PrivacyWayFinder

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DuckDuckGo starting to give more "personal" search results in c/[email protected]
[–] PrivacyWayFinder 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Search query with possible parameters included from their website.

Privacy-friendly whatsapp in c/[email protected]
[–] PrivacyWayFinder 2 points 1 month ago

I am using Launch Chat. As it got more other messenger apps(Telegram, Signal). So far so good, chat with people without allowing contacts permission to messengers like whatsapp.

Session vs simplex or other alternatives? in c/[email protected]
[–] PrivacyWayFinder 9 points 2 months ago

Session don't have forward secrecy. For more comparison check out this Spreadsheet.

Inside the Biggest FBI Sting Operation in History in c/[email protected]
[–] PrivacyWayFinder 1 points 3 months ago

Can't wait to watch the film....lol

What's the best messaging platform? in c/[email protected]
[–] PrivacyWayFinder 26 points 3 months ago (1 children)

SimpleX

Does VPNs even work against Big Brother apps? Using one really protects our privacy? (masking our location) in c/[email protected]
[–] PrivacyWayFinder 3 points 3 months ago

Thank you for enlightening me.

Does VPNs even work against Big Brother apps? Using one really protects our privacy? (masking our location) in c/[email protected]
[–] PrivacyWayFinder 2 points 3 months ago

Thank you.

Does VPNs even work against Big Brother apps? Using one really protects our privacy? (masking our location) in c/[email protected]
[–] PrivacyWayFinder 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Phone

Does VPNs even work against Big Brother apps? Using one really protects our privacy? (masking our location) in c/[email protected]
[–] PrivacyWayFinder 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Thank you for the tips. I have checked the leaks turns out it's not the problem with vpn, it's with my gps, metadata thing I think. I guess de-googling my phone solves this.

Does VPNs even work against Big Brother apps? Using one really protects our privacy? (masking our location) in c/[email protected]
[–] PrivacyWayFinder 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I am using windows but thank you for the information. Maybe it's because of my gps, metadata, phone ping, cellular network and other thing associated with play services like few mentioned in the comment section.

Does VPNs even work against Big Brother apps? Using one really protects our privacy? (masking our location) in c/[email protected]
[–] PrivacyWayFinder 2 points 3 months ago

Thank you.

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Does VPNs even work against Big Brother apps? Using one really protects our privacy? (masking our location) (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by PrivacyWayFinder to c/[email protected]
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I am currently using Proton VPN (free tier) which is set to Always-ON and Block Connections on disable.

Today while I am going through my Gmail security option, on the devices/sessions I found my real location mentioned over there. Even when I use desktop I always connect to VPN.

On this issue I got couple of doubts:

  • Is this because I am using a free tier VPN? so it's not functioning properly etc...
  • Else google fixed my location based on my previous location history? I used my google applications without VPN for many years, I am just learning & following privacy tips recently.
Why every TOTP app default uses SHA-1 hash encryption? in c/[email protected]
[–] PrivacyWayFinder 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

damn it.

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Why every TOTP app default uses SHA-1 hash encryption? (self.privacy)
 

I use Aegis as my 2fa. Today on new token creation I observed that there's hash function set to SHA-1, later checked all my tokens and the result is same type of encryption used for all. So I have edited all my tokens to SHA-256 as a result my totp doesn't authenticate. Do I have to rescan my tokens for updating to SHA-256 or it doesn't work like that?

Security: SHA-1 < SHA-256 < SHA-512

Speed: SHA-1 > SHA-256 > SHA-512

My doubts are: Why can't we use SHA-256? Is it because TOTP requires less time so faster one(SHA-1) is chosen? Can we use SHA-256 for TOTPs?

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Which of the among is the best exif remover app? (self.privacy)
 

Scrambled Exif vs Metadata Remover

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Something's off lately with Proton VPN free tier. (self.protonprivacy)
 

Websites and apps are not loading, sometimes buffering on connecting with majority of servers like Netherlands, Japan etc.. available on free tier.

I am also getting this message/popup while running proton VPN for long time i.e. "Device limit exceeded, join plus..." though i am using single device. lol

I know I know nothing comes for free and you need to compromise lot of stuff when it comes for free.

But I just want to address there are more issue with free tier proton vpn after the recent update (keeping timeout for changing servers, not able select server of you choice among the 5 free tier servers like previously).

I am thankful for you people increasing freebies like extended drive space from 1gb to 5gb and added two other countries i.e. Romania and Poland for Proton VPN free tier but at the same time changed the other features like mentioned above. This make me feel that old one is far better compare to now.

Afterall, these are maybe the tactics used by the company on persisting to buy their plus tier.

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