Privacy

TL;DR: Mozilla is now enforcing data collection as a pre-requisite to access new features in Firefox Labs. This is backed by the Terms of Use that Mozilla introduced a few months ago.

Somewhat buried source that Newsweek is using: https://istories.media/en/stories/2025/06/10/telegram-fsb/

Just wanted to put this put this out there, especially because most get blocked. Altaddress.org, anyone else ever use it?

I am being forced into installing Life360 on my phone, which as you all probably know, is a massive privacy violation. Just by looking through the AppStore data page, lots of sensitive information gets shared with third parties. There’s got to be a way to disable it, and only enable it when necessary right? Or am I out of options here? Even though it’s only slightly less of a privacy risk, I’d prefer using Apple’s find my service, which has most of the features that Life360 has, while also being built in to every iOS device. How do I reason with this person?

Meta devised an ingenious system (“localhost tracking”) that bypassed Android’s sandbox protections to identify you while browsing on your mobile phone — even if you used a VPN, the browser’s incognito mode, and refused or deleted cookies in every session.

This is the process through which Meta (Facebook/Instagram) managed to link what you do in your browser (for example, visiting a news site or an online store) with your real identity (your Facebook or Instagram account), even if you never logged into your account through the browser or anything like that.

Meta accomplishes this through two invisible channels that exchange information:

(i) The Facebook or Instagram app running in the background on your phone, even when you’re not using it.

(ii) Meta’s tracking scripts (the now-pulled illegal brainchild uncovered last week), which operate inside your mobile web browser.

Seems if you scroll around shopping websites and look at the negative reviews you always see people saying things like "never worked at all" or "stopped working soon after".

It can't really be that involved to line a small enclosure with some metal fibers, can it?

A translation of this article with a few (minor additions). I could not find an English-language article. The original article has informative illustrations.

“Archive.Today” is a popular website for access to paid media content. Well-known domain names for the website are archive.is and archive.ph (and archive.md, archive.fo, archive.li, archive.vn).

What many users do not know: The website provides users' data to Russia.

The data goes to Mail.ru and thus to the Russian Internet company VK. A look at the website with Webbkoll shows the following Russian domain names:

• privacy-cs.mail.ru
• r.mradx.net
• rs.mail.ru
• top-fwz1.mail.ru

First and foremost, top-fwz1.mail.ru/js/code.js is integrated. Further code from Russia is then loaded.

The following applies to Russian Internet companies:

“Russia demands unconditional cooperation and extensive control options from its flourishing IT economy. It is not just about the full possession of the largest social network (VK) and the largest payment service (Mail.ru), but in the case of Yandex also to influence the entire output of Yandex News.

The data collected show which Paywall content is particularly popular in western media, but could also provide insight about their users. One can speculate about the importance of such data in the hybrid Russian war against Europe and the rest of the West.

(the following part is about the most common originating news sites in Switzerland that are to be archived. It refers to the above mentioned paywall content)

Incidentally (and in addition), anyone who pays for the paid media content must (also) expect for user data to go to Russia:

«Until recently, Ringier sent - thanks to these cookies - the IP addresses of "Blick" readers to the Russian tech company Yandex. […] Yandex is also listed at «20 Minuten». The free news portsal of the TX Group also works with the platform of the Interactive Advertising Bureau. […] The NZZ also sent data to the east. The traditional company on Falkenstrasse has integrated dozens of trackers, including from Yandex and also from Rutarget, an advertising company that belongs to the Russian Sberbank, is fully controlled by the state and is on the sanction list of the United States. »

The operators of «Archive.Today» do not open their identity. Neither an impressum nor a data protection declaration can be found on the website.

“Liberapay” in France should be able to say who operates “archive.today”. If you click on the "Donate" button at "Archive.Today", you will be forwarded to the donation platform "Liberapay".

A (more) reputable alternative is the Internet Archive at Archive.org, best known for the archiving of websites at web.archive.org.

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I'm aware this isn't the biggest smoking gun ever. But this particular service is in such widespread use that I feel it's important to shine a light on it.

Of course any post with certain keywords in the title will attract weird commentary, but I think you'll find that even the most contrary ones do not dispute the facts outlined in the article - just try to play them down, or ridicule them.

It's free, it has fast servers, it doesn't ask questions of you. It's a godsent!

Millions of Americans have downloaded apps that secretly route their internet traffic through Chinese companies, according to an investigation by the Tech Transparency Project (TTP), including several that were recently owned by a sanctioned firm with links to China’s military.

Wired is soft paywall. Subscribe, use Reader mode, Firefox (forks) with UBlock Origin, or clear cookies

via @[email protected]:

The #UnplugTrump series is now in English – spread the word and let it roll like a wave across the Fediverse! 🌊 👇

https://www.kuketz-blog.de/unplugtrump-free-yourself-digitally-from-trump-and-big-tech/

#UnplugTrump #privacy #security #GAFAM"

https://social.tchncs.de/@kuketzblog/114572938988438124

TL;DR: If you want to customize Firefox using Enterprise Polices, you can create customized policies via the handy Enterprise Policy Generator. You can also browse a collection of policies I created, available for download.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/34952846

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.today/post/29758710

Google is not entitled to my personal banking information or any other PII! WTF if I go to a store and want to buy I will.

I’ve noticed that more and more websites/services are blocking email alias services. Is the only solution to continue being able to use aliases is to buy a domain and make email aliases with that or are there any other solutions?

Anyone have a good blocklist for Roku on PiHole? The best one I've found is below, but it's not complete, and is regex, so doesn't update.

https://gist.github.com/ozankiratli/801ba17705e7f2a904d2e443af5a64f8#roku

If I use synology quickconnect service Am I putting my privacy in danger?

I made an educational open source game for small kids (2-6 yo) where they can match cute animals (currently sea creatures, dinosaurs, colours and fruit theme packs).

Features:

• cute pictures
• works on both a phone and a tablet
• multiple theme packs
• fully free, no tracking or anything
• there are multiple flavours, one of which bundles all of the assets and doesn't even have the permission to access the internet <- great if you're extra cautious
• big buttons, no reading necessary, small kids friendly

It can be downloaded both from GitHub and the Play Store.

Some screenshots

Let me know what you think!