In previous chapetrs of Orwell’s Blueprint we have covered how you are tracked and also exposed some data brokers. However, what most people don’t realize is just how much trouble metadata can get you in to…

If you’ve been on the internet in the last two weeks, you’ve possibly heard about Apple’s new Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) countermeasures. What you’ve heard – depending on where you’ve heard it – can range from “OMG Apple is gonna scan everything on your phone and manually review it and tell …

This past week, the European Commission approved a temporary proposal commonly being called “Chat Control.” In just the few days since, I’ve seen wild accusations and misinformation spew out of the depths of the internet, and few people actually fact checking these. To their defense, this stuff suck…

Orwell’s 1984 was fiction, but if you read it, you know much of this ‘fiction’ has become a blueprint for aspects of the modern world. In a fairly extreme post a while back, we covered the situation where you are being followed. …

One thing about data breaches always blows me away, no matter how many times it happens or how commonplace it becomes: late disclosures. I mean WAY late disclosures…

If you follow the Privacy Cookbook, you’ll know I am a big fan of encrypting your DNS. Combine that with a good blocklist (on the DNS or device) and you are ahead of the pack!..

I recently shared how to ADB disable apps and bloatware. Today we go the extra mile and block access to location, clipboard and co for apps that shouldn’t have these permissions…

One of the questions I am getting asked a lot is: “what cellphone can I use and still be private? I could use Apple, right?” …

If you follow the Privacy Cookbook (and decentralize.today) you’ll realize that both keep mentioning DNS. It is in my opinion one of the most important things you need to set up, regardless of if its browser or system wide. On iOS and Android it is even more important to combine it with ad and spyw…

The Privacy Cookbook usually provides guidance and instructions on how to make your existing hardware more secure. In today’s chapter section, I want to cover the question"if you are up for a new device, what should I get?"…

Back in the day, one would buy a new car based upon its looks, the power rating, handling and whether you wanted leather seats or not. But this is no longer the case as those pushy sales guys at the car showroom are trying to persuade us that all these new (privacy-invasive) features, with voice ass…

Yes, the headline has decentralized and messenger in the same sentence. Sounds good, doesn’t it? …

I’m sure you’ve all heard stories where people get ads sent to them based on stuff they’ve talked about on their phones. Maybe you’ve even had an experience like this yourself? Perhaps it is just a (very) smart algorithm, and it did, indeed, somehow predict that you needed that product. …

Every Monday, I will be taking on corporations, exposing their unethical practices, how they sell our data and the other things that make them richer and richer at your expense. I will try to share with you not just our findings, but also provide some solutions. Today we start with the world’s best …

Over the last 3 weeks we’ve covered various aspects of what we have called Orwell’s Blueprint. Just to refresh your memory, when you leave your house you’re carrying an ankle monitor with you, of your own freewill, your cellphone. And that problem doesn’t start or end with the phone or the manufactu…

Ok, you have a shiny new S21 Ultra, or a Note 21, or any of the new/old Samsung Phones. What can you do to make them more private, and remove some battery hungry apps…

We started this special mini-series of EXPOSED! two weeks ago by explaining how the guy who stands by your front door, follows you to the supermarket, goes through your trash and reports to your health care provider that you had two steaks, a couple of beers and a bottle of scotch last weekend!..

Last week we opened the eyes of a few readers when it comes to the people who follow you around. From the supermarket to your home, going through your trash and knowing more about you than your own mother or the Stasi in East Germany. …

The tedium of ‘do as I say, not as I do’, whataboutism and the creation of false narratives …

I guess we can all agree that YouTube can be entertaining, might even be a good source for news and that you can use it to listen to all kinds of music…