jonaharagon

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by jonaharagon 5mo ago
Reading the actual text of the bill, it seems like a first-boot date of birth prompt and everything else you’ve described is exactly what the bill is asking for actually.
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Privacy Guides: Memory Integrity Enforcement Changes the Game on iOS(privacyguides.org)
1 points by jonaharagon 1y ago|0 comments
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Ghosts in the Machine: The Fight for Privacy After Death(privacyguides.org)
4 points by jonaharagon 1y ago|0 comments
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by jonaharagon 1y ago
True, and this is also the case in many other countries. Even if it is revocable by future legislation though, having pro-privacy laws on the books to prevent the current executive powers-that-be from abusing them would still be helpful.
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by jonaharagon 1y ago
I mean that'd certainly be nice, and it is also their only job, but even if they wanted to do it in regular legislation that'd be better than nothing. Make a law that says companies have to protect the data of their citizens wit
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by jonaharagon 1y ago
Realistically the EU only cares about protecting their citizens from private companies, and especially American ones. When it comes to government overreach they know virtually no bounds. Then the US on the other hand does decently protect
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by jonaharagon 1y ago
I shared your comment with the author and we're going to reorder some of the sentences in a little bit to highlight the fact it's a backdoor earlier. We've talked about Chat Control so much over so many years (because it keep
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by jonaharagon 1y ago
> They start outlawing encryption altogether? This is the direction places like the UK have gone in, yes. Can't decrypt something? Then we assume it is illegal content.
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by jonaharagon 1y ago
> Do they think they're above it? Yes, the lawmakers literally exempt themselves from this law in this law.
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by jonaharagon 1y ago
Totally. This is exactly the problem with things like Chat Control in the EU and KOSA in the US. They will just introduce the same bill over and over and over again until they get the desired result. What we need is for legislatures to pass
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by jonaharagon 1y ago
You can disable purchase sharing and still do subscription sharing, which completely solves this problem.
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Privacy Is Also Protecting the Data of Others(privacyguides.org)
9 points by jonaharagon 2y ago|0 comments
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by jonaharagon 2y ago
This post is 3 years old and mostly talking about a completely different website, because the poster didn’t know privacyguides.org moved to a new domain after the old one was hijacked. https://www.reddit.com/r/PrivacyGu
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by jonaharagon 2y ago
We cover that too [0]. In addition, while I wouldn't blanket recommend a VPN usually, it's important to use a VPN in conjunction with Mullvad Browser (specifically). If you're not blending in with a crowd of similar browsers
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by jonaharagon 2y ago
Most are, most are affiliate link-farms in disguise as well, and privacyguides.org is written in response to such guides. It is called privacy guides and not security guides for a reason, and many of our basic "recommendations" ar
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by jonaharagon 2y ago
We don't have a deal with Brave. It was added almost 3 years ago, and nobody has even proposed removing it in the time since. Furthermore, it would be insane and likely illegal for a public charity to strike a deal to serve an undiscl
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Proton Wallet Review: Is Proton Losing Touch?(privacyguides.org)
3 points by jonaharagon 2y ago|1 comments
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by jonaharagon 2y ago
> The Apple system was pretty much the best way this could be done This may be true, and yet it's also true that it was still a terrible plan. This is exactly why it simply shouldn't be done at all.
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by jonaharagon 2y ago
I've always worried that Proton might succumb to the enshittification that seems to eventually plague all tech companies. This news makes me a lot more optimistic that won't be the case.
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by jonaharagon 3y ago
Yeah, that is interesting to me. I would imagine one of the main reasons people have been asking for alternative browser engine support in the first place is the potential to have more features added to PWAs by competing platforms, since th
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by jonaharagon 3y ago
I didn’t realize hitting the “join” button on a new subreddit was an insurmountable obstacle for some.
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by jonaharagon 3y ago
> How am I supposed to contribute to a NoDerivatives project? I don’t understand this question, like literally how? The process has not changed. The FSF recommends CC BY-ND for works which state a viewpoint (opinion) to avoid being misqu
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by jonaharagon 3y ago
I assume this is satirical, but the other comments on this thread taking it seriously have me confused. This has already existed in the form of spam WordPress blogs[1] for years now anyways. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by jonaharagon 7y ago
It "misses the point" in the sense that it wasn't what the article was about at all, I suppose. Ultimately the point was that people need to be aware of VPN reviewer's practices, it is definitely not encouraging the use
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by jonaharagon 7y ago
The problem with a lot of these affiliate sites (which I alluded to in the conclusion of the article but perhaps didn't spend quite enough time on) is that they provide a small disclosure of their relationships in their footer or in th
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by jonaharagon 7y ago
We totally agree :) For the vast majority of (non-Torrenting related) use-cases it makes far more sense from a privacy and security perspective. I even wrote a little guide on it: https://blog.privacytools.io/self-hosting-a-