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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • Use the user profiles feature of grapheneos to make a “social” profile and only use that to access Instagram / facebook.

    Meta sells your convo data on WhatsApp for ads, if you use it you will get targeted ads regardless.

    Other options are signal (Molly on fdroid), simplex, etc.



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    2 months ago

    Okay you asked the question, got the answer, and are clearly not listening to what people are saying and still trying to get people to agree this one is just as good…

    Scrap this shitty freemium copycat add on and just use ublock origin.

    It seriously is not that complicated.








  • Google updated something that broke most third party clients this past week… newpipe had the fix within an evening and the rest followed shortly after.

    I had multiple updates over a few days on smarttube beta so the devs must have been working overtime to get it fixed and its working great again now.

    Reminder to consider donating to the project if you get use out of it.






  • There’s nothing stopping creators from doing sponsored videos and/or sharing their liberapay/opencollective/patreon on peertube, they even provide a dedicated place for it.

    Most of the youtubers I follow claim YouTube’s direct compensation makes up very little of their overall income, especially since YouTube keeps lowering the compensation/demonetizing everything. Most of their income comes from sponsored videos, patreons, and merch sales. Maybe it depends on the youtuber but it seems consistent with those I follow.


  • TheSun@slrpnk.nettoPrivacyTraveling to the US - How to prepare
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    3 months ago

    Doesn’t need to happen often, its a possibility for x number of people passing thru the borders any given day. They have the legal right to force your biometrics to unlock your device. Removing it ahead of time is prudent.

    If you breeze thru no problems; no harm no foul, just add your thumb again.


  • I feel like the pixel 8 is in a good sweet spot right now for remaining update support, price, features, etc.

    I’m sure it varies by country but I got two upgrades from my carrier during blackfriday deals and my total monetary commitment per 256GB pixel 8 works out to $240 CAD over 2 years while lowering my monthly plan fee and increasing my data cap compared to before on my BYOD plan.

    Extremely cheap for what I would argue is an ideally sized (maybe a bit big) flagship phone.

    1000% worth it to get grapheneos. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, its LIBERATING to feel in control of your own device again.

    Edit: regarding your AA disconnects, my s10 on Samsung’s stock android had disconnects too over the course of several years and many updates;, AA just kinda sucks tbh.


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    Ya don’t go. /s

    But for real, so many better places to visit in the world.

    But definitely remove biometrics at minimum.

    If your OS allows you could setup a dummy user profile and have your phone on that at the border?

    if you have grapheneos they just recently added the ability to set a “security pin” that starts an uninterruptable wipe with no restart needed. Just make sure its not something you can pocket fumble accidentally.


  • Hey fair enough, limited bandwith for everyone. If I’m tired of seeing them I cant imagine how you feel.

    Have you considered posting a call for other mods to help share the load? Maybe I missed it, haven’t been on here THAT long.

    Ya I think I’m at the point where the sub has overrun the one moderator and it is no longer fun for me and I’ll just unsub.

    Best of luck. Oh and I think the bot you are looking for is called SantaBot to delete based off voting thresholds.