Tom Funke @sparks@social.privacytools.io

Affiliate marketing schemes are untrustwothy by design. There's no better example of this than VPN "review" sites. https://blog.privacytools.io/the-trouble-with-vpn-and-privacy-reviews/

Nicht ganz frisch, aber relevant zum Beispiel für Signal-Nutzer*innen, und sicherlich viele andere Messeger: auch gelöschte Nachrichten können ausgelesen werden - hier von der britischen Polizei https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p062fstc

15 years ago today. The first release of Ubuntu 🥳 #Ubuntu15

You can tell Google to fsck themselves with their "payment policy" by simply installing Wireguard from F-Droid which I've been doing since version 1 https://news.slashdot.org/story/19/10/16/2215248/google-ejects-open-source-wireguard-from-play-store-over-donation-links

Also tons of other cool #android apps on F-Droid, all open-source, carefully checked for privacy violations and built from source.

You can take clicks away from twitter when posting links from twitter here, just replace twitter.com part of link with nitter.net, lets not feed the beast if we don't have to.

Welches Betriebssystem nutzt Ihr Mastonauten?

The new anti facial recognition outift.

#Servicetoot - #Google has unfortunately blocked many #Invidious instances so that they don't work anymore.I hope they will work again soon.In the meantime please use other instances which still work and do *not* access #Youtube directly because that would show Google that their plan works.I clicked through the instance list on #Github and here are the instances which still work:
- https://invidious.drycat.fr
- https://invidiou.sh
- https://no.invidiou.sh
- https://invidio.us
- http://qklhadlycap4cnod.onion
- http://fz253lmuao3strwbfbmx46yu7acac2jz27iwtorgmbqlkurlclmancad.onion
#FuckOffGoogle #Privacy #FuckYoutube

New article based on my last post.
I'm open to any feedback so feel free to leave a comment.

https://write.privacytools.io/privacy-simplified/why-privacy-matters-even-if-you-have-nothing-to-hide

Revealed: Google made large contributions to climate change deniers

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/11/google-contributions-climate-change-deniers

#OpenMaps is available on #Fdroid 🎉
https://f-droid.org/packages/app.fedilab.openmaps/

@sparks @tobi indeed that is one very good reason, the name of the attacker should not matter.

Another one is the protection of a potentially innocent family. His childs or parents etc. probably did not know anything.

Last August, the excellent Gitlab forge migrated to Google Cloud : -(
https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2018/07/19/gcp-move-update/

As a direct consequence, the site is no longer accessible from several countries. Indirect consequence: sysadmin and developpers in these same countries can no longer download Gitlab's source code to install it on their servers.

@Framasoft provides a mirror of Gitlab Debian repositories: https://apt.gitlab.mirror.framasoft.org/

Feel free to share the information (in other languages if possible).

California-based game company Blizzard bans pro esports player and confiscates his prize money after he voices support for Hong Kong protesters: https://www.businessinsider.de/blizzard-bans-esports-player-blitzchung-supporting-hong-kong-protests-interview-2019-10
This shows once again why we must keep fighting for freedom of speech. As consumers, we can show companies that values matter. Leave big tech behind and choose services that respect you and your right to privacy and freedom of speech: https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/how-to-leave-google-gmail/

How cool is that?

You Gave Your Phone Number to Twitter for Security and Twitter Used it for Ads
https://thehackernews.com/2019/10/twitter-advertising-privacy.html
#turvalisus #privaatsus

More than 400 police departments across the U.S. have entered into surveillance partnerships with Amazon’s camera enabled doorbell company, Ring.

These partnerships should end. https://www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2019-10-07-open-letter-calling-on-elected-officials-to-stop/

Tutanota is blocked in Egypt. This shows that we must keep fighting for our right to privacy and freedom of speech! ✊
https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/secure-email-tutanota-blocked