urgent mobilization to raise awareness of the dangers of this text and to push left-wing parties to reject it.

for the rest of the article ☞ https://www.laquadrature.net/en/2025/02/27/all-out-mobilization-against-the-french-war-on-drugs-law/

this is your solution ☞ https://veracrypt.fr/en/Home.html or https://veracrypt.fr/

can you post your sources for this information? i would like to read some more on this ☞

Just for reference, this is what the Google Play services app transmits roughly every 20 minutes to Google if it has network access:

Phone #
SIM #
IMEI (world-wide unique device ID)
S/N of your device
WIFI MAC address
Android ID
Mail Address of your logged in Google account
IP address

it may help me convince some more people to degoogle their machines

fixed the link

veracrypt then

a hidden volume with at least one backUp ☞ https://www.veracrypt.fr/en/Hidden Volume.html

sorry, but, why are you living with people you call “adversaries”?

veracrypt ☞ http://www.veracrypt.fr/en/Home.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VeraCrypt

diary vault ☞ https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/me.sankethbk.dairyapp

The Complete iOS Privacy & Security Guide from Techlore

i don’t use nextDNS but if i had the limitations of ios on my main machine, i probably would end up using it ☞ https://nextdns.io/

Apple’s limitations are frustrating

netGuard to control which app connects to which site and which apps are blocked ☞ https://f-droid.org/packages/eu.faircode.netguard/ or https://github.com/M66B/NetGuard

because “they” don’t trust the people they “represent” and they want to avoid federal archives

they must know something about WhatsApp that we don’t

i had the same problem till i configured private dns to “adblock.dns.mullvad.net”

How to prevent DNS leaks ☞ https://mullvad.net/en/help/dns-leaks

how can one blend in in U.S.?

chodi joined lemmy 55 minutes ago. Ignore their non-reply and block

thanks for the time you spent writing this

installed it after your previous comment and it’s, like you wrote, basically Focus.

netGuard shows that Klar is constantly trying to connect to firefox.settings.services.mozilla.com & bc.googleusercontent.com

i guess it’s for the “Phishing and Malware Protection” 🤷

IronFox is my default now, after Mull. The question is not to compare the two browsers, but just the approach.

I need a second “delete data on quit” browser with JavaScript and cookies enabled for the obligatory official sites :/