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Email alias indeed helps to avoid spam and helps you to assume separate identity per site, but won’t help in any way to stop mail provider/server from processing your email data for user profiling / targeted ad purpose.
Buying email domain and self-hosting is only the full proof way from privacy POV, but it is really difficult target to accomplish. A privacy respecting email hosting + alias should be next ideal choice, IMO.
2·9 months agoTrue, but till the transition completes (if it ever), these privacy frontends are quite handy tool to view content of those services.
I heavily use LibReddit to follow certain Subreddits, although I now mostly frequent Lemmy.
Same as that happened to Bibliogram earlier – a cat-n-mouse game between Dev and API owner.
The post is about Nextcloud self-hosted file storage as an open source replacement for One Drive which is deeply integrated with MS Teams. For those, who can’t replace MS Teams with FOSS equivalent for whatever reason, can at least stop relying on One Drive for file storage solution.
And, for your information, Nextcloud does offer 1:1 and group chat solution[1], which is an open source replacement for MS Teams.
You are essentially sharing a file link via MS Teams.
Instead of keeping the actual file on OneDrive, it is hosted on your own (Nextcloud) server. Sorry but how it leads to privacy issue?
Nextcloud[1] is an open source and self-hostable SaaS product.
Instead of using OneDrive and Google Drive (and similar proprietary solutions), Nextcloud is a better solution from Privacy POV, IMO.
And, here come typical response -
telecom operators have informally shared with the department that the leaked information claimed in the ClouSEK report seems to be a compilation of old data sets of telecom subscribers and it is not due to any vulnerability in their system."
Request: Your IP > Apple (1st) relay node > 3rd party (2nd) relay node > Website
Response: Your IP < Apple (1st) relay node < 3rd party (2nd) relay node < Website
Whoever has access to both relay nodes, can easily track you end-to-end.
As for Apple, they claim the 1st relay node is owned by them, and 2nd relay node is owned by 3rd party. (Source: https://www.apple.com/icloud/docs/iCloud_Private_Relay_Overview_Dec2021.pdf)
In theory, it should not be a privacy concern because -
- Website will see the request coming from 2nd relay node’s IP.
- 2nd relay node will see the request is coming from Apple (1st) relay node’s IP.
- So, only Apple knows your IP.
The really powerful thing about Facebook ads is in your ability to layer targeting options on top of one another, gradually making your audience more and more specific. An extreme (and hilarious) example of the power of hypertargeting was featured in AdWeek last year, when a marketing pro targeted his roommate with ads so specific the poor guy thought he was being cyberstalked.
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I’m afraid that protection might not last long.
sold ad analytics
Do you still the have the link to news article where it was reported?
Earlier I was using Pi-Hole on my network then switched to AdGuard Home (not same as AdGuard DNS) as it is an open source product with in-built DOH support (yes, I can setup Pi-Hole to do the same, but that’s an extra manual configuration) and Privacy Guide seems to recommend it over Pi-hole. After reading your post, I tried to lookup more about it. Nothing on Wiki. Closest thing is this. If the allegations are true then I need to switch back to Pi-Hole.
If installing extension is not an option for you -
- You can open https://snowflake.torproject.org/ (or https://relay.love/) on a tab,
- scroll down to ‘Leave this browser tab open or embed a web badge on your website’ section
- toggle ‘Enabled’ button
- and leave the browser running.
- Note: Browser needs to have WebRTC enabled to make it work.
I’m personally running Snowflake container on docker on my little Raspberry pi 24/7. And, yes, in 2023 most of the connection to my bridge was from Iran.
Yes, Temporary/Disposable email account is strictly for one time use.
What about https://haveibeenpwned.com ?
I think it depends on headphone model/setup.
My Sennheiser Momentum 3 by default only look for devices that were paired up in the past.
It goes to (forced) discovery/pairing mode only when I press a specific button on headset manually.
Check manual of your headset for similar setup.
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It’s a sell and not leak of data. It’s actually called Server to Server (S2S) tracking.
https://tinuiti.com/blog/data-privacy/server-to-server-tracking/
Ah! I was not aware of the fact that Alias service can encrypt email before forwarding to actual mailbox.