www.privacytools.io is on Tor! http://privacy2zbidut4m4jyj3ksdqidzkw3uoip2vhvhbvwxbqux5xy5obyd.onion/index.html -- pretty neat right?
Let's talk about how to avoid price differences on devices while booking flights. How would you do it?
"There's a $87 dollar difference between searching for a flight on my iPad and computer for the same flight. $269 on the computer and $182 on iPad."
Great spanish privacy blog from @josantleon@mastodon.social
Documentary: The Cleaners (2018) - A look at the shadowy underworld of the Internet where questionable content is removed. #Facebook #Twitter #Google #Privacy
A brand new Huawei #P30 Pro smartphone has been found to be sending queries and possibly data to Chinese government servers, without the user having signed up for any #Huawei services.
While I work on a new ThinkPrivacy site, I changed to a single page design for now to be the solution to what I think pages like PrivacyTools got wrong when nesting too many of their pages.
I hope this is even easier for people to access.
@danarel Hi Dan, just found your website. I've added you to our follow list here:
https://social.privacytools.io/about/more#follow
We also run a GitLab and Mastodon instance, in case you are considering switching:
EFF: Guide to Choosing a Messenger. Step-by-step guides and detailed information on secure messaging apps for Android, iOS, Windows, Mac and Linux.
If you are using Firefox and YouTube seems slow to load you can speed it up (up to 5x) with this tweak in about:config.
-Open new tab and enter about:config (accept if prompted for warranty risk)
-Right click on any preference and go New>String
>As preference name copy/paste:
general.useragent.override.youtube.com
As preference value copy/paste:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:41.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/41.0
For darkmode you can install Stylus addon and pick theme you like.
You can also vote here with more options: https://forum.privacytools.io/t/poll-what-is-your-favorite-everyday-browser/50
Google intentionally slows down YouTube on Firefox by 80% by using old libraries that are unsupported by Firefox because they were deprecated.
https://9to5google.com/2018/07/25/youtube-chrome-firefox-edge-speed-mozilla/
Google disproportionately hits Firefox users with Captchas.
https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/9vmsyp/google_recaptchas_targeting_firefox_and_other/
Google intentionally serves old version of Google Shopping to Firefox users, changing user agent to Chrome (while still on Firefox) fixes it.
https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/be0o68/google_shopping_doesnt_work_properly_in_firefox/
How to Live Without Google and Other Evil Tech Giants: https://write.privacytools.io/paulakreuzer/how-to-live-without-google-and-other-evil-tech-giants #privacy
Founder of privacytoolsio.io #privacy #encryption #opensource #vpn #decentralization #selfhosting #alternatives #usability