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Blacklight – The Markup (themarkup.org)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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A Real-Time Website Privacy Inspector

Who is peeking over your shoulder while you work, watch videos, learn, explore, and shop on the internet? Enter the address of any website, and Blacklight will scan it and reveal the specific user-tracking technologies on the site—and who’s getting your data. You may be surprised at what you learn.

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GitHub - awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted: A list of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted on your own servers (github.com)
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Google Search is an illegal monopoly — what happens now? (www.theverge.com)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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A federal judge has ruled that Google has an illegal monopoly in the US. “The market reality is that Google is the only real choice” as the default search engine, Judge Amit Mehta said in his decision, and he determined it had gotten that way unfairly. It’s a ruling that could portend big changes for the company, but we yet don’t know how big, and we might not for years.

Mehta declared on Monday that Google was liable for violating antitrust laws, vindicating the Department of Justice and a coalition of states that sued the tech giant in 2020. The next step — deciding on remedies for its illegal conduct — begins next month. Both parties must submit a proposed schedule for remedy proceedings by September 4th and then appear at a status conference on September 6th.

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Clarification Update on Intel Core 13th/14th Gen Desktop Processor Support Process (community.intel.com)
Intel confirms no recall for Raptor Lake CPUs, microcode won’t fix affected units in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 months ago (17 children)

Yes, but then who will dare to buy from them in future?

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Intel confirms no recall for Raptor Lake CPUs, microcode won’t fix affected units (videocardz.com)
Google Chrome is no longer 'deprecating third-party cookies' in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Care to share the proof that Mozilla sells user data to anyone?

Google Chrome is no longer 'deprecating third-party cookies' in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

Firefox’s stance on privacy, like Apple’s, is to some extent branding

Some of the recently introduced Privacy related features -

  • Enhanced Tracking Protection
  • Total Cookies protection
  • Browser Fingerprint protection
  • DNS Over HTTPS support
  • Encrypted Client Hello (ECH) support
  • Continued Manifest v2 support
  • Copy URL without tracking parameter
  • Protection against redirect tracking
  • In-Built on-device translation

(Further options to harden Firefox via user.js or via about:config)

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Google Chrome is no longer 'deprecating third-party cookies' (9to5google.com)
Microsoft says it won't let you use Mail & Calendar app on Windows 11 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 39 points 4 months ago (8 children)

I moved to Mozilla Thunderbird long ago https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/

Windows 11 is now automatically enabling OneDrive folder backup without asking permission in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Uninstall OneDrive, problem solved.

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Apple and Google won’t be able to stop third-party app stores in Japan (www.theverge.com)
ChatGPT consumes 25 times more energy than Google in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago

Well, since when Silicon Valley cared about environment or Global warming? It's all about $ always.

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Full scan of 1 cubic millimeter of brain tissue took 1.4 petabytes of data, equivalent to 14,000 4K movies — Google's AI experts assist researchers (www.tomshardware.com)
Google Cloud accidentally deletes a financial institution account due to ‘unprecedented misconfiguration’ in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Money and Time – It's rather easier/cheaper for Organizations nowadays to outsource a part of infra to Cloud service providers.

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FCC votes to restore net neutrality (www.theverge.com)
YouTube puts third-party clients on notice: Show ads or get blocked in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago (12 children)

I’ve Invidious hosted on my Little Raspberry Pi 4, and using it’s WPA app on every device I got.

Zero ad + Decent UI + Access to highest video quality

https://invidious.io/

X’s Premium users can no longer hide their blue checks in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Could not they just use URL redirection instead?

Privacy focused email recommendation in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Ah! I was not aware of the fact that Alias service can encrypt email before forwarding to actual mailbox.

Privacy focused email recommendation in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (3 children)

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.

GitHub - mendel5/alternative-front-ends: Overview of alternative open source front-ends for popular internet platforms (e.g. YouTube, Twitter, etc.) in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

True, 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.

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GitHub - mendel5/alternative-front-ends: Overview of alternative open source front-ends for popular internet platforms (e.g. YouTube, Twitter, etc.) (github.com)
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Sendent for MS Teams: Integrating Nextcloud and Microsoft Teams - Nextcloud (nextcloud.com)
 

The new add-in integrates Nextcloud with Microsoft Teams, allowing users to effortlessly share files and folders stored on their private Nextcloud server directly from the Teams user interface.

This effectively replaces OneDrive (and similar proprietary solutions) with Nextcloud, IMO.

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Microsoft Edge's latest AI tool sends open websites to Microsoft - gHacks Tech News (www.ghacks.net)
 

The main idea behind it is to improve the creation of tab groups for the user. The process is automated when the feature is used, which means that you do not have to create tab groups manually anymore and put tabs into them.

Edge sends information about all open websites to a Microsoft server when the option is selected. The AI processes the request then on the server and returns its suggestions after a moment.

While the automatic tab group creation features of Edge and Chrome look useful, privacy conscious users may want to skip those and create tab groups manually instead.

Having your entire list of open websites submitted to a company server without really knowing what is done with it and how it is stored outweighs the convenience of the feature.

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