Also wish it was open source, but I do trust it. I tend to run Wireshark initially on all new closed source apps I install and obsidian feels truly trustworthy from my perspective. And the power behind it, while keeping the files super simple, is amazing... Combine it with syncthing and it's a win!
Mikelius
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I personally prefer NoScript not for just the privacy stuff, but for the security of knowing that an accidental click to a malicious site using some zeroday JavaScript exploit won't kick in like it would, had it not been default blocked.
My NoScript profile is also fairly populated with things I've trusted over the years, so it's really only new websites that require JavaScript that I have to worry about.
Maybe just me being over cautious, but just keeps me at ease, personally.
Facebook??? Think I remember MySpace having most of the 2000s. Even then, I used Yahoo!, AIM, and MSN way more lol.
I forward all router logs to a syslog server which then parses and alerts me of "unknown Mac addresses" joining the network as soon as even one log shows up. If you have a syslog server and some way to index/parse those logs, that's one way to do it
Text wall is too much to even try to read, but if this is what I think it is, I'd recommend for folks to buck up and go manual on data removal. Unless you want your info exposed even more, of course.
https://inteltechniques.com/blog/2023/09/19/the-dangers-of-data-removal-service-doxxing/
Just ran a Wireshark on it for 12 hours. The only thing it ever does is a frequent ping to their home site, but includes no useful data other than an IP address if you're not on VPN. I wouldn't worry about it personally. If it's a big deal, DNS block darkreader.org or block pings to it through your firewall... Chances are it's just to download the latest css rules when they have them or something.
I always recommend Amcrest for anything related to cameras. Idk about the doorbell since I don't have that specifically, but the cameras are completely local (no cloud server acting as the relay) and no sign up required unless you use their home app (I use the view pro app to avoid signups).
Reolink doesn't require signups, but their cameras generally require internet from my experience, as they use their own cloud servers as relays, which would mean they can't work offline like you're wanting.
This isn't really a "Linux" problem. Calling it a Linux problem implies all distros do the same thing out of the box because it's a part of the core system. Systemd has a file,
/etc/systemd/resolved.confwhich has one lineDNS=that you can add the servers you want. It's as simple as that. If you're using Dnsmasq for DNS instead, you'd edit the Dnsmasq file. If you're not using my of those (i.e. you removed systemd-resolved, Dnsmasq, etc) then you can just edit the/etc/reeolv.confdirectly without worry of it being overwritten.While many distros come with systemd out of the box, not all of them do. For example, I use Gentoo with rc and after editing my resolv.conf, never had to worry about it again unless I decided to install a custom DNS software on it later.
I read many replies to your post as "DNS software shouldn't be allowed to change DNS settings" for the most part, and that doesn't quite make sense to me. If it's a problem, remove said software. Browsers are definitely annoying in the DNS front, I won't disagree with that. Fortunately, they allow you to turn that off though.