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Recommended Jitsu requires only Chrome or Chromium. Yet, same article strongly discourages Chrome. And Apple iOS does not have Chromium either. :-/
Remember when Chrome (chromium) was a fork of Safari (webkit)?
Those are just a couple of examples. The OP is a list of arbitrarily selected and often not particularly valuable advice that leaves many holes. What do people see in it that they voted it to the front page?
I clicked this expecting some deep-dive ramble about moving all communications to Matrix, but this is actually a very concise and accessible guide. Now, I will admit I'm biased since I already follow all of these steps, but it seems really simple to me. In fact, the addition of the "Expected effort" bits makes me wonder if I could convince some friends to follow suit and at least switch to Firefox and DDG. OSM has pr…
[0] - https://osmand.net/
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Where is the world collectively on outlawing data brokers? If your business model revolves around selling people’s data without their consent, you’re a nuisance. Literally nobody would explicitly agree to have their data sold and used to bother them. We have plenty of laws against nuisance, because nuisance doesn’t benefit society. Why is it taking so long to ban this business model?
If you are a Californian, starting 2026 you will have a one-stop shop to opt out of all data brokers: https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/18/california_passes_bil...
I clicked this expecting some deep-dive ramble about moving all communications to Matrix, but this is actually a very concise and accessible guide. Now, I will admit I'm biased since I already follow all of these steps, but it seems really simple to me. In fact, the addition of the "Expected effort" bits makes me wonder if I could convince some friends to follow suit and at least switch to Firefox and DDG. OSM has pr…
Regarding usage of OpenStreetMap over Google Maps - assuming we're talking mobile usage - you might give OSMAnd[0] a try. I've been using it exclusively on a Pixel loaded with GrapheneOS for a few months now. I would never consider going back to GMaps and I don't feel that I've lost anything either. [0] - https://osmand.net/
As far as location maintenance, this is obviously correlated with usage, and so I hope this will improve over time.
I see very little progress on the other three.
Not mentioned: Removing your information from all social media / messengers : https://redact.dev (disclaimer, im on the team) Removing your information from all databrokers https://easyoptouts.com / incogni / deleteme / optery
If your phone gives Google a list of your GPS coordinates over the last 30 days that's your data and you can request that Google delete it. They don't care, because they've already used that to learn where you live, how often you go to bars, where you work, how often you go to the gym, and who you've been sleeping with. That's their data, not yours.
Data brokers don't care about deleting your data. Their data about your data is what they get paid for.
The harsh reality is privacy became a commodity, and due to overabundance it is relatively cheap. Even apparent competitors sell each other marketing data in this ecosystem. If you want to participate in the modern economy, than you need to assume there is never any isolation. Even creeps with phones will show up taking photos on private property, as some app paid them $5 to risk their lives trespassing. Mozilla Fire…
> The harsh reality is privacy became a commodity, Yep. Almost every CMP and privacy statement accidentally confirms that: "We value your privacy!" Yeah you value my privacy. You want to own it.
For example, what makes Firefox, Safari, and Brave ethical browsers but Edge and Chrome not?
Firefox development has undergone plenty of unethical decisions, and I'm not sure what even a distant justification for Safari being 'ethical' would be.
> “Delete cookies and site data when Firefox is closed“. I have adopted this for almost a year now. Once I learned that it is possible to bypass Windows login, I thought that if the agent could get access to my browser with all cookies in, he could easily impersonate me in every possible corner of my digital life. So, no thanks. I live in a place where you can get your laptop stolen at any moment. So in my case, the…
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If you are a Californian, starting 2026 you will have a one-stop shop to opt out of all data brokers: https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/18/california_passes_bil...
I'm thrilled. This cannot come soon enough.
It specifically exempts vertically integrated data brokers such as Google and Facebook.
In other words, if a data broker sells your data, and it is used for an ad auction run by a third party, that’s subject to the opt out.
If google uses your data to place bids on behalf of an advertiser in an auction that google runs and then places the ads using its own infrastructure, there is no opt out requirement.
If the second scenario sounds like it is prone to auction fraud and abuse of monopoly power, that’s because it is. Take a look at today’s DOJ testimony from a former Google exec.
(To be clear, I want a stronger, ideally opt-in, bill that applies equally to that entire industry, not one that picks winners based on lobbying and campaign donations.)