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First two very simple steps:
- Install Firefox on both your desktop and your smartphone, stop using Google Chrome. Bonus point if you add the uBlock origin addon.
- Install Signal to talk with your friends. You can continue to use whatsapp in the same time, that is fine. But start using Signal anyway, so when enough people will have done the same, you will be able to ditch whatsapp.
➡️ @switchingsoftware
The guide's website is at https://switching.software
Thes a git for the project at https://codeberg.org/swiso/website
#SwitchingSoftware #Privacy #FOSS #FLOSS #Libre #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #Computing #Alternatives #Federation #Federated #DeleteFacebook #DeleteGoogle #DeleteMicrosoft #DeleteAmazon
@Andreas_Schwab@twitter.com @1Br0wn@twitter.com @FantaAlexx@twitter.com @EP_SingleMarket@twitter.com When you control whole markets & 2+ billion users, being a digital silo is not an option. Way too dangerous for us and our democracies.
(Also: #interoperability does not break #security or #privacy. Ask @ara4n@twitter.com & the folks at @matrixdotorg@twitter.com. They know a thing or two about this.)
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/ilumium/status/1401922257564450827
https://www.digitalrights.ie/facebook/
#privacy #security #infosec
Every human being must have to make their own choices as far as their #privacy goes so that when they grow up they don't have to fix some bragging moments shared from some dumb parents!
#babyprivacy #choice #socialmedia #photo #tracking
Shady homebrew crypto that once got broken, crowning themselves as "savior of #privacy" when nobody can verify the whole stack, and now this: #ads in chats.
https://telegram.dog/durov/142
Use #XMPP with proper #e2ee (like #OMEMO) or nothing at all. You can't have a realistic expectation of privacy otherwise.
Link by @thenewoil ne
Wow I did not know how many (German) universities are already using @matrixdotorg@twitter.com for their probably hundreds of thousands of students and staff.
#federation #interoperability #privacy
https://doc.matrix.tu-dresden.de/en/why/
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/ilumium/status/1354073767450963968
This article about a #CIA offshoot funding several prominent Internet #privacy projects is pretty damning on its own, but it will not change my app usage decision. I do not personally use #Signal to be protected from nation-state level #surveillance.
However, it put in perspective Edward Snodwen's recent "testimonial" for the app as being alive as a good reason to use Signal. Now I do not believe this is the main reason or even a reason at all he hasn't been assassinated on the US government orders yet.
Bottom line, even if Signal had a US-government backdoor, I'd still recommend its use to protect oneself from corporate surveillance.
La politique de confidentialité de WhatsApp va accélérer l’adoption d’applications de messagerie décentralisées https://www.servicesmobiles.fr/?p=68679 #Expert #Messagerie #Privacy #Startup
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/servicesmobiles/status/1349296392896827392
In their quest for digital sovereignty, European armies are turning to encrypted messaging software like France's @matrixdotorg@twitter.com 💬
#messagingplatform #privacy #digitalsovereignty #FrenchTech #France #Germany @BMVg_Bundeswehr@twitter.com @AmandineLePape@twitter.com @armeedeterre@twitter.com
https://sifted.eu/articles/european-armies-matrix/
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Siftedeu/status/1333319919178571783
"Mozilla works with advertising partners to place sponsored tiles on the Firefox home page (or New Tab) that would be useful to Firefox users. Mozilla is paid when users click on sponsored tiles."
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/sponsor-privacy
You can disable this by setting `browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.showSponsoredTopSites` to `false`.
Found via https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/jybx2w/uh_why_is_firefox_showing_me_sponsored_links_in/
#privacy
https://techcrunch.com/2020/11/08/tim-berners-lees-startup-inrupt-releases-solid-privacy-platform-for-enterprises/
WTF Patreon
Is that an acceptable list of permissions just to verify my patreon name?
Read all my tweets including the private one, access my contacts, follow or unfollow people for me, write or delete tweets with my account... the list isn't even over! No, hell no!
Let's do a bad buzz here, shall we? Retweet this: (as patreon is obviously not on mastodon)
#wire was sold to a US holding and updated their #privacy policy without informing their users. #deletewire