people spend a third of their lives on those things. And while cumbersome, a big screen simply is better for media consumption
only way I see smaller phones make a comeback is if we change our habits or if a new technology comes along
Same. I stopped using amazon a few years back and I buy much less since
Lemmy was created by a tankie, many of whose opinions I abhor.
As long as it’s FOSS and doesn’t inherently promote their beliefs, I will use the software.
I agree it’s not great and I’d prefer if it weren’t made by imbeciles
Airvpn, or Azirevpn if you’re ok with few servers
Of those I’ve only used Azire, and it worked well. I’ve seen Airvpn recommended often though
I think I remember him endorsing signal years ago which gave it at big boost at the time
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most likely yes.
My point is, if youtube customizes the feeds based on the IPs, then the youtube accounts used are not really “fresh” but there’s already some data entered into the profiles upon their creation.
fresh YouTube account
change their location to a random city in the US
yeah but you’re still bound to IP addresses. I was under the impression Youtube used those for their profiling
I still use yt-dlp to download because I don’t understand Freetube’s options. It’s either only audio or video
Also if you’re on Linux and you get a white screen during playback (has been an issue since 0.22) this fix works for me: freetube --enable-features=''
edit: posting a vertical pic messes up the webpage a bit. If it’s annoying tell me
How does that work? The lab puts you in contact with people they know share your DNA?
A non techy but privacy mindful friend bought a fairphone with /e/
She’s happy with it
I might do the same one day when I don’t want to tinker anymore
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I thought I saw a misunderstanding to the comment you were responding to, that’s all
the most common complaint that dialogue is cringe is patently false
yeah, there are times when the dialogue is pretty cringey
same goes for the other response by Scrubbles
if I’m still not clear forget it, really it’s unimportant, I shouldn’t have commented
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his payrise is equivalent to something like 3000 US workers minimum wage annual salaries
if my math is correct (which it probably isn’t)
google captcha that will 100% fail the first time no matter how careful I am, sorry I can’t do it anymore, especially if I don’t know what I’m opening
and hasn’t it be established bots can solve those now and it’s just about the money?
I loved xprivacy_lua
You could hide almost everything.
No app knew the other apps I used.
No app had clipboard access. when I needed to paste something I used Xposed Edge.
You could spoof a lot of info, GPS coordinates, IMEI …
The list goes on.
support stopped. I should check if there’s a fork.
edit: AOSP permissions have improved and I now use almost exclusively FOSS apps, so I’m not worried, but I still miss the app.
edit2: there’s a fork: https://xdaforums.com/t/xpl-ex-xprivacylua-ex-android-privacy-manager-hooking-manager-extended.4652573/
I don’t know. more than 60% of Internet traffic comes from mobile devices, and it keeps increasing