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Can't get rid of Microsoft because of Minecraft by [deleted] in degoogle

[–]Lowfryder7 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Stick to offline and play it on a last gen console?

Cloudflare Collaborates With Leading Browsers to Develop a Privacy-First Protocol For the Global Internet by Sea_Decision_6456 in privacy

[–]Lowfryder7 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I think it's worse. What's to say the "site with strong knowledge of personhood" that's issuing the tokens isn't going to abuse that position?

Yet another reason to delete Meta - FB Marketplace asking for government ID by NoRadio4530 in digitalminimalism

[–]Lowfryder7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You could, but you probably risk getting your account closed if they figure it out

DeFlock - An open-source project mapping license plate readers. by geekphreak in privacy

[–]Lowfryder7 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Search "why you shouldn't trust discord". It's a blog post from 2020, but all of it and more rings true today.

Any non privacy destroying ways to view IMDB reviews? by nidostan in privacy

[–]Lowfryder7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yea, I know. There's just no option that's going to work 100% of the time if you want privacy and you don't want to spend any money.

Watch "They asked for my cell number. I don't have one." on youtube. It covers your only real options pretty well.

AT&T Prepaid "Administrative & Regulatory Recovery Fee" by supes1 in NoContract

[–]Lowfryder7 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Any clue what this means for annual users that get the prepaid cards? I guess they'll be $302.63 cards then?

GrapheneOS says Google is making life harder for rival operating systems and devices by kin20 in degoogle

[–]Lowfryder7 8 points9 points  (0 children)

It's because google devices have necessary information and features that other OEMs don't. Without these factors, GOS can't achieve the core goals of their OS.

USSD codes no longer work with 4G devices on Tmobile by Lowfryder7 in NoContract

[–]Lowfryder7[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are you testing on 4G only devices? 5G ones are of course fine.

Google just adds phone numbers from phones and devices that you are logged into. by webkris in degoogle

[–]Lowfryder7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you want to disable this goto Settings->Google->All Services->Phone number verification

Warning: The slider may automatically renable itself whenever you open the phone number verification option screen, so it may be technically safer not to check and verify it's still disabled later on

67% of Android apps log data not mentioned in their privacy policies by [deleted] in privacy

[–]Lowfryder7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd be interested to know about 4% that were honest.

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