WhyJiffie

the service normally does not require registration or login, neither any kind of payment, and they don't run ads.
however, their public instance, meet.jit.si, got restricted a year or so ago because apparently bad people were using it for bad reasons. now a single participant is required to log in with a google account or something else they offer.

there were also many public instances. but soon a lot of them closed too, and the public lists have disappeared, so I believe jitsi did not do what they did out of data hunger.
there's still a few that doesn't require any kind of account, if you're interested I can send a link in PM. It's better if you don't publish it either.

oh and if it tells anything. if you have heard about matrix.org, they were using jitsi for calls for a long time. they have switched to an in-house solution to have better platform integration, but it was fine

I love the or in this sentence

here's my newest invention, zero knowledge location privacy without snarks.

app on phone periodically checks location. if home is near, it triggers home related actions instead of uploading the location to anywhere.

now, where is the nearest patent office? /s

you shouldn't block them by MAC. you should put them on a VLAN dedicated to cams, with no route to the internet. only computer connected to it is your NVR

did you try jitsi?

257 MB?? why?

scraping bots are expected to visit it, nowadays more than in previous years. a few of them are search engines, but there's a lot of scraping for AI training, both on text and image data.

most crypto is useless and practically a scam, it's a rabbit hole in itself to find a worthy one. paying for vpn with crypto only helps if you use an untraceable crypto

if I would recommend one, it's Monero, because it's private by default and untracable, but nobody should believe me without doing their own research. I mean it.

¯\(ツ)/¯

don't forget that the new outlook app right out steals the login details to your email accounts, along with all emails you will send and receive even after uninstalling that malware:

https://proton.me/blog/outlook-is-microsofts-new-data-collection-service

if the burner phone is a cheap smartphone, it could still be helpful

yeah they are pretty good apps! basically a must-have for protests, if you bring a smartphone. maybe for traveling too, in case it's stolen