Christoph Schmees

@tek @technology
A video about Digital Sovereignty on, er, YouTube? 🤢

@CaptObvious @OnePhoenix
Don’t put all eggs in one basket?

@imkali @CaptObvious
“nothing like Gmail”? Well, we have AOL, Outlook.com, Yahoo.
Suggestions: mailbox.org, posteo, tuta, proton, lavabit.com.
https://www.pc-fluesterer.info/wordpress/vorbeugen/e-mail/e-mail-provider/

@CaptObvious
No, not “for the asking” but only on court order. And they even challenge those, see transparency report.
And targeted advertising be the lesser evil? I beg to differ.
Google combines everything they know from tracking you. And that’s a lot if you don’t fight against it. I for one had two evil experiences with them: (German):
https://www.pc-fluesterer.info/wordpress/vorbeugen/e-mail/e-mail-und-privatsphaere/ (further links inside).
And you have nothing to hide?
Oh well.

@CaptObvious @throws_lemy
“Seem”? An utterly wrong perception.
Does Proton
- read all contents of all emails (sent and received) and exploit them for targeted advertising?
- collect the metadata (who corresponds with whom)? and exploits …?

The answer is: NO.

@boredsquirrel
https://social.tchncs.de/@PC_Fluesterer/112424000588385051

@fmstrat @boredsquirrel
There is already: NoScript and predefined lists. Or Pi-Hole.

@xnx @KLISHDFSDF
s/sadly/naturally/
With Apple you get tracking and surveillance built-in. The Android world has clean custom-ROMS.
https://www.aalto.fi/en/news/keeping-your-data-from-apple-is-harder-than-expected
https://proton.me/blog/iphone-privacy
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/10/accused-raccoon-malware-developer-fled-ukraine-after-russian-invasion/

@Denalduh @spiritedpause
But that is not FOSS and it contains 3 (three) trackers from Google!

@Gooey0210 @promitheas
Maybe try NO versions of Facebook

@electro1 @promitheas

I would suggest to ditch #META for good.

@deFrisselle @ForgottenFlux Perhaps #GrapheneOS (and other #custom-rom) is too secure? Because it prevents surveillance. Just thinking. 😉

@filister @ininewcrow
That’s right, no double standards.
Ban TikTok AND ban #META entirely!

@iturnedintoanewt @otter Yeah, that must be the famous “price for progress”. 😜

@noodlejetski @LWD “one of the best phones”? I beg to differ. Are they produced fair? No. Is the battery user-replaceable? No. Does anyone have control over the proprietary BLOBs still necessary? NO!

@peregus @hellfire103 Yes and no. Yes: Some poorly programmed websites require JS. No: Nonetheless you can employ NoScript to fine-grained block JS from evil domains. No harm is done when you allow the main domain (if necessary) but block crap such as doubleclick or google-analytics as “not trustworthy” (NoScript language).

@N0x0n @LWD Or get rid of Android completely and install a clean Custom-ROM.

@Kata1yst @Blaze But someone has to collect all the data so that NSA& Co. can buy it. 😎

@Antiochus @Sal Graphene or any clean Custom-ROM is a waste of time if you intend to use Whatsapp or any of META, TikTok and the like. https://medium.com/@TalBeerySec/hi-meta-whatsapp-with-privacy-6d646c5aa3bc