Is Spotify EU? They’re headquartered in Sweden, but they’re listed on the New York Stock Exchange, but their largest shareholders are Swedish and British.
Also, Soundcloud probably warrants more information. In no universe would it be someone’s primary option but if someone’s looking for a specific song that’s not in the (limited) Qobuz library then it’s a decent fallback.
I really wish Qobuz would let me bookmark individual songs in my browser. That’s the real sticking point for me (I use it).
If something’s not on Qobuz I can just listen on Soundcloud.
Remove YouTube Suggestions (assuming you still use the YouTube client directly).
Also, Tampermonkey, to install single-site scripts that you can customize and with more limited permissions.
Australia’s got a law, and I’m dreading the day I need to give Google more information in order to keep using YouTube. Certain YouTube channels are really important to me.
The idea I’m thinking of is some kind of fliphone combined with a separate device for everything else. I haven’t looked too much into it so I can’t guarantee it’s a good idea, and after like 2 minutes of searching I couldn’t find a flipphone that supported hotspotting.
I just got GrapheneOS, and while it’s good I really hate the jumpscare that is the Google logo every time I reboot (since it’s exclusive to Google Pixels).
When using the web installer, I recommend scrolling down to the bottom and clicking the download button before starting.
Spent like 30 minutes with my phone just sitting there in the bootloader waiting for it to download.
Anyone know of a desktop equivalent to IronFox?
I don’t. I just hope for the best and try to install as few things as possible.
I’m focussing on disaster recovery now, more than prevention. Prevention seems like it’s almost impossible in this age.
EDIT: I mistakenly answered based on security, not privacy.
I considered switching from Proton to Fastmail, because Proton seems to run slow in Australia. Immediately stopped considering once I realized they delete your account if you don’t pay for 6 months (and by extension, you’ll lose all your connected accounts).
So if you’re homeless, arrested, deported, or in a coma and come out of it you’ll end up losing your entire digital life.
Do your own research. This is supposed to be a starting point.
Haven’t switched from YouTube, but I’ve blocked recommendations (and auto-muted ads) with a browser extension for I think a few years now. I wouldn’t say it’s necessarily made my life better, but it has made my engagement with YouTube better.
I’ve been deleting my subscriptions one by one, if the channels don’t consistently post stuff I find valuable with the hopes of eventually removing YouTube from my life entirely.
Do VPN’s actually protect against any of that? They’re basically only useful if you want to get around your country’s internet filters, log into a website that has blocked your IP, or hide your traffic from the government (and in the latter’s case, Tor is probably a better pick).
I guess it may help with tracking, but there are so many ways in which your tracked, is your IP even one of them?
I wonder if there’s a security (not privacy) focussed fork of Firefox?
The wikipedia page for Zen Browser, LibreWolf, and GNU Icecat mention security so they’d be a good start. I don’t have the technical knowledge to investigate them. I think I’ll change to a de-googled Chromium browser when visiting shady sites but stick to a Gecko-based browser for anything mainstream (including Lemmy).
I should probably also do all my banking on mobile and make my security settings on Proton Mail stricter.
Unfortunately Qwant is free. I really want to pay a one-off fee to remove ads but that’s not an option. It’s also less feature-rich than Kagi (can’t hide certain domains from search, for example). Also, it blocks me from using it whenever I set my VPN to singapore because they haven’t set up ads there yet.
What makes Qwant noteworthy is that it uses it’s own web-crawler. And unlike Mojeek this web-crawler is half-way decent, although it is weirdly common for pornography to come up. Most other search engines are based on either Google or Bing.
Needs Qwant search.
Just deleted my Facebook account. Now I just need any of my friends to install Threema (or maybe Revolt?).
I just finished my accounting course yesterday, but I’m not sure my assignments met the training guidelines so I’m hesitant to uninstall Windows if I may be asked to come back and redo some assignments (not sure I even need Windows for that though).
Reddit is still an issue, can’t find Twitter manga and de-Americaification advice on Lemmy.
YouTube I’ve reduced my engagement on but haven’t deleted. Discord I’m lurking in some essential group chats. Still on an 10-year old iPhone, gotta get a new open-source one. I’m sticking with Steam for games.
Welp, looks like I won’t be allowed into America. Oh no. How unfortunate.