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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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How to secure a Samsung device? (self.privacy)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by chaosppe to c/[email protected]

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I have just received a Samsung galaxy fold5 through the post, however I imagine it's full of bloatware and I'm inexperienced with this type of device. What is the first things that you would do to secure it? Thank you 😊

Edit: I mean to be more privacy focused

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

...if you really have trouble finding stuff on how Brave is terrible for privacy, I'm gonna go out on a limb and say you have trouble reading. It's known by most people that it's a scam. They sold private user data to machine learning companies, they are predominantly a crypto company who has a browser, they are chromium based, etc