Para_lyzed

@Para_lyzed@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Deleting facebook account without consenting to new EU ad policy or paying the subscription⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Facebook has been selling your data to ad companies since the day you created your account. This only changes what you visually see on the website. It makes absolutely zero difference from a data collection standpoint. Just consent so you can delete your accounts with less hassle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Video chat options?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d argue SimpleX does it better, they’re even modifying the Signal protocol to support post-quantum encryption. No phone number, uses the Signal protocol, and has no user identifiers at all (no usernames, no account numbers, no account at all; everything is stored locally on your device)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Video chat options?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The best options for you are going to be SimpleX Chat or Jami, depending on your use case. If you only need to make video calls, probably Jami is the easier option, but if you’d like to have a chat app with video call support, SimpleX is the right choice. SimpleX is also just a really good messaging app, because it has no user identifiers or accounts. They have a wonderful explanation of their method for two-way communication in their whitepaper if you’re interested.

  Also, video calling in a “secure environment”, as you’ve stated, is not difficult and certainly not impossible. There are plenty of options available. Others beyond the ones I gave are Jitsi (but it’s gone way downhill; don’t use it), Signal, Element (you do NOT have to self-host for it, you can use the main instance or any other instance), and the options open up to basically everything if you make a new user profile and install sandboxed Google Play Services in the new user profile (from the “Apps” app). With sandboxed Google Play, you can use apps like Zoom if you really wanted, but I’d strongly encourage you not to for the sake of privacy. You can download apps without signing into a Google account via the Aurora Store.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Video chat options?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, of course GrapheneOS can run SimpleX! SimpleX has no dependence on the Google Services Framework, and even for apps that do have GSF dependence, they can be run with sandboxed GSF. The only apps that don’t work on GrapheneOS are apps that try to use the SafetyNet, which is mostly banking apps, or those that require GSF to have deep root privilege to operate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Website domain and hosting?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  1984.hosting is great, I’ve been using their service for a couple of years now. They’re based in Iceland (really strong privacy laws) and have options for crypto payment if you don’t want to reveal yourself through your payment method. As with all registrars, they’ll need an email address (or alias) to reach you at in case there’s a domain dispute, and while they also ask for address and phone number, they’ve never had me actually verify anything beyond the email. If you give a fake address and phone number, then you’ll just need to understand that if someone challenges your domain, it will be very difficult for you to prove ownership with fake details (not as if that’s likely to happen unless you’re allowing the site to be crawled by a search engine though). I only have a domain through them, not a hosted webserver, but they seem to have good options for hosting. I know that they handle Let’s Encrypt certs automatically for hosted sites, and they run off green energy (geothermal) if that matters to you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trackers blocking without (total) ads blocking⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Talking on the YouTube front, a trivially small donation will support them far more than watching ads ever could. Even something as small as $1/year is far more than they would ever make from you in a year. As far as donations to developers go, it depends entirely on what you feel comfortable with. Most people who work on open source projects are unpaid volunteers, so it isn’t expected that you donate, but if you choose to do so it can be quite helpful to sustaining the project. If many people in the userbase were to make small donations, that would go a long way.