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No offence but isn't a very similar policy about banning end-to-end encryption also in talk in the EU

Absolutely don't agree with it, will be the beginning of the end for privacy but this is more of a European wide (and even world wide) push for a close to e2e encryption

I use Firefox (librewolf) on desktop and Brave on mobile, its privacy respecting (with the right options) and has a quite a few things built in to block ads and trackers

privacytools.io is no longer the recommended one since the mod/domain owner split a long while ago, it now heavily endorses ads (such as nordvpn) you instead should use

https://www.privacyguides.org/en/tools/

Brave still is a great browser just disable a few settings as recommended in the guide

Could just get a pcie to nvme m.2 adapter, think Sabrent does a pretty good one

Though it depends on you having spare pcie slots (I'm not 100% sure but I believe the speeds should still be better than sata but you'd have to check)

Be careful with the backups though, there's a good chance you have 2FA enabled on your Google drive

So basically if you lose your phone you can't access your 2FA app, if you can't access your 2FA you can't open your Google Drive, which means you can't ever get the backup

Other than disabling 2FA I'm not really sure on the best approach to get around this

At the end of the day this is a public platform, you don't even need an account to browse here

Your posts and comments can, will and are currently being collected and stored permanently legally or not by other organisations and advertisers

It's not really a security issue, none of this is intended to be private you're posting publically to the internet

Defederating is made to be a one way block on purpose, larger servers otherwise could essentially kill off any competition so easily if they could Defederate and stop any other instances from being able to view their content, forcing users to swap to the larger instance to still be able to view the most content

No worries at all, there's a lot of misconception around defederating and the number of posts and comments I've seen really made me second guess myself to the point I had to start up some accounts across different instances to test

I think the Meta/Threads news really hasn't helped with people spamming it like crazy

I'm not too sure what you mean, for their own users yeah they can use whatever their users agree to. Phone numbers, IP address, name, email, device, whatever they like really. They can then easily have that all linked up with their relevant Instagram and Facebook profiles for advertisers. Adversisers then kind of build up profiles about users across different services which is why often if for example you look up cats on one app you might see a cat food advertisement in another

Target for example is great at building profiles up (automatically) of their shoppers, a while back there was a huge story about them predicting a pregnancy Forbes Article

Other users not on Meta I'd say no, this sounds like it would be illegal honestly at least in some countries though I don't know enough about privacy law to say

That said, instance owners could definitely sell off your data to advertisers if they wanted to and it was in the TOS of that instance

In all honesty I don't really believe that Meta will take data from other servers for advertising since that seems to sit in a very grey area legally (might honestly be straight up illegal in some countries)

I guess my point is more about OP wanting to Defederate to stop Meta profiting (which I don't think it really would)

In a way this does make me slightpy concerned about Lemmy servers, Reddit has a team of lawyers and tonnes of funds behind it to fight pointless demands like these

A lot of server owners won't and will be much easier to coax into giving up information about it's users

I don't think we do, at the end of the day this is kind of the point of being a decentralised service. You pick a server you like and one that defederates the way you want.

If you try to do it like a two way block situation you could very easily end up with larger servers deciding to just Defederate smaller ones to completey kill them off since the majority of content would be hosted on larger servers

If your issue is with the privacy aspect or Meta taking your content potentially to be used with advertisers then unfortunately this is going to happen regardless, any publicly viewable content you have to expect is going to live on the internet in some form forever and will be used by advertiser's to the best of their ability

The solution is to join an instance that has defederated Threads (if you don't want to see content from them) and be cautious about the information you post. This isn't exclusive to the Fediverse either, any public forum your comments and posts should try to keep you as anonymous as possible (if privacy is your concern)

Nope not at all, this is where the misconception is.

Defederating works kind of like a one way block, you stop your instance (Server A) from being able to see content from the other (Server B)

Server A can no longer see any content from B

B can still all the content from A, however users of B can no longer comment, upvote, downvote etc the only thing they can do is read the content of A

This is the same for Lemmy, Kbin and Mastodon

Defederating is for when you don't want your users to see harmful content (bots, extreme ideologies, problematic posts etc), if you just don't want to see the posts then fair enough that's the way to do it

If you care about the privacy aspect of Meta seeing your comments/posts or about not wanting Meta users to see your content then no, defederating won't achieve anything

Edit: I don't like Meta, my point is that lots of users are calling for defederating without actually understanding anything about how it works