Privacy

I didn't know my city was cool enough to put signal flyers.

Visa is rolling out new technology that will allow the payments giant to share more information about customers' preferences [non-paywalled source] based on their shopping history with retailers as it seeks to remain a top player in the competitive e-commerce space. From a report:...

It has finally happened...not surprised though.

It's not quite enough for me, personally, but this is a small step in the right direction....

Firefox’s Enhanced Tracking Protection (Strict Mode) is known to cause issues on x.com...

Why most services that want to protect user privacy. Also those on privacyguides, don't have anonymous payment methods like cryptocurrencies? I pay for a few such services like email or cloud etc. but I don't know if it makes sense if my bank knows I'm using it anyway so they can sell that info to advertisers, gov, etc. In EU...

cross-posted from: https://lemy.lol/post/25062075

I have my personal blog, made with Hugo and hosted on GitHub pages. Initially I did not turn on any kind of web tracking / web analytics, because I do not like tracking at all. But I want to make my blog better and to achieve it, I need a feedback loop about traffic. For example, what are the most popular publications, or how...

I discovered this recently, I think it's a fork of Lineage? Some stuff they list is already part of Lineage but some seems extra...

Title says it all--a fellow bricoleur just turned me on to the No Trace Project and I'm curious to know if anyone else here has looked into it and the quality of the information therein. Thanks in advance!

I miss the days of VHS and DVD shelfs in homes, for example. If you bought the tapes and had them in your home, no corporate entity could alter those tapes without your consent, monitor how many times you watch them, sell your data to whomever they please without your knowledge, roll out new mandatory conditions to a 'user...

Is it just me or do Instagram videos loaded via Pixwox always buffer for you too?

cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/13793778...

Does 4chan respects user privacy? How much data are they collecting? Are they selling/sharing it with 3rd parties? I'm asking because it's not possible to post anonymously (each individual post being anonymous without your username visible) on lemmy, and users here told me I could check out 4chan for this feature....

Happy Net Box is an experimental internet social experience based on the arcane and near-forgotten retro internet protocol known as FINGER....

This is probably not the right community but I haven't found a better one....

I have been pro privacy and anti data harvesting for many years now, however it is becoming increasingly more difficult staying off some platforms. Mostly Meta....

Hi, I was planning to encrypt my files with GPG for safety before uploading them to the cloud. However, from what I understand GPG doesn't pad files/do much to prevent file fingerprinting. I was looking around for a way to reliably pad files and encrypt metadata for them but couldn't find anything. Haven't found any...

I've been feeling uneasy about the privacy implications of using Lemmy and similar platforms. The ability for anyone to view your entire posting history feels to me like publicly sharing my browser history. In contrast, most other social media platforms allow you to limit your feed visibility to just friends or followers....