this post was submitted on 23 Aug 2023
54 points (88.6% liked)
Privacy
31975 readers
226 users here now
A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.
Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.
Some Rules
- Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn't great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post
- Don't promote proprietary software
- Try to keep things on topic
- If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
- Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience
- Be nice :)
Related communities
Chat rooms
-
[Matrix/Element]Dead
much thanks to @gary_host_laptop for the logo design :)
founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Yes, I did start using PIped and Invidious on my browser and installed Newpipe in my phone. Tho there are some drawbacks, it is much better than using Youtube directly after I heard about them planning to block adblockers and removing recommendations for signed in users with watch history off.
Great, then you probably don't need SponsorBlock, to my knowledge the extension only works on YouTube's official website.
Don't know about NewPipe, but SponsorBlock is integrated into revanced!
Newpipe x Sponsorblock is a thing.
Also, is there a preferred way to create a Firefox account? I don't want to enter my personal email, and adding a disposable email may lock me from this account if it asks for verification later on.
I'd recommend using SimpleLogin or Addy (formerly AnonAddy).
Woah, email aliases is the perfect solution for this! Thank you very much!
So, a lot of websites filter out known trash mail domains and won't allow any of their email addresses for sign up. I don't see that Simplelogin or Addy can circumvent that (beside using a custom domain which however will be linked to your name via the registrar).
How do you manage websites with such restrictions?
On simplelogin premium you can get your own subdomain from them. For example, you can have the subdomain @computer.simplelogin.com. In my experience these might work even when the domain is blocked for sign up
Ah, nice, will try that out. I guess the success rate depends on the way the sites filte email addresses.
Thanks for the reply!
I usually just create a burner Proton Mail account in that case, and keep note of its details and purpose in my Password Manager so I don't forget.
That's something I'm doing too. I wish there was a nicer way though.
Thanks for the reply!
Yeah, I wish there was an easier way too 😔