Some government any day now: To fight CP, we are going to make children illegal.

thanks :)

I’ve read this on GrapheneOS page

“Avoid Gecko-based browsers like Firefox as they’re currently much more vulnerable to exploitation and inherently add a huge amount of attack surface. Gecko doesn’t have a WebView implementation (GeckoView is not a WebView implementation), so it has to be used alongside the Chromium-based WebView rather than instead of Chromium, which means having the remote attack surface of two separate browser engines instead of only one. Firefox / Gecko also bypass or cripple a fair bit of the upstream and GrapheneOS hardening work for apps. Worst of all, Firefox does not have internal sandboxing on Android. This is despite the fact that Chromium semantic sandbox layer on Android is implemented via the OS isolatedProcess feature, which is a very easy to use boolean property for app service processes to provide strong isolation with only the ability to communicate with the app running them via the standard service API. Even in the desktop version, Firefox’s sandbox is still substantially weaker (especially on Linux) and lacks full support for isolating sites from each other rather than only containing content as a whole. The sandbox has been gradually improving on the desktop but it isn’t happening for their Android browser yet.” https://grapheneos.org/usage

And all I use is Gecko-based hehe (although on desktop), I’m currently using Brave just to have some old/disposable accs logged, but I’m looking for Chromium alternatives… and I just looked at ungoogled git and it seems like I have to download a bunch of stuff to compile it myself, argh, I hate that :P

I said American because of stuff like the Patriotic Act and crap like that :P

but would you over Brave or unGoogled Chromium?

I wanted to test this DuckDuckGo browser and had to create firewall exceptions to improving.duckduckgo.com and staticcdn.duckduckgo.com just to be able to install it… I already had it blocked because sometimes I use duck.ai and the connection to those domains serves no purpose to the service, and I had already opt-out of the “anonymized” telemetry, so I don’t know why I was still connecting to improving.duckduckgo.com… off to a bad start.

The sad thing about the Fediverse is that I’d get more answers about it on X and Reddit

OP just deflecting and ignoring… here’s the deal about privacy:

If the company doesn’t advertise itself for not saving logs or selling your data: Don’t waste time with the ToS.
They are saving logs and selling your data.

If the company advertise itself for not saving logs or selling your data, but it’s American: Don’t waste time with the ToS.
The government can legally force them into cooperation while placing them under a gag order.

If the company advertise itself for not saving logs or selling your data and it’s not American: Read the ToS if you want, but it’s not important.
You will hardly find anything that is not open source recommended for privacy. Read independent code review of the software and third party audits of the company.

“they keep using it thinking it enhances their privacy.”
Can you give an example of stuff people use because they think it will enhance their privacy but don’t?

about DuckDuckGo https://duckduckgo.com/privacy
“We don’t save your IP address or any unique identifiers alongside your searches or visits to our websites. We also never log IP addresses or any unique identifiers to disk.”

Sure, you can’t trust American companies for shit, same goes for Brave and its ecossystem, so if you can’t trust the ToS content, what’s the point of reading it, duh :P

If a company doesn’t advertise itself for not saving logs, having no trackers, not using you to train AI, not selling your data, etc, etc, it’s because they are doing all of that, so it’s also pointless to read the ToS… if they say they don’t save logs, etc, then sure, there may be a point reading to see if there are any caveats, but I trust more third party audits (like Proton and Mullvad regularly have) and the code being open source and reviewed independently.

Can you give an example of stuff people use because they think it will enhance their privacy but don’t?
Because software and services people use because they think it enhances their privacy usually are:

Proton (mail, VPN, docs, storage)
Mullvad (browser, VPN, DNS, search engine)
Tuta, DuckDuckMail, SimpleLogin, addy.io, Mailvelope, Thunderbird
StartPage, DuckDuckGo, Duck.ai, SearXNG
LibreWolf, Tor, IronFox, Vanadium
uBlockOrigin, AdGuard DNS, ControlD, Technitium, Pi-Hole, simplewall, Portmaster
Debian, Fedora, Arch, GrapheneOS
Qubes, Whoonix, Tails
Fediverse instances that explicitly say no tracking/analytics, telemetry/data selling, ads, AI training

Reading the ToS of any of these revealed they in fact don’t enhance privacy?

also, if someone ends up connecting to me and go straight to cp, it’s going to be my fucking address there?? haha

Oh, sorry, if switching instance doesn’t work, here’s the original YouTube link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pp9MwZkHiMQ
ps: there is this cool addon that can change frontend and autopick instances for you so you don’t have to get tracked when browsing Big Tech sites https://libredirect.github.io/

I’m new to Lemmy. I just saw the invidious video can’t be embedded here, so just click the link :)

My father loves '00s and late '90s RTS games, so I built him a Win7 PC. I got a bit jealous of how tight its running lol
Pre-built systems, though, come with way waaay more bloat. To get a free Windows license included in the product, they shove tons of shit in. My mother had a Win10 LG All-in-One, and I recently reset and cleared it to give to my niece, I had to remove a lot of crap, but it was way worse in the Win11 Dell All-in-One she got to replace it. I’ve never seen anything like that, shit came with Spotify, Netflix, Amazon, Candy Crush… and, worst of all: McAfee. This Win11 laptop I’m using right now came with Norton hehe - but those Bing News, Bing Weather, Bing Maps, Bing This, Bing That, all the Xbox stuff, which you need to remove through command prompt, they were in all of them. However, I’ve never tested a Win10 or Win11 that wasn’t on a pre-built device, my guess is that if you bought a license (or acquired some other way, I don’t judge hehe) and installed the OS yourself it is way cleaner… but also surely Win11 is worse than Win10 on bloat.

edit: I had written Avast but it was actually McAfee, it wasn’t even full license and it expired, also it constantly hijacked the browser and changed the search engine to Bing… pure malware behavior, crazy stuff.

It happened a few times to me during major updates, but most don’t restore packages you’ve removed. They do change other things, though.
I recently wrote this small guide: https://fuckbigtech.neocities.org/#06, and I was just about to re-read it to update, for example: Last time I was on Win11, the Windows Update had downloaded the HEIF and AV1 codecs, they were even listed in the app list to uninstall if I wanted, but they didn’t come with the laptop I have now, nor were they added through updating it. I just noticed folders weren’t displaying AVIF image thumbnails after I had debloated (and removed Windows Store). Then I discovered you can no longer download Windows utilities through their site, and it won’t work directly through PowerShell either because all download and installation is forced through Windows Store. I had already debloated extensively, so I decided to just factory-reset the laptop. This time, I downloaded both packages before removing Windows Store. Guess what? Removing Windows Store also removed the packages! So here I am, after another factory reset, leaving Windows Store there, hoping the lack of it doesn’t fuck me in the future lol
fun story: I also discovered it no longer comes with Notepad, Paint and Calculator! You have to download all from the Store, and they integrated with Copilot lol - it did come with Outlook, Maps, Teams and other crap, though… even some hidden legacy Zune, IE and Skype packages…

Every site was breaking, looking like they were fighting over DNS resolving, and I guess that was the problem. Once I removed Portmaster’s DNS settings, they started working together. Well, I have DNS set in the browser anyway, and I’m using Portmaster just to monitor those non-browser connections. Using Windows, it’s crazy that on startup you already have like 9 pages of random Windows processes trying to call home and tell them what you’re doing lol

A Roman dodecahedron, it fucks with modern people as well.

I saw that Notepad and Paint have integrated AI now. I didn’t check if the same applies to Calculator, but I’m terribly afraid they might collect my Calculator history… far more shameful than any late‑night browsing history.