I did a search for posts on Google Takeout before posting this and the only one I saw was from a year ago so I guess its ok to post this.
I just learned about it this morning.
The TLDR; is that you can request all the info Google has on you, in my case I want to do something with that data as I move away from Google, but just seeing what they have is nuts.
You might want to consider doing so.
(i would link the url, but its long and ugly, just search for Google Takeout, you will find it)
Im working on de-googling as well, from a privacy perspective. I am also looking at Proton for email. for
trying to think of the others, lol but im tired.
the two I heard about are mysudo.com and privacy.com. I think both are US only. Are they both based in the US? It didnt say on the privacy.com about us page
edit: yes, they are both based in the US.
any non-US based options that offer services to the US?
found it but was super limited. went into developer settings and enabled unknown sources but it didnt change the options. did some searches but cant find any way of really doing anything about it without rooting my phone. so meh.
amazeballs, thanks!
It didnt for me. I installed Comaps from fdroid the other day, and it didnt come up on androidauto. I guess I could try installing it from the app store and see.
I just got implemented it a yesterday. Let me check out pangolin. Im just running the traccar server instance in docker on an old laptop and connecting through tailscale at the moment. need to look into a FOSS vpn probably. WIP XD
FWIW, traccar seems to be a great alternative. Set it up today. Docker and app on the phone with tailscale. Works well. Can share docker compose file if there is interest.
Will check it out, thanks!
I don't use it. But sometimes you may find a need to read or search for something that is only on there.
this, 100% this. be afraid.
just saw this 2 hours ago from Sam Bent
exactly. I have kids. I got it to keep them safe. had it up till today, so for years and years. pisses me off to no end. I will find a FOSS self hosted solution. There has to be one. It may not be friendly, but it has to exist, lol.
This is a bit dated, but the case it not yet resolved. If you search it its still pending and in mediation. Life360 is looking to limit who it sells the info to in order to resolve the case. There is no debate that they were selling the info.
So there are lots of ways to figure out who people are, and I am sure I dont know all of them, but I bet I know some you dont.
Lets put together a list of known ones. Ill start.
(If we dont get a big list, which we may not, for bonus points add techniques to ease drop/intercept information)
fingerprinting techniques
Food for thought.
So DNS Black-holing is not new obviously, and what stands out as the go to solution? Pihole probably... and yeah thats what im using because hey its a popular choice. Though I am running it in docker. Combining that with Unbound (also in docker), and configuring outbound DNS to use DNS over TLS, with a few additional minor tweaks, but otherwise mostly standard configuration on both.
Wondering what you guys might be using, and if you are using Pihole and/or Unbound if you have any tips on configuration.
Happy to share my config if there is interest.
At this point it not about passive collection, corporations are going to extreme ends to get our data.
https://www.zeropartydata.es/p/localhost-tracking-explained-it-could
I am interested in what people are doing to enforce their privacy while using the web.
I have some things in place, looking to compare with the community.
(btw, I am new here, this is my first post. So uh… Hi )
you are not kidding, this one is driving me crazy. no pun intended.