★ glitcher32 ★ @glitcher32@social.privacytools.io

Im a little sketched out by DuckDuckGo lately tbh. Now yes, clearly you could just use Tor + the DuckDuckGo onion link and be fine, but still, you can't trust anything these days.

🚩 Some red flags:

Uses Bing API. (Owned by Microsoft)

Is in USA. (20 Paoli Pike, Paoli, PA 19301)

They have violated their privacy policy in the past.

Collects "anonymous" analytics about you using tracking pixels.

Some Sources:
https://duckduckgo.com/about
https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/duckduckgo.html
https://web.archive.org/web/https://www.quora.com/How-is-the-Bing-API-used-by-DuckDuckGo

Anyone know of any type of Anti-Camera/Surveillance clothing or materiel that can be used to avoid camera capture?

Face recognition is taking off and its just another level of invasion and there must be a way to tell cameras to fuck off without needing a mask that stands out.

@jonah Will there ever be a PeerTube instance here? I find it hard to find a trusted PeerTube instance that looks decent, but cannot settle.

Not sure how safe the /e/ foundation is but its worth a shot. 5GB is a start.

Check out what I found doing some deep online searching. The "People First" smartphone.

https://blloc.com/

(Not sure if its already been discovered.)

For anyone looking for a safe encrypted USB, I would recommend the Kingston DataTraveler 2000. I bought one about a month ago and everything seems great about it.

One con I don't personally like is that it the PIN is entered wrong 10 times, the USB will completly factory reset making it basically brand new giving the thief an expensive little USB.

The most you can get it in is 64GB (Kingston). There is a brand out there called iStorage that provides the same type USB, but not as trusted.

Anyone know if there is some kind of anonymous/privacy bank out there? Maybe having a fully anonymous bank card like a visa/mastercard gift card. If there isn't why not?

Which do you prefer? (With a reason would be nice.)

I hate how my Google Drive has 215GB somehow, (never paid for anything on it) yet I don't trust storing anything on it even if it was encrypted. 😢 i cry ery tim.

So the people that made the Puffin browser now are coming out with "Puffin OS".

https://www.puffin.com/os/

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cloudmosa/puffin-os-phone-for-the-next-billion-users

Anyone know how to change the default Raspberry Pi username "pi"?

I attempted to and ended up just removing the account and making a new one, but it messed up stuff causing things not to work the same so I had to reinstall the OS.

Can someone help me with getting a VPN on my Raspberry Pi (Raspbian)?

A trusted free VPN would be nice.

Anyone know the best privacy secure OS for a Raspberry Pi?

Seems like I wasted hours downloading Qubes OS to find out its to heavy for a Raspberry Pi.

Anyone know a privacy safe Translation website?

Probably not the place to ask this question, but does anyone know how to fix this YunoHost issue? When I try to add a new plugin, it says "Update failed!". Im guessing this is a php set time issue, but don't know where to find the php.ini file and edit it.

@yunohost

I just got this "old" ish ASUS desktop computer and noticed there is no Intel sticker, so I researched it online and found nothing Intel being in this computer. The only thing I see is something called "A4 Vision AMD". Does anyone know if it would have a backdoor like Intel's CPU?

Not sure if this Firefox add-on is on PrivacyTools, but its worth checking out of its not.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cloud-firewall/

Can someone with Android Studio please build an apk from some source for me?

Anyone know any good PayPal alternatives? PayPal is just an asshole in general. Not sure if bitcoin would be a very useful option.

What are some trusted privacy website hosting companies? These "unlimited" scam hosting plans are killing me. Websites always get suspended due to dumb "over usage".

(Maybe even something that can handle Wordpress.)