burnerben wrote on January 29, 2021 at 12:51 AM

Reply to New Spotify Patent Involves Monitoring Users’ Speech to Recommend Music by Rambler

so how much is apple music again?

Rambler OP wrote on January 29, 2021 at 12:36 AM

Reply to New Spotify Patent Involves Monitoring Users’ Speech to Recommend Music by Rambler

What happened to the good ol' days of: "You liked this artist? You'll probably like this other artist too."

And it didn't require bugging your house to do it.

mr4channer wrote on January 28, 2021 at 11:01 PM

Reply to by !deleted152

don't use addon vpns lol, use openvpn or wireguard or official client lol

Rambler OP wrote on January 27, 2021 at 11:51 PM

Reply to comment by !deleted152 in The case against Signal by Rambler

I enjoy Session, but it's not mature enough for daily use. Poor/no syncing between devices, weird line wrapping when typing, and desktop notifications aren't working (for me).

But, it's an option.

J0yI9YUX41Wx wrote on January 27, 2021 at 7:06 PM

Reply to India institutes Chinese app ban, including TikTok - Android Authority by Rambler

Good for them.

div1337 wrote on January 27, 2021 at 6:53 AM

Reply to Tory party illegally collected data on ethnicity of 10m voters, MPs told by Rambler

With all the data leaks from big tech and London as one of the most surveilled city in the world, this is the least of worries really?

mr4channer wrote on January 26, 2021 at 3:37 PM

Reply to How law enforcement gets around your smartphone’s encryption by Rambler

whole point of "smart" phone is to track you

mr_krabs wrote on January 26, 2021 at 5:03 AM

Reply to Privacy tips for a android phone? (Galaxy s10) by MrBlack

If you have a Snapdragon chip (Qualcomm) then you're SOL regarding custom ROMs. You can try Pinephone or some other GNU/Linux-based phone if you're doing a flat-out device switch. If you don't want to be a guinea pig for a Linux phone though (mobile Linux now = desktop Linux in the early 2000s).

div1337 wrote on January 25, 2021 at 9:19 PM

Reply to Google Effort to Kill Third-Party Cookies in Chrome Rolls Out in April by Rambler

"Rather than go full nuclear on the tracking, Google came up with a compromise solution to the cookie debacle. The company plans on using the browser to group together internet users who have similar browsing patterns. In turn, businesses can serve relevant ads to these clusters of like-minded people, removing the need to track users individually."

No thanks. Use Brave instead

Rambler wrote on January 25, 2021 at 5:05 AM

Reply to NSA ANT Catalog: Released to the public in 2013, the capabilities of the NSA were already insane by eeqrhty

Pretty good read.

The capabilities of today must be pretty far advanced. What do you think they can do?

J0yI9YUX41Wx wrote on January 25, 2021 at 2:54 AM

Reply to comment by eeqrhty in EFF Transition Memo to Incoming Biden Administration by Rambler

Well, with option #2, they get to keep this magic eraser that they can use on pretty much whoever.

Rambler OP wrote on January 24, 2021 at 11:22 PM

Reply to comment by J0yI9YUX41Wx in EFF Transition Memo to Incoming Biden Administration by Rambler

Let's hope.

Rambler OP wrote on January 24, 2021 at 11:19 PM

Reply to comment by div1337 in I spent 2020 replacing all the Google things in my life. Here's what I use now instead. by Rambler

I used to use Piwik in the past and really enjoyed it. Now I'm wanting to find something that does it all server side, and pulls data from access logs. I don't need all the fancy graphs and analytical data, but being able to chart out traffic/visits/popular pages and basic stuff like that would be nice.

div1337 wrote on January 24, 2021 at 11:07 PM

Reply to I spent 2020 replacing all the Google things in my life. Here's what I use now instead. by Rambler

"Google Analytics"

Self host Piwik / Matomo

div1337 wrote on January 24, 2021 at 11:01 PM

Reply to No, you shouldn't use Brave. by Rambler

Brave is at the forefront of browser privacy, bringing fingerprinting shield and tor browser to the non-techies and their (upcoming?) p2p protocol will be so awesome.

eeqrhty wrote on January 24, 2021 at 10:28 PM (edited on January 24, 2021 at 10:39 PM)

Reply to comment by J0yI9YUX41Wx in EFF Transition Memo to Incoming Biden Administration by Rambler

I doubt it. 45% of registered republicans supported the actions of demonstrators who stormed the capitol.

https://www.bizpacreview.com/2021/01/08/new-poll-shows-majority-of-republicans-blame-capitol-mayhem-on-biden-1013882/

They have a big national security problem on their hands. There are two main ways they could deal with this.

Thoroughly investigate the 2020 election and make real improvements to ensure that people have confidence in the results of future elections. Allow people to have more freedom and stop passing unconstitutional laws.
Label anyone who questions the validity of the result a terrorist or potential terrorist. Ruin the lives of demonstrators. Increase domestic surveillance so that if anyone takes it upon himself to water the tree, he can be prevented from taking out anyone too important.

So far it's clear that they prefer option 2.