FutileRecipe

FutileRecipe , 3 months ago to Technology in "No, seriously. All those things Google couldn't find anymore? Top of the search pile. Queries that generated pages of spam in Google results? Fucking pristine on Kagi – the right answers, over and ov

It takes Googles results and filters out the crap and orders results differently...

It uses more than just Google's, FYI.

https://help.kagi.com/kagi/search-details/search-sources.html

FutileRecipe , 3 months ago to Privacy in ELI5: GrapheneOS questions

No adblocker built in

They actually added a basic content blocker back in mid February, and plan on improving it over time:

Github source: https://github.com/GrapheneOS/Vanadium/releases/tag/122.0.6261.43.1

Discussion forum: https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/11000-vanadium-version-12206261431-released

FutileRecipe , 3 months ago to Privacy in Your VPN provider won't go to jail for you for 5 dollars

So, scrub my papers for alliteration. Thanks for the tip.

FutileRecipe , 3 months ago to Privacy in Google-Amazon connection?

my main workhorse.

I see what you did there.

FutileRecipe , 3 months ago to Privacy in Google Pixel alternatives?

It depends on whether you need Google services or not.

I would get a Pixel with GrapheneOS regardless of if you need Google or not. Graphene does a lot more than just sandbox the Play Store.

https://grapheneos.org/features#grapheneos

FutileRecipe , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to Privacy in What privacy friendly app/service/stuff makes your life simpler?

Gecko-based browsers are, what, 1% of the browser market?

Last I checked, Firefox was close to 3%, but you right, still not a large number.

Guess which browser is the most targeted by malicious actors? Not the one having 1% of the market, that's for sure.

It doesn't have to attract the most attackers, especially if it is notoriously weak. You shouldn't choose software that is easier to exploit simply because it's more obscure. Do you also choose weaker encryption algorithms because no one uses them? I sure hope not.

And your comment would probably ring a little more true, except we just had the xz debacle, and guess how much Linux has of a market share? Probably close to Firefox's, both in the single digits.

FutileRecipe , 3 months ago to Privacy in Your VPN provider won't go to jail for you for 5 dollars

Sounds very similar to Safing Privacy Network. They route different applications across nodes (Tor-esque).

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/75549281-786f-4151-b027-7d8bddd4e4b8.png

FutileRecipe , 3 months ago to Privacy in What privacy friendly app/service/stuff makes your life simpler?

After following your Github link, I found my way to the blog post that it looks like you are quoting

You mean the quote block where I said it was undergoing a large rewrite and don't submit any feature PRs? That was actually the first two sentences of the README.md on the TeamNewPipe GitHub link I gave lol.

FutileRecipe , 3 months ago to Privacy in What privacy friendly app/service/stuff makes your life simpler?

okay with shouldering the security risk

To me, that depends on what you use the phone for. I sometimes use mine for banking as well as logging into various sites, so I want to reasonably minimize the security risk I am taking. If I wasn't, then sure.

FutileRecipe , 3 months ago to Privacy in What privacy friendly app/service/stuff makes your life simpler?

Mobile Fennec (or pick your poison for any Firefox fork)...

I can't get behind Android Firefox/Gecko-based due to their lack of security:

Avoid Gecko-based browsers like Firefox as they're currently much more vulnerable to exploitation and inherently add a huge amount of attack surface. Gecko doesn't have a WebView implementation (GeckoView is not a WebView implementation), so it has to be used alongside the Chromium-based WebView rather than instead of Chromium, which means having the remote attack surface of two separate browser engines instead of only one. Firefox / Gecko also bypass or cripple a fair bit of the upstream and GrapheneOS hardening work for apps. Worst of all, Firefox does not have internal sandboxing on Android. This is despite the fact that Chromium semantic sandbox layer on Android is implemented via the OS isolatedProcess feature, which is a very easy to use boolean property for app service processes to provide strong isolation with only the ability to communicate with the app running them via the standard service API. Even in the desktop version, Firefox's sandbox is still substantially weaker (especially on Linux) and lacks full support for isolating sites from each other rather than only containing content as a whole. The sandbox has been gradually improving on the desktop but it isn't happening for their Android browser yet.

Ref: https://grapheneos.org/usage#web-browsing

FutileRecipe , 3 months ago to Privacy in What privacy friendly app/service/stuff makes your life simpler?

From what I understand, NewPipe has been abandoned...

That's completely incorrect. From NewPipe's Github:

We are planning to rewrite large chunks of the codebase, to bring about a new, modern and stable NewPipe. Please do not open pull requests for new features now, only bugfix PRs will be accepted.

...and someone else forked it to Tubular which includes SponsorBlock.

polymorphicshade "stopped" development on their fork of NewPipe, which included SponsorBlock (because NewPipe did not want to include it) and started working on their rewrite of their own fork and/or NewPipe, which is now Tubular.

FutileRecipe , 3 months ago to Privacy in The Best Private & Secure Cloud Storage in 2024

• Mainstream cloud storage providers like Google Drive and iCloud have access to users' files, posing privacy and security risks.
• Nextcloud is the preferred secure cloud storage option, but has drawbacks like the need for technical expertise to self-host and issues with end-to-end encryption.
• Filen is a user-friendly secure cloud storage option, but has some concerns around encryption implementation.
• Mega offers a large free storage plan, but has had past security issues and controversies.
• Proton's secure cloud storage is part of their broader privacy-focused ecosystem, but has some app and feature inconsistencies.
• Cryptomator is a useful tool to add an extra layer of encryption to any cloud storage service.
• Apple's Advanced Data Protection is a proprietary solution that lacks transparency compared to open-source alternatives.
• It's important to weigh the risks versus benefits when choosing a cloud storage provider based on the sensitivity of the data.
• Switching to a more secure and privacy-focused cloud storage option is worthwhile, even for non-sensitive data.
• The article encourages users to take steps to improve their cloud storage privacy and security, rather than relying on mainstream providers by default.

Courtesy of Kagi's Universal Summarizer's Key Moments.

FutileRecipe , 3 months ago to Technology in The slow death of Twitter is measured in disasters like the Baltimore bridge collapse

Unfortunately, not to my knowledge. Cheapest is $9.99/year.

FutileRecipe , 3 months ago to Privacy in Google's new AI search results promotes sites pushing malware, scams

As you said, it's hard to calculate an exact number. But if you think your search results are only worth $1/month, that's up to you to determine. I know if I was an ad-broker or profiler, I'd pay more than $1/month/person as that's valuable information, in my opinion. And Kagi is worth much more than that to me. Proton theorizes:

If Google Search market share is also 90% in the US, that’s over 274 million people using Google, and the company earns $393 per year from each of them.

Ref: https://proton.me/blog/what-is-your-data-worth

FutileRecipe , 3 months ago to Technology in The slow death of Twitter is measured in disasters like the Baltimore bridge collapse

Could you show us a few not so biased news sources? I suppose this will also vary wildly by topic. A news outlet might be narrative/propaganda driven on one topic, but not about another.

Have you heard of Ground News? It's basically a news aggregator that shows multiple stories on the same event, but with a bias rating and a factuality score, as well as a ownership category. Also, a blindspot category which shows articles being shown predominantly by one side and not the other.

The Ground News bias ratings are calculated using three independent news monitoring organizations: All Sides, Ad Fontes Media, and Media Bias Fact Check. This score does not measure the bias of specific news articles. It is an assessment of the political bias of the publication. The rating takes into consideration things like the wording, story choices and political affiliation of the outlet.