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Google Removed 749 Million Anna's Archive URLs from its Search Results * TorrentFreak
I'm surprised that someone that would use Anna's Archive, would use Google as their search engine.
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Google Removed 749 Million Anna's Archive URLs from its Search Results * TorrentFreak
I'm surprised that someone that would use Anna's Archive, would use Google as their search engine.
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Encrypted services Apple, Proton and Wire helped Spanish police identify activist | TechCrunch
"helped" is very misleading. Companies can't refuse to provide information they have when served a search warrant / court order. These companies DID NOT choose to provide the info on their own.
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Privacy on Cars. How to stop data collection and transmission?
We need an online guide, based on make and model, on how to disable the transmission of this data.
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Encrypted services Apple, Proton and Wire helped Spanish police identify activist | TechCrunch
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As someone who has worked fraud and online investigations, and both written and served search warrants; it is not an option. A probable cause affidavit is presented to a judge and if the judge agrees there is sufficient probable cause, a search warrant is issued. This is an order by the judge and not optional. The judge can hold the company in contempt if they refuse to obey his/her order.
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FOSS online equivalent to Google Docs?
Cryptpad.fr
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I'm deGoogling. What's my new Podcast app?
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Agreed, grab AntennaPod from the f-droid store.
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Getting school pictures done, dont feel like paying. They send them out with a watermark. Any tools to remove watermark that run on my machine not the web?
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It is the copyright work product of someone else...that is absolutely piracy (theft).
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Looking for a privacy focused travel assistant on mobile
I use Anytype (anytype.io) on my phone and desktop. I make a page for each trip and add screenshots of confirmations, maps, itinerary, etc.
Anytype is similar to Notion but is open source and encrypted locally.
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Since it is a free phone from a carrier it will be locked until the phone is "paid off" by keeping their service for a specified amount of time. Once that time has passed, then your best option is to have the carrier unlock it and install Graphene OS. Until then, there is not much you can do.
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Best privacy friendly, reliable and affordable domain name extension ?
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Context (from the FAQ):
"We're not actually a domain name registration service, we're a customer to these. We sit in between the domain name registration service and you, acting as a privacy shield.
When you purchase a domain name through Njalla, we own it for you. However, the agreement between us grants you full usage rights to the domain. Whenever you want to, you can transfer the ownership to yourself or some other party."
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Any source of IMAX movies in 1:1.43?
The bigger question I have is how are you going to view them? Did you build yourself and IMAX size screen?
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Proton wallet is only for Bitcoin
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Plex for books?
Calibre
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How Do I Avoid Giving Home Address to Bank?
What you are likely referring to is a "nomad" residence. There are some states that allow this, such as Florida. There is a process to getting this status and you would want to do that before opening a new account in that state.
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Seeking consumer privacy focused paypal alternative in the US, prefer FOSS if possible. Any suggestions?
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Best option I can think of is privacy.com
You can create virtual cards linked to your bank account and the transaction data is masked when processed by you bank. All my bank transactions show up as NSA Gift Shop. My bank doesn't know where I'm spending my money. Yes you have to trust privacy.com...
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If you want to host something on a Raspberry Pi, you should consider using literally any other piece of hardware
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Yes, agreed...running pi-hole on a RP3b and it works great! Have been running it 24/with Raspbian and the same SD card for over 5 years.
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Proton VPN on Linux looks very different from Windows. How do you select one of their P2P options for faster torrenting?
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Yes, but it still doesn't have wireguard, only openVPN.
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Any privacy-respecting apps to use for my phone to make NFC?
Are you referring to "tap to pay" with your phone that uses NFC?
If so, you are out of luck. Only options (at least in the USA) are Apple, Google, and Samsung.
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The Proton VPN Linux app now supports Permanent Kill Switch!
Does the new version have Wireguard or is it still stuck with just openVPN?
I gave up on ProtonVPN for my Linux devices and switched back to Mullvad. They have Wireguard and split tunneling on Linux and have for quite a while.
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Permission Slip by Consumer Reports
First quick check of the app with classysharkExodus shows the following trackers built in: