Metadata includes:

1. Who
2. When
3. Where
4. More?

For example, if we look at Whatsapp:

1. We know the sender and recipient(s) by phone number
2. Time and date of every message and how frequently
3. IP address (relative location)
4. Every phone number is probably tied to a Facebook identity, which includes online and/or offline information about you and all your friends

And that’s just if we take Facebook at its word

“They trust me. Dumb fucks” - Mark Zuckerberg, actually

In fairness

1. Mozilla pays their CEO a whole lot
2. The Fakespot acquisition:
   • Dumping a whole bunch of money into a third party add-on with a really bad privacy policy
   • The company modified their privacy policy right before the buyout, so Mozilla could own the data they had acquired. (old/new, see section 5C)
   • Mozilla is now testing out a version of their browser with the add-on built-in, increasing bloat unnecessarily

It’s like Vivaldi, if Vivaldi was actually open source

At least Opera has the distinction of having been a very different company back in the 90s when they maintained their own rendering engine entirely separate from the ones used by Microsoft, Netscape, run. They started back in the day when you would spend money on a web browser, and they stuck around for a while before finally becoming a shell of their former selves… And, ironically, a shell around Google’s WebKit/Blink rendering engine.

Brave partnered with a Washington DC based company to offer this VPN service to its users.

I don’t always use a VPN, but when I do, it’s as close to the White House as possible

That’s the same link as the one I posted 😅

My favorite Brave cope was a guy saying “you can just go to the system tools and remove the services”

Which, while technically true, is also true of malware

In privacy communities, for some reason the following two things are taken as gospel truth:

• Brave: the privacy browser with good defaults
• DuckDuckGo: the browser that once sent all your data to Microsoft

DDG’s biggest sin was failing to atone for their one mistake by not making a bunch more, so they would all run together and cancel each other out

Is this just the same thing as “typical” KYC or is it a different beast?

Nice to see I’m not the only member of the “clear and ongoing data breach” club. Surely this has to be legally actionable…

I have used the privacy.com masking service for a long time, and I prefer above its competitors.

The service is not good at hiding your transactions from, say, a government, but it’s sufficiently good at keeping your identity and money safe from rogue companies.

• When purchasing, the vendor does not get your bank account details, they get a disposable debit card number that you can set usage limits to; it is also restricted to the first vendor that uses it
• The bank does not get details about what company you are purchasing things from; all it knows is that money went to PrivacyCom.

This service has saved my butt before. Once, I tried purchasing an old DVD off a schedule website for a physical place. The purchase never went through, but I had a $200 attempted purchase for “sewing machine” to the same masked card. It failed, because I set a limit of roughly $30 to the card. Then a second charge, for $1, almost went through… Except, by this point, the card had been locked to “sewing machine” and the fraudulent charges were no longer able to start.

Of course, if another service comes along with similar features to Privacy, with a similar cost, and perhaps a couple extra features (for example, Privacy could use a better privacy policy)! I would go pretty quickly to the superior service. It’s a little unfortunate that the competition is relatively minimal in the USA.

Personally, I wouldn’t recommend having your passwords with your 2FA tokens anyway. The second factor should be something separated from the other factor, and if they’re both in the same place, I think that’s a problem.

Depends if you’re a white collar worker, probably.

How do you back up your phone if the screen is cracked and input has stopped working?

When you say SEO, do you mean that you can reliably get Kagi to operate in a way that works for you or your clients?

There could be a potential conflict of interest there, so could you clarify about how you’ve found it to be good? E.g. there’s a lot of sketchy practices in the SEO community, and returning the most accurate search results might be at odds with a company wanting to be at the top of a set of results, for example.

I only have a passing interesting in Kagi, BTW.

Right now, the only thing preventing them from collecting data is their word. And they don’t exactly have a good reputation for keeping their promises… or putting their money in good places.

The last things I’ve seen with Brave choosing where their money goes has included

1. Sponsoring a cryptocurrency gaming event that garnered almost no attention whatsoever
2. Their wallet partner Gemini getting sued by New York for $1.1 billion of fraud

The clearly have plenty of money, their software is being developed off the backs of giants (they defer to Google and Jitsi for the bulk of their work) and I don’t think throwing more money at them would be wise

Lemmy doesn’t say it has “a focus on speed and security,” call itself “simple, fast, secure,” or claim to have “the best security”

I pulled all those claims off the official Telegram Play Store description

Matrix was a real bear, but it was more difficult to get federation working than to get the server itself functional. In addition, there are a couple areas where you must make a choice correctly the first time.

I’ve never tried to host Revolt but I’m guessing it shouldn’t be any harder.

Except direct messages don’t reveal IP addresses.

See, their point was that IP address leaking was common sense, and that the average person should know better.

Except there is no reason to assume the average person would know better, if even the person criticizing them can’t accurately summarize the conditions that lead to IP address leaking.