Have you had any privacy wins recently? Anything you’ve tried or tweaked to improve your privacy? Anyone who’s listened to something you’ve said? Do you have any privacy enhancing projects or changes you’re working on implementing

I managed to convert someone to Signal this week. Was having reception difficulties with a phone call (both of us in spotty areas) and after a drop out, managed to get them on board with Signal. A very notable quality improvement in the call which helped reinforce to them it was a good idea.

I’m going to work on setting up Pihole over the weekend.

Note: I did steal this topic idea from Techlore.

  • Omer@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    16 days ago

    Went from dual-booting Linux Mint and Windows to completely removing Windows and switching to Arch.

  • ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    8 days ago

    I stopped using Spotify last year, and recently dug my old ipod out of the drawer. Listening to music without an Internet connection and all the spyware is so liberating. If you have an ipod or other old mp3 player, try it out again!

    • aspidcor@lemmy.ml
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      16 days ago

      Bro how did u write exactly what I wanted to say 😄 I bought a used pixel phone and installed GrapheneOS as well Also I got Mullvad VPN and a bunch of open source apps, its so fun! But the only problem I meet is that some apps are depends on google services a lot. My bank app for example. But I solve it by installing it for a second user And it will take some time to find good replacement for gboard and google translate combination

      Duress password is priceless feature, right?

  • karashta@piefed.socialEnglish
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    17 days ago

    Been on GrapheneOS for a few weeks. Great daily driver. I feel like I have control of my phone. It constantly asks me what to share and how much.

    It sort of reminds me of the granular control you get on Linux.

    Been years since I flashed a new ROM but it was way easier than things had been. Literally a web installer. Love it!

  • utopiah@lemmy.ml
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    16 days ago

    Installed LMS (and got some of my former music streaming server to send me my listening data as .csv via GDPR request) and WireGuard this week.

    Also took the occasion to clean up and simplify my nginx reverse proxy a bit, making the addition of a new service on my server easier.

    • aspidcor@lemmy.ml
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      16 days ago

      A lot Cause I only start worry about my privacy Now i got Graohene OS, Mullvad VPN and I’m about to set up Nextcloud on my vps to get read of Google drive Also I replace gmail, Google search, google translate and almost every google apps with FOSS alternative Its so fun to explore it

  • Catalyst_A@lemmygrad.ml
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    17 days ago

    Man I’ve been a hot streak! I got NextDNS configured with Mulvad VPN and learned how to route Molly/signal through Tor. I also got a VPN router and was able to set NecxtDNS up on it as well.

  • irmadlad@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    17 days ago

    Privacy wins…hmm well I’ve managed to block 1,824,754 trackers, ads, cookies, and assorted undesirable traffic from my network this month.

      • irmadlad@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        17 days ago

        Combined number of blocks of all lists on my pFsense box. I am filtering quite heavily. You could do about the same thing with a PI-Hole Unbound.

        • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
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          2 days ago

          i’m also a pfsense user and didn’t notice this.

          or atleast i was; i have to fix my pfsense router again so i’ve temporarily switch an ancient router for now.

          • irmadlad@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            2 days ago

            I’ve had very good success with pFsense. For a freebie, it sure is packed with all the goodies. I’m probably not utilizing it to it’s fullest extent, there are just so many options. I run DNSBL and Suricata for IDS/IPS, and NTOPNG + Graphana for observables.

            • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
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              2 days ago

              it’s impressive to me too since it’s free: i used to use the vpn feature heavily when showing up to work in the office was still a thing for me.

              i still use the ssh server with sshfs as a cloud-like storage for uploading things from my phone and work computers like pics and for downloading media like music and videos; although i’ve been gradually weaning myself off that via social media content so that now i barely use it at all besides as an ssh tunnel.

              the add blocking alone makes the effort worth while for me and i’ve gotten so used to it that i can no longer tolerate adds when i have to to use other people’s rigs; it’s makes me strangely angry somehow. lol

              i created this post about how i have it setup; but this time around i’m going to replace the windows vm behind the pfsense vm with a physical AP since that’s the part of the stack that’s the most proned to breaking. i’m not to enthused about doing so because i have a high gain antennae attached the internal wifi nic that i was using as an AP, so i got GREAT signal for really long distances and even into the underground parking lot of my apartment building and the beach nearby, but i rarely ever us it as such so it’s hard justifying the headache to myself.

              • irmadlad@lemmy.worldEnglish
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                2 days ago

                i’ve rebuilt this server multiple times each time i encountered a “gotcha” or a surprise that i had not anticipated and it made some needful component stop working

                I feel that. LOL I will reinstall something over and over until I get to the finished project without ‘gotchas’. Probably, most of mine are benign, but I don’t want to always have it in the back of my head that something I did during set up is now hindering me in the present.

  • TechnoCat@lemmy.ml
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    17 days ago

    Put graphene on my phone and really like it.

    Moved chat with my partner to signal.

    Germany came out again against chat control.

      • pmk@lemmy.sdf.org
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        16 days ago

        A good thing was also that Germany officially said that “suspicionless surveillance must be taboo in states that have rule of law”. This indicates it’s a firm position and not a flimsy “maybe tomorrow…” position.

  • Stick@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    17 days ago

    I’m using Graphene OS since a week. It is a blast! I can only recommend it!

    For my girlfriend I set up e/OS on a Fairphone 5. Until now she is not really interested. But will see :D

    My privacy win was also to migrate a small WhatsApp group to Signal!😎

  • Gonzako@lemmy.world
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    17 days ago

    I can finally pin-point what gave away the latest game I played. I was playing 2077 and their launch client problaby sold the data about my steam account.

  • りん〜@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    17 days ago

    Nice! I recently set up adguard home on my local network 😎 I’m also self hosting my own audio server with navidrome. Now I don’t have to deal with spotify :D

  • Era0S@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    16 days ago

    I somehow keep getting people interested in switching from Windows to Linux with a decently higher conversion rate compared to my friends; and it happened again today so I count that as a recent win.

  • Mike@lemmy.world
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    17 days ago

    Sold all my Apple devices, bought a second hand Pixel 8a and am running GrapheneOS on it. Bought a second hand Thinkpad T14 and am running Fedora on it. Subscribed for a year to Proton and activated VPN Killswitch on all my devices. Next up will be to learn how to selfhost Nextcloud, Syncthing and Immich. 😁