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You’ll never be able to properly block it

You can just go to Reddit instead. Same thing.

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    TheAnonymouseJoker is a clown (imo, no harassment or anything)

    Talked with them on the subject of privacy emails and they recommended services that store mail unencrypted and logs your ip address and stuff

    Their sources are « activists » that they like, rather than facts. I suspect their don’t like bigger companies and famous things even if they’re better

    I use grapheneos and it’s pretty good. Yes the main dev can be a bit of an asshole, but for what it claims to do, grapheneos is pretty good

    Sadly anything with google services, even sandboxed, is going to track you, and I believe grapheneos is pretty good at what you can do without sacrificing too much

    EU approval for chat control (www.patrick-breyer.de)

    We need to do something against this. The EU plans to apply a law for a chat control in the territory. The approval say that all the chats and the emails would be send to the government to do AI scanning to in fact “find the children abuses”, even when using apps with end-to-end encryption (the EU will ask the services to...

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    Isn’t that the vote for chat control 1.0?

    azalty ,
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    Isn’t it to vote to renew chat control 1.0?

    azalty ,
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    Yea, I mean the vote to renew chat control 1.0

    Netflix Windows app is set to remove its downloads feature, while introducing ads (www.techradar.com)

    Netflix has managed to annoy a good number of its users with an announcement about an upcoming update to its Windows 11 (and Windows 10) app: support for adverts and live events will be added, but the ability to download content is being taken away....

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    Title might be misleading, they’ll only add support for ad tiers, not introduce ads in all tiers

    azalty ,
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    This

    Fuck credit cards, long life to cash!

    azalty ,
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    It was kinda wrote like a statement. People who didn’t read the article will read it as such, misinforming people

    azalty ,
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    If misinformation is a minor issue to you, then I can’t do better

    azalty ,
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    That was the case for me, until I decided to read the article

    azalty ,
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    Sarcasm?

    azalty ,
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    By clicking the link, you’ll access an article with more information

    Not being constantly fed with information and fact checking can also be good from time to time

    It doesn’t have to be "do all the work for us or do nothing". Posters don’t owe you anything.

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    I don’t see where I’ve mentioned a small English mistake. I said that it was written like a statement, which could misinform people

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    Less tracking from websites, more tracking from us!

    1000+ Firefox for Android extensions now available – Mozilla Add-ons Community Blog (blog.mozilla.org)

    The new open ecosystem of extensions on Firefox for Android launched in December with just over 400 extensions. Less than five months later we’ve surpassed 1,000 Firefox for Android extensions. That’s an impressive achievement by this developer community! It’s exciting to see so many developers embrace the opportunity to...

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    Apple just has better integration for a lot of things, and the UI is just so much better

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    uYouEnhanced + YouTube Premium

    I don't have this problem. The android and iOS YT apps are similar, I was talking about the OS in general

    Not sure what’s wrong with paying for listening to music. Used regional pricing so for me YT premium is like 4€/month. I consider that a pretty good deal.

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    I’m on a Google Pixel with GrapheneOS so I’m not sure that would work

    azalty ,
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    I already use Aurora and have Google Play services sandboxed already enabled, but thanks anyway! :)

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    Thanks! They claim not to log any info, so that’s nice. I’ll check further but it was a big complaint that I had. :)

    Edit: they just didn’t put the privacy infos in the play store, but they seem to reserve the right to retrieve some infos.

    I’ll guess I’ll throw LuckyPatcher at it to try to remove google services and disallow internet access

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    Proton does require a recovery email address if you sign up to a mail forwarding service or similar, right after creating the account. In that case the account remains locked if you don’t, so that’s just a lie

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    Not sure how they’re better than proton is terms of compliance and anonymity

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    Still, it wasn’t optional for me, so I’m pretty annoyed that they’re saying it.

    You can remove the mail after but indeed, I won’t trust proton with not keeping that info. The mail has to be entered in the recovery email field, and then sends mail to the recovery email when you have unread mail. So it’s not a one-time mail sent with a code.

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    Source: trust me bro

    It’s just that more people use proton so more of them have their identity leaked. I don’t see how the terms of these 2 companies are better

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    I’ve never heard of those 2 providers and they don’t seem to be any better. I’m just looking for facts to back that and so far I haven’t seen any

    Being skeptical doesn’t mean being a troll or a fed, wtf. I don’t know what you’re on but it seems cool

    As for the « are you trying to discredit … without evidence » I want to answer « what can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence »

    azalty ,
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    Their privacy policy. They log IP addresses and are not immune to legal actions, and as such, are not really better than Proton in terms of legal actions

    azalty ,
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    What’s wrong with those 3 things you cited?

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    Oh so you believe that Proton wants to hand out user data? Absolutely not. It gives them bad publicity and discredits them.

    Capitalism and activism has nothing to do with the subject. We’re here for privacy and anonymity. A good service is trustless. It’s not up to Disroot and Riseup to decide whether they’ll hand out user info or not. They subject to some legislation because of the country they’re based in, and I don’t think they’re willing to go to jail by not cooperating.

    And you can spread your hate towards the younger generation and smartphones all you want, it only makes you more irrelevant. You didn’t write any argument as to why those services are better except “they’re activists” and “I trust them”, which doesn’t matter in any way.

    azalty ,
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    I should for sure trust a random guy on Lemmy with no arguments whatsoever and that criticizes well established services for no reason, and also criticizes all YouTubers with no distinction.

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    Source: the 3 first words of my comment…

    https://disroot.org/en/privacy_policy Section 4.1

    You’re the ones defending a service yet you don’t know that. Seems like someone who just found out the service can do better research. But hey, thanks for not being overly aggressive and claiming to know everything like this other guy.

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    Except with a VPN you’re not identified by the servers you connect to, so they can safely not log any traffic and as such, law enforcement can’t ask to hand out data about a specific account because they don’t know which account did it. Same goes for logging the IP of the account, because again, they don’t know which account it is, and can’t force a service to log all users for the sake of finding one.

    It’s not true for mail services however, as the email address is your login and/or is linked to a specific account, forever and exclusively.

    Disroot stores your IP address so there’s already that. Didn’t check the other one.

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    Oh so you use the argument of authority now. Great.

    I’ll check your thing. I would have enjoyed if you could have linked it because I’m a young stupid guy with a short attention span, but fine.

    If you actually checked my profile you could’ve found out I’m pretty deep into Monero, and that’s pretty much what got me into Lemmy. Don’t make assumptions without knowing people.

    I checked this page https://digdeeper.club/articles/email.xhtml#disroot and surprise surprise, no real arguments apart from quoting stuff from disroot's website. Disroot has a worse privacy policy than Proton, stores email unencrypted. You’re basically trusting Disroot not to do harmful things, which is a red flag when you could recommend services that do things properly.

    If that’s the best source you have, I seriously doubt your knowledge.

    I guess it’s now time for my ban

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    Sorry for being aggressive :)

    I just believe that Proton with end to end encryption by default is better than having unencrypted mail or similar

    Good for you if you trust them, but you might as well self host then if you don’t need protection from the government 🤔

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    What I’m saying is that VPNs can legally not give out your info, while mail services can’t, because of the technical reasons I mentioned, and as such, it doesn’t make Proton any more faulty for handing out info that it would make Riseup or Disroot to do the same. At the end, they’re all legally required to comply and will do if asked to.

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    You can’t encrypt received unencrypted mail (except if you use POP but it’s not an option if you have multiple devices), but you’re right about one thing, it’s that we can’t trust that proton doesn’t store the encryption keys. Although it is still safer to go with them because if they did, they would either have given the mails to the govs, exposing them (which didn’t happen), or they just wouldn’t hand out your mails, which is better than nothing.

    You really have a problem with people. You can only attack personally or throw baseless insults.

    I talked a lot about XMR, but also talk about session, Firefox and its privacy, file sharing like torrents, pirated stuff, VPNs… and I haven’t been very active on lemmy. But I don’t see how that gives you any more power in that conversation, knowing how bad you handled it.

    You’re just saying the same thing over and over while not understanding that what you propose is no different (or even worse), and that your pseudo arguments are empty and invalid. Just stop.

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    Proton leaked the recovery email. Apple has never given any guarantee about their mail service, which isn’t the case of Proton

    Don’t put any recovery info on Proton

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    They’re all like “privacy and freedom”, “take control of your data”…

    They’re saying they’re the best for privacy literally on their website. You might argue that Apple does it too, which is fair, even though everyone knows it’s a lie

    But yea anyways that’s a big flaw, they shouldn’t push customers to enable a feature that effectively deanonymizes them

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    I think you didn’t read my last paragraph

    azalty ,
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    Put some synthwave and sunglasses for immersion

    azalty ,
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    About that, how do we get good search results from Lemmy? I feel like the most important thing to me is finding info through google searches

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    Yea it’s mainly those that do the work actually

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    Not really anymore for Mozilla. They now get a lot of your private data and share em with their “business partners”

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    Aren’t most lists available on other browsers and ad blockers? Unless Raymond created the format

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    I believe a lot of info I got was from this video but it’s been a while so I’m not too sure: https://youtu.be/ugnOM2mzgNU

    Also yea Firefox sends a lot of telemetry data and stuff, even if you disable the option in the menu. You have to go to the developer mode to remove all of it. Check "hardened Firefox". If there is an hardened Firefox, then there is a non-hardened Firefox.

    And then there are all the contracts and calls to Google's server, for example for geolocation and stuff

    And if you want the ultimate proof, everything is in their privacy policy https://www.mozilla.org/fr/privacy/firefox/ - just see how much data they collect, use and share, for better or for worse.

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    Did you forget about geolocation?

    Mozilla's websites are full of trackers too, and they are largely funded by Google. How can you protect privacy when your biggest customer gains money by tracking? Seems like a clear conflict of interest.

    And it’s not a bit of telemetry data, it’s literally your entire computer config, number of tabs open, duration… they claim not to log IPs, but can you really trust them? The point is you’re constantly pinging with your IP to their servers for useless reasons. They literally sell your data by sharing it to their “business partners”.

    They also send the url of all files you download to Google by default. Great. That’s privacy!

    (The video also gives some good points)

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    Everything they recently added is pure bullshit and useless stuff. Just watch the video I linked, it says everything you want to hear.
    With all the data shared to their partners, I guess it's relatively easy to fingerprint you, depending on how they do it.
    And cmon about the servers, I never go to their website, I only cost money because of the shit ton of data they retrieve. An update ping from time to time and an update twice a month can't possibly cost 5 million dollars.

    They don't have anything to spend money on, the browser is pretty much full of features. The only thing to do is make it faster and check for security issues.

    At least on Brave you can opt out of this bullshit

    sorry if I missed something I’m high as fuck

    Nice

    firefox is an opensource software where literally anyone can view the source code and check themselves what is actually sent. you argument all you want with the “but can youn trust them?” but literally anyone esle except some guy on youtube didn’t feel like complaining about firefox

    As if people actually did that. I bet serverside code isn't open source

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    Didn’t know google did shady things with our mail, but yea I shouldn’t be surprised

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    Proton has a free plan as well

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    Not all countries will comply, and not all will require you to stay silent

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