Political Custard

If anyone knows how to get the beta without having to join the beta programme on Google Play please let me know; my phone is degoogled. They do have an apk on their site but it’s not the beta.

User content from Reddit? It’s barely worth looking at for free…

Tuta, I’ve had an account with them for years. Since the end of 2023 Proton Mail dropped off my list because of its funding for Bellingcat.

https://propagandainfocus.com/proton-mail-imperialist-stooge/

Proton, known for its privacy-centric email service Proton Mail, announced at the end of 2023 that it would help raise money for controversial group Bellingcat, a documented proxy British intelligence operation, through its annual Lifetime Account Charity Fundraiser.

Use a service like IronVest that gives you masked email addresses, masked (virtual) credit cards, and a masked phone number. $39/year $6/month. There might be better cheaper alternatives. https://ironvest.com/

Wow, that’s amazing, It’s huge! A staggering amount of work has gone into that, well done!

I would say “yes”. I have a rooted Android and it was very easy for me to download and install the software required to scan cards. I did this as an experiment only, I only used this on my own cards to see what information I could get off them from just passing my phone near to them. After doing that I have always used a shielded card holder.

I also never have NFC or Bluetooth running unless I’m actively using it.

I did think about this but a mail service like Proton is going to attract proportionately more attention from the authorities because its users are going to be made up primarily of people who are more privacy/security focused (perhaps with something to hide) so having user numbers is not going to be that helpful in terms of doing a comparison. Also Google has a bit of a fake account problem, and a lot of people have a Google account only to enable them to access Google services (Android, Google Docs), and some people have multiple Google accounts.

Tangentially related information… this post led me to check on how many data requests Google receives from law enforcement (internationally). The answer is about 420,000 requests in 2023 (if you take the most recent data from Q1 and Q2 2023 and double it).

Ref: https://www.statista.com/statistics/273501/global-data-requests-from-google-by-federal-agencies-and-governments/

xBroswerSync - https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.xBrowserSync.android/

There’s not an extension but there is an app (available as apk or from F-Droid/Google Play). The app contains all your bookmarks and easily searchable, you click on the bookmark and it opens in whatever your default browser is, in my case it’s Fennec. Not as easy as just typing in the search bar in the browser but it’s a small cost for not having a Mozilla account (I’ve nothing against Mozilla but the fewer big organisations who have my data, the better).

I started using Librewolf a few days ago and they recommend xBroswerSync in their very short list of recommended addons. This has been working fine for me although sometimes all my bookmarks disappear but that soon sorts itself out after a sync.

Recommended addons page: https://librewolf.net/docs/addons/

I get one about once-a-week, I just block and report as spam. There’s no automatic option that I’ve seen. I wish there was; my parents use Signal and I worry about them getting scammed. Thankfully they are good with asking me if they get something that’s out of the ordinary.

I like TechLore: https://odysee.com/@techlore:3

Oh, and…

Rob Braxman: https://odysee.com/@RobBraxmanTech:6