ShadowRebel

joined 1 year ago
 

It's becoming more and more popular for websites (including Google & others) to demand you SMS text verify to use the service. This can be a huge drag on privacy. This article goes over a few services you can pay some tiny amount of cryptocurrency to get a burner SMS text number just for this purpose, including tips on which ones to use for which service:

https://simplifiedprivacy.com/best-temporary-burner-sms-verification-services/

Note: There are no affiliate links. This is a neutral third party article.

 

Microsoft Propaganda has indoctrinated young children into believing that pressing control alt delete to restart their failed operating system is a normal part of the human experience. This article discusses the clear speed and economic benefits of switching to Linux: https://simplifiedprivacy.com/linux-has-speed-economic-benefits/

[–] ShadowRebel@monero.town 1 points 1 year ago

Ah ok, that was meant for someone who wants to setup OpenVPN on a VPS that they can SSH into. But this person does not want to do the work. So the company can provide the service of setting up what you like on a VPS

[–] ShadowRebel@monero.town 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

We are recommending VPNs in general, but are not "hawking" or selling a specific one.

Second, we did not say a VPN hides against cookies. Cookies can easily be erased in the browser. This article is discussing browser fingerprints, which neither a VPN nor cookies deal with. Your reading comprehension is shockingly low.

[–] ShadowRebel@monero.town 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You can not use Facebook with JS disabled. uBlock Origin is an option to reduce facebook off the platform. Running a VM is an effective strategy for isolation of certain sites. No solution is perfect, nor is it for everyone.

[–] ShadowRebel@monero.town 1 points 1 year ago

You are correct that facial recognition and any data put into facebook would still be tracked regardless of the steps you took. You're also correct that your friends and still leak info about you. However, I strongly disagree with your criticism regarding VPNs and VMs. A VPN is something you should be doing anyway, this is not really news to anyone here. And regarding VMs, the article does not say it's for everyone, only those with a high threat model that want to use facebook anyway. It is not true that if you browse in a KVM machine with a given fingerprint, that it would lead back to browsing outside it. You are correct that a VM is a lot of effort for most people, and in fact, the majority will not choose this route. But this is educational material for those who ARE interested, this is what some choices are.

 

From internal leaks within the company as well as external analysis, the tip of the iceberg behind Facebook's spyware empire is exposed. Take a look to better protect yourself when you're not even on the platform: https://simplifiedprivacy.com/facebooks-corrupt-off-platform-surveillance/

 

This article presents a mix of examples, some in which Big Tech just abuses the customer's lack of knowledge, but in other cases Big Tech acts illegally.

It's a real eye opener to learn how your medical data is being sold: https://simplifiedprivacy.com/big-tech-abuses-medical-privacy/

[–] ShadowRebel@monero.town 2 points 1 year ago

You know what's also bad for the environment? Typing on lemmy, you're using electricity

[–] ShadowRebel@monero.town 1 points 1 year ago

sometimes i wonder if these people are trolling or for real, thanks brother

[–] ShadowRebel@monero.town 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What are you complaining about? that the website exists?

[–] ShadowRebel@monero.town 0 points 1 year ago

We have articles as well, SimplifiedPrivacy.com

[–] ShadowRebel@monero.town -2 points 1 year ago

We have articles as well, SimplifiedPrivacy.com And it's self-hosted. There is no video ad monetization.

[–] ShadowRebel@monero.town -4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

SimplifiedPrivacy.com Many articles

 

Some Bitcoin hodlers will say, "Who cares about privacy? Isn't Monero just for criminals?"
In this fun short video, we'll break down a few of replies you can give: https://video.simplifiedprivacy.com/why-monero/

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Many in the crypto and privacy community mistakenly trust Telegram because it's "end to end encrypted", but there are huge issues including not hiding the metadata, censorship, centralization, and phone numbers.
Send this video to your friend that asks why you won't join: https://video.simplifiedprivacy.com/why-telegram-sucks/

 

In this animated video, we discuss how Buffer Overflow attacks work and how GrapheneOS is better positioned to deal with them and overall privacy: https://video.simplifiedprivacy.com/why-grapheneos-is-more-secure/

 

You can do all the privacy measures in the world, but if the people you talk to are using spyware then it's all out the window. (literally Windows, get it?)

This video breaks down some of the basic reasons to switch to Linux so you can convince your friends: https://video.simplifiedprivacy.com/why-linux-beats-windows/

 

Why would you want to go to Youtube & Google to learn about Tor? Our beautifully animated video is on our own platform and will teach you the basic concepts behind Tor and what to avoid: https://video.simplifiedprivacy.com/how-tor-works/

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