BadgerInATrenchcoat @ThreeBadgersInATrenchcoat@social.privacytools.io

@freddy I mean if it were to be that'd be kind of cool. Especially since I couldn't find an iso for a VM, might be fun. Any ideas how they got the source code?

@Wetrix Recently I've been looking for a sort of fitness tracking watch for heart rate and steps and it's a genuine fucking nightmare already. You either fork out an ungodly amount of cash for a bare bones watch that does the minimum possible or you sell your soul away to Google just to try to figure out how many steps you walked today. It's impossible. I can only hope that the next generation of wearables isn't too much worse.

What is it with people just praising and shilling Safari for just adding a feature that every browser has had for a while now. I mean it just let's you know if there is as tech garbage on a site and blocks it, but so have Firefox and Brave for YEARS. And even if a browser doesn't come bundled with it, you can just download uBlock Origin, one of the most downloaded extensions of all time. Like yeah its cool that they finally added it but it took them years so they'd better, they're way behind.

@markosaric Ungoogled Chromium is just normal Chromium but striped from Google services and tracking. It still retains the security model. Firefox is weak in or entirely lacks; site isolation, win32 lockdown, limited X11 exposure, GPU process isolation, ioctl filtering, hardened malloc, CFI, JIT exploit mitigations, ACG, CIG, and much more. Chromium reduces or entirely fixes all of those issues.

@ninjatitan Then check out Mercury. They use Yandex for translation and send anonymous crash reports to google but other than they they're good.

@ninjatitan Use Husky or Tusky, they look better, work better, and best of all don't collect anything really.

@duck Riveting new discovery. I'm not sure people are ready to hear the truth...

@Tommy @librebuddys If you don't mind me asking, what is the reason for the switch to another account?

@markosaric TIL. At least you can mitigate every bit of it with Ungoogled Chromium + UBO, HTTPS Everywhere, Denetraleyes, and ClearURLs... I mean you could also use those plugins with Firefox but its so insecure nomatter what you do it's hard to recommend anyone to ever use it.

I feel like right now there are 3 good phone brands, Apple for phones with good privacy and security out of the box with minimal tweaking, Google's Pixel line for amazing security and unrivaled privacy if you flash GrapheneOS (also security on Chromebooks is the best for any laptop period but they have like no privacy so its for a very specific use case), and Sony for small phones if your focus isn't in privacy or security but just for like a good all-arounder.

Maybe its just me - I dunno

@Wetrix The funny thing is, they absolutely will never do that, the European market is huge for them, pulling out of that would cut their income numbers drastically. Its just a weak scare tactic to try to badger lawmakers into letting their bullshit slide.

@Wetrix @ethicsperoxide If you're ever looking for an alternative, I've been using UnGoogled Chromium for the past month or so and can't recommend it enough. It has innumerably stronger security than Firefox, its faster, doesn't take half an hour to configure for privacy and is good ootb, is entirely open source and is developed largely by the community, etc etc. It also has everything Google stripped out, so no need to worry about contributing to Google or telemetry or anything.

@Wetrix Many of the big changes in the update, such as delivering security patches through the play store, only apply to Googled Android devices, and will be nonexistent on hardened OSes like Graphene. So I'm really most excited for one time and while using permission management, storage system hardening, and things like that, because if you're using a Googled Android, you have bigger privacy and security problems than one time permissions or slightly quicker security patches, honestly.

@lps Late but yes, you'll notice a difference in speed, volume, and longevity.

@Wetrix I've been using the NixNet instance for a good while now since it's good for privacy, is fast, and has great results. Some instances are good for privacy, speed, and results and some aren't. Since SearX is a metasearch engine and aggregates search results from many other providers, you're likely to get good results for your query. That said, they aren't quite as good as like StartPage/Google or DuckDuckGo despite them aggregating results from Google and DuckDuckGo as well as many others.

@Wetrix Here's to hoping SearX can do the same.

@m_svo @Qwant Searx (I personally like the NixNet instance), DuckDuckGo, or even Startpage if you're so tied to Google results - you can use any of these without sacrificing your privacy to Google. They're all better than Qwant after they partnered with Huawei and Samsung as well.

@weltsnake ...and hopefully is has privacy features..?

@Wetrix I've got a pair of Sony WH100XM3s, I'm assuming those are the same or similar. I think if you're not worried about wireless headphones that connect to an app with like 10 microphones, then you probably use like Google to search and Windows 10 and all that.

@Wetrix Its also the only mobile OS endorsed by Edward Snowden to my knowledge.