Privacy Guides – Tools and Resources for Protecting Your Data

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The original was posted on /r/privacyguides by /u/Loxbey on 2023-06-09 05:22:43+00:00.

I do want to purchase a Pixel 4a and flash a custom rom onto it. I know that it's an old phone by todays standards but i just fell in love with the small size and all the design & feature choices. Now i want to figure out, which one would be the best choice especially with the 4a going out of support in August.

GrapheneOS is one of the best custom roms regarding privacy and security. Sadly the support for the 4a is also dropping on the official date.

Calyx is a good alternative for GrapheneOS and will provide security updates till February 2024

Copperhead will also drop support for the 4a but will also provide security updates "as much as they can".

The longest support available would be on lineageOS which sadly wont be the best regarding privacy and security.

Which one should i choose?

Any help appreciated

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The original was posted on /r/privacyguides by /u/KolideKenny on 2023-06-08 17:21:21+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/privacyguides by /u/AutoModerator on 2023-07-22 18:05:17+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/privacyguides by /u/RustyHanma on 2023-06-09 15:32:19+00:00.

With the new API pricing and Reddit boycott, the website will surely be a mess. I don't want to use reddit like I did before and I am thinking of self hosting reddit like software to help like minded people. While there are lot of pointers on Lemmy, it doesn't look like a privacy alternative.

Is it good to self host a privacy based site that works like reddit or is it not worth it at all.

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The original was posted on /r/privacyguides by /u/Mangon09 on 2023-06-09 20:00:56+00:00.

This was pretty recent but I recently went through a rough time and had some conversations with friends where I probably shared more than I should have. For some of them the chats did not save because neither of us saved them but there are 1 or 2 people that saved the entire chat on their end. I would ask them to delete it but its been a while and I don't want to bring up the topic again because I am embarrassed so I was wondering if there was a way to "unsave" or "delete" a chat that the other person has saved? I know it's not a super big deal but it just bothers me that they have a copy of the conversation and could one day share it with others if they so choose to. I like snapchat because the messages "disappear" more or less but because they saved it, they can always go back to it.

TLDR: Is there anyway to "unsave" or "delete" a chat that you sent to a friend that THEY saved?

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The original was posted on /r/privacyguides by /u/raulynukas on 2023-06-09 19:33:12+00:00.

hello.

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The original was posted on /r/privacyguides by /u/AutoModerator on 2023-06-21 22:22:17+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/privacyguides by /u/AutoModerator on 2023-06-20 21:31:08+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/privacyguides by /u/AutoModerator on 2023-06-20 19:27:55+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/privacyguides by /u/JonahAragon on 2023-06-19 20:17:03+00:00.

For our current subreddit subscribers: We are going to continue posting website and blog updates from contributors to the open-source privacyguides.org project here, and a few times a week we will highlight discussions happening on our Discourse and Kbin/Lemmy communities that we think you all will want to check out, and possibly post some other privacy-related links we think you'll find interesting.

We've had a pretty solid 10-ish year run of social media companies like Reddit being relatively stable platforms for communities to exist on, so I think it's easy to forget a few things:

1. Reddit is social media, with all of the privacy, ethical, and other concerns that are associated with that. Cutting it out of your life will be difficult, but I think we can make it through this :)
2. We really weren't particularly worse off before Reddit came around. Reddit is a glorified forum which provides some minor convenience features. Find some good, actual forums and lead the resurgence of the "old-school" internet again, in the long-term we'll all be better off.

It isn't impossible to teach new people about privacy and security without building communities on Reddit, Facebook, etc. Perhaps it will be slightly harder, but we're up for the challenge.

Thanks everyone, we hope to see you on more respectful platforms soon :)

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The original was posted on /r/privacyguides by /u/AutoModerator on 2023-06-19 20:03:23+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/privacyguides by /u/JonahAragon on 2023-06-15 04:38:43+00:00.

The "enshittification" of Reddit has begun, what is r/PrivacyGuides to do?

The most obvious problem we have is that by building a community here, we are encouraging future privacy-seekers to search the internet for and discover great advice on Reddit, a platform which now actively attempts to hinder them from making privacy-conscious decisions about how they access information online.

In the past we could count on Reddit as a reasonably-neutral gateway for sharing information, and hopefully connect people here with privacy information they're looking for.

It's very hard to imagine justifying the time that will now need to be spent on making this subreddit great and keeping the level of quality on par with what we've enjoyed over the past three years, with Reddit actively working against us and our moderation tooling as well.

So anyways... does this subreddit provide any value in remaining open anymore?

Current alternatives:

Privacy Guides is available on Kbin and Lemmy (the same ActivityPub-enabled federated community). We of course also host privacy discussions on our forum at https://discuss.privacyguides.net.

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The original was posted on /r/privacyguides by /u/CrunchyBanana11 on 2023-06-12 02:03:42+00:00.

I know streaming service and privacy may not go well together (considering collecting data of your listening activity is necessary to pay the artists), but which streaming service have you found to be the most privacy "respecting?"

I'm stuck between Apple Music, which from what I can see is a bit better than most, only thing is that you need an Apple ID; and Spotify, which requires pretty little information for signing up (I don't even think they ask for your name) and it would be pretty easy to use a pseudo-email and pay with gift cards).

Any thoughts?

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The original was posted on /r/privacyguides by /u/Mangon09 on 2023-06-12 00:12:26+00:00.

I have not used snapchat in a while but I used it mostly when I was a young teen so I have a lot of chats and things saved on there as well as pictures in memories that I am not too proud of. I would like to delete the whole app and get rid of all my personal information so that it is as if I never had snapchat.

I had friends that I used to talk to back then that have somehow been able to make their snapchat disappear, meaning when I look up their username they DONT show up and I can't see our past conversation because even typing their username word for word doesnt make them pop up. Does deleting your snapchat account do this? Or do I have to block everyone first and then delete my account so that people can't search me up?

Thank you.

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The original was posted on /r/privacyguides by [deleted] on 2023-06-11 22:51:55+00:00.

Been using Bitwarden for many years now, but unfortunately now that they has officially chosen their political stance, it's time to move on.

Obviously Lastpass is trash, and Keeper is not open source. I know a lot of people like Keepass, but it is incredibly inconvenient in comparison.

So does anyone know of another password manager, that is open source, works as a browser extension, works on Android, and also supports OTPs?

For reference if anyone cares:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitwarden/comments/146w8tu/vp\_of\_cybersecurity\_startup\_bitwarden\_fired\_for/

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The original was posted on /r/privacyguides by /u/Thedinotamer01 on 2023-06-11 21:22:06+00:00.

Since movetodon is down, what can I use instead?

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The original was posted on /r/privacyguides by /u/olliee100 on 2023-06-11 20:58:00+00:00.

I need proxies specifically for a task, my current ones have high fraud scores and this leads to problems for me, can I buy private proxies? Any providers that can beat fraud scores?

Thank you.

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The original was posted on /r/privacyguides by /u/Royal_Caribbean_Fan on 2023-06-11 19:44:39+00:00.

I only want to use It to pay for items, I won't link a bank account. I have few money in my card I've seen some people have problem with this. Sorry If this questions don't belong here, my apologies

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The original was posted on /r/privacyguides by /u/Foufi31 on 2023-06-11 18:04:19+00:00.

Hi, the question is in the title : any advise regarding a privacy frienldy music platform ?

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The original was posted on /r/privacyguides by /u/Rotelle on 2023-06-11 16:47:41+00:00.

i'm starting to think about online backups and icedrive seems like a pretty good value - $5 / month for 1TB and $18 / month for 5TB (with the price going down on year subs)

but i'm also wondering about the privacy of it specifically. the security i'm not too worried about since it'll be a backup anyway. if you don't already know

• you need to pay for the special 'encrypted' folder, but i'm fine with that
• if you lose your encryption key, you lose access to your encrypted folder and all if its contents. but... that means that icedrive doesn't know what's in it either, right? zero-knowledge encryption? so that's a good thing, right?
• i heard they scan file hashes but i'm not sure the details about that and if they scan the encrypted folder
• it's not open-source, but i wasn't able to find an open-source cloud storage service that also had a pretty good value in terms of cost / TB (especially while also having an android client- but long-term i'm not sure if that'll be required)
• it's in the UK which is in the 5 eyes, which i don't love - but how much does that matter for regular joes - isn't that sort of state sponsored thing moreso for people who are distributing things or are huge international wanted criminals? how much should that be in the threat model of average citizens?

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The original was posted on /r/privacyguides by /u/WeirdDetail9 on 2023-06-10 20:39:59+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/privacyguides by /u/Ben-and-Friends on 2023-06-10 19:22:52+00:00.

Hey there!

I was recently looking into setting up a Wealthsimple account until I read the TOU and Privacy Policy. Not sure if I trust them with any information.

I found 4 sections that caused concern. 1 From the TOU and 3 from the Privacy Policy. They are as follows:

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(from Terms of Use) "We reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to modify, alter or otherwise update these terms and conditions at any time and you agree to be bound by such modifications, alterations or updates."

Does this mean that they could technically change this agreement to say anything, without limitation? That's more than I'm willing to sign up for.

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(the following 3 points are from the Privacy Policy)

• We limit the use of your personal information.
• de-identifying your information by removing personal identifiers such as your name, address and account numbers. This information may be aggregated and anonymized so that it cannot be used to identify individuals, and then used for analytics and reporting, developing and improving our products and services, and identifying trends and insights that may be of value to us and our clients;

How anonymous is my data at this point? Do I need to worry about it being "re-identified" and used for something else?

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• We collect and use information about your visit to our website or use our apps.
• Analytics: We may use third parties, including Google Analytics, to help us gather and analyze information about the areas visited on the Websites in order to better understand, evaluate and improve the user experience and the convenience of the Websites.

Is only my activity on the regular website monitored by Google or is it all activity? If that's the case, would that mean Google is analyzing my trading of stocks, withdraws/deposits, what stocks I'm looking at, etc.?

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We use online advertising.

We may use third parties such as ad exchanges and data companies to serve our advertisements in the App, on our Websites or other websites. These companies may use cookies, tracer tags or web beacons to report certain information about your visits to our App, the Websites and other websites (such as web pages you visit and your response to ads) in order to measure the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns and to deliver ads that are more relevant and tailored to you, both on and off our Websites.

Does this mean that 3rd party ad exchange companies are collecting information about me while I'm using the platform?

Trying to find a good stock brokerage that also values the privacy of it's users is an overwhelming task to say the least. If this clearly looks like a privacy nightmare, I could use some recommendations for privacy centered trading platforms (preferably something with no/low commission trades).

TL;DR Wealthsimple's TOU and Privacy Policy look concerning; Need help with discerning if it is private or recommendation for stock brokerages that are privacy focused.

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The original was posted on /r/privacyguides by /u/NeuroticFreak on 2023-06-10 19:05:41+00:00.

Let's suppose that the government can monitor my Internet search. If I use a vpn no-log such as Mullvald VPN or ProtonVPN, is it enough to hide my activity from them? Or do I need to take the "hard-way" that is whonix + tor?

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The original was posted on /r/privacyguides by /u/HelloDownBellow on 2023-06-10 16:29:51+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/privacyguides by /u/thepra on 2023-06-10 14:55:59+00:00.

If you ever found a private service provider(there's no automatic or explicit public facing content) what are the features or ethics in place that made you like it?