i left a big comment regarding this in another thread, TL;DR combination of brave on desktop and a lot of non-brave things on android, privacy browser + mull + DDG
inside the addons page: eBay is port scanning visitors to their website - and they aren't the only ones
that one is very interesting if one has any coding background
appimages just got less easy…
i don't know which update did it - i think it must have been os-level (i run pop_os, derived from ubuntu) - but appimages silently stopped working. double-click, nothing. finally i looked in the log out of desparation, which said 'appimages require fuse'.
more accurately, appimages require fuse 2 and the os had just upgraded to fuse 3. the fix is to heat-seek libfuse2, and don't mess with any other fuse-related package as things can start wrecking themselves:
sudo apt install libfuse2
originally seen on an omgubuntu post
i believe one can't stop collection, only aggregation, so use different platforms and different emails - and critically, a device that actually meets your needs - and hope for the best. i have a garmin with an email on a domain i own. my phone is android, using a google profile that's empty of any voluntary info and tied to a gmail address used for nothing else.
it's child's play to aggregate this, but otoh, two companies will work to combine the data only if they have a common goal.
i did end up going back to namecheap, where i already had an account. i'm trying not to create new relationships with businesses that heavily use recaptcha, and with porkbun it's part of the login process
damn, automatic whois privacy and easy let's encrypt certs - that does look legit
the graph comes off an android app called pano scrobbler - it handles submissions to my last.fm and my listenbrainz - i have both as i pull different stats from each. the player is just a bog-standard player, playerpro, fed by a Big Ass Playlist™
i was in a car much of the week so, uncharacteristically, was mostly on shuffle. technically the playlist is called 'mass hysteria' and represents everything in my 33-day library that's rated 3 stars or above, where the rating implies less about quality and more about 'works when shuffled'. no album rock, no classical.
'who's telling the truth, k-fed or the sun'?
argh i need a third option
i had run across this report some time back - it provides some hard analysis behind the "both leak but android leaks more" theory
Mobile Handset Privacy: Measuring The Data iOS and Android Send to Apple And Google
retrieved from doug leith's web site, at trinity college in dublin: https://www.scss.tcd.ie/Doug.Leith/
that tripped me up too - but it's just the web demo. if you install it, your browser doesn't matter
sophie's latest 'hana' came out last week and it seems to be getting a similar 'meh but in a good way' that her last two did, familia and wanderlust. apparently they're a three-pack in the same style.
after those first two i thought we'd lost her forever, but then came the tragedy of covid and the unexpectedly literal 'kitchen disco' from chez sophie.
then she toured it, and i'll just say i never thought i'd hear her leaning into the likes of dancing queen and moloko's 'sing it back'. the live album is definitely worth a listen.
this was a message board that tube staff made for the day of a kylie 'golden' concert. the album wasn't my favourite, i listen to showgirls and country but prefer not to have them mixed
i agree, but my unpopular opinion is that mozilla has also proven this repeatedly, with nothing and nobody being universally better. privacy people love firefox, but i spend a lot of time with each major version's release notes figuring out how to undo the new telemetry (increasing integration with pocket, firefox suggest, location that won't turn off).
my threat model is 'they're all evil, including mozilla', so there are additional rings around everything