they’re not doing it to get you to turn it back on, but your mom who you turned it off for. drives me mad how often I have to redisable privacy nightmares everytime my mom asks me to help her with her phone.

VPN + DeGoogled Privacy Android ROM would be the most practical. That way you should br free from most if not all cross device tracking.

In general having a seperate device for that stuff makes total sense.

Get some sort of device that is compatible with CalyxOS or GrapheneOS, like an older Pixel

not sure what would be best to handle verification.

You also have to be careful to use totally new accounts for everything on this new device, different number, different email, different device, different sim etc

the only thing that can really stop it IMO is mainstreaming decentralized social media and messaging services.

You’d need to effectively replace Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, Whatsapp etc… The only thing that totally keeps us from 1984 is that all these platforms for now have decided to be relatively free and impartial (compared to how bad it could be). But that could change at any time if the powers that be decide to on a whim. They could completely ban all privacy, pacificsm or any kind of political opposition tomorrow.

why do they even care? they get to sell more power

yeah it will with that attitude

lmao that’s crazy cynical. manifesting a divorce

LibreWolf or Brave. I use Brave personally, it’s okay

I don’t understand how everyone can be so blind to the surveillance that already exists.

Literally all your communications or purchase or browsing history, 90% of people’s photos and contacts, everything you ever say near your phone/smart devices, your health data with devices like fitbit, cm resolution spy satelites, 4D maps of the entire globe being created via services like Pokemon Go, phones create and store in the cloud high resolution 3D maps of your face, mesh networked devices like Alexa now surveil without you even having internet access, your home and your exact location down to a meter are already being live spied on. Not to mention full remote access to all your devices.

Sometimes with a thin veneer of privacy on top of it, like Apple pretends to have.

Basically the only part of you that the surveillance state doesn’t constantly surveil already is your butthole.

Even avoiding just 10% of this surveillance in your daily life is almost impossible.

If you have that threat level, I hope you are already protecting yourself against spying on your web searches. With no protections, you could easily become a target by just looking any of these things up.

I don’t think the tools on privacytools.io fit your requirements (maybe globaleaks) but this site is a good start

https://www.privacytools.io/blogs https://www.privacytools.io/private-hosting https://www.privacytools.io/secure-whistleblower

Also some of the privacy messengers here (like Briar) have blogging/forum features similar to Telegram, but you can’t access them via a browser, so you would have to get everyone to install those apps:

https://www.privacytools.io/privacy-messaging

But realistically speaking like the others suggested: Tor, I2P, Zeronet, etc…

Every Linux user has to go through a period of compulsive distro hopping. Don’t worry, eventually you’ll grow tired of it and just settle on one workhorse distro.

How long until CPUs and GPUs just merge into one thing

It is kind of interesting how open machine learning already is without much explicit advocacy for it.

It’s the only field I can think of where the open version is just a few months behind SOTA in all of IT.

Open training pipelines and open data are the only aspects that could still use improvements in ML, but there are plenty of projects that are near-SOTA and fully open.

ML is extremely open compared to consumer mobile or desktop apps that are always ~10 years behind SOTA

Congratulations 🤠🥾er

There is nothing that bugs me more than the intentional enshittification of mobile websites/apps.

I don’t want all your shitty apps.

Why do I need an app on mobile, but the website works fine in desktop mode?

Why do mobile browsers even allow shitty sites like Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest to forbid you to save images.

I wouldn’t even care, if every second image search result wasn’t one of these horrible sites.

I think you are looking at work horse distros, like Ubuntu, Fedora, etc… That by now are heavily used for productive work, not personal use. So they favor stability and minor quality of life improvements over shiny new updates.

There’s plenty shiny new cutting edge distros out there that are innovating, e.g. Nix, Silverblue, VanillaOS, all the container focused ones CoreOS, Container OS, Flatcar Container Linux and probably dozens more newer ones I am not aware of .

well well well, the archiver becomes the archivee

You could try Molly if you don’t like Signal

That’s cool, but seems kind of pointless, considering you can be easily reasonably deanonymized if your relatives take a DNA test. It doesn’t address the main issue of your genetic information being used commercially.

I think the safest bet would be to get a PhD in medical genetics and manually go through your data base pair by base pair