Don't forget to check your Amazon Alexa privacy settings to disable personalized ads, and for using your Alexa data for ads. Likewise, you can have it to where while Amazon keeps a log of what is said, it won't save voice recordings.
BoisZoi
joined 1 year ago
It definitely is! It has helped me so much with the clusterfuck that is REGEX and figuring out what I did wrong 🙃
Nice! On iOS/iPadOS, I use "StopTheMadness Pro" to set up redirects, and it makes watching YouTube, TikTok, etc. videos that family sends to me so much more bearable!
Same, but with Microsoft's Image Creator. At least for me, I like using it to create pixel art for my own personal GitHub repos.
More power to you man!
Firefox Relay and email relaying/forwarding services are so useful, not just from a privacy point of view, but also being in control of accounts simply by turning off forwarding for a specific email, or just deleting the forwarding email all together. I use iCloud's Hide My Email.
The process of trying to separate from Google is tough for sure. I believe Louis Rossmann said "it like quitting heroin cold turkey; you can't, it's something you have to lean yourself off of slowly". In my case, Google Photos, Docs and Voice are the most difficult to switch from, but in the case of Google Photos and Docs, I have multiple backups in the event something happens to my account.
Was it HP by chance? I wouldn't blame you.
I definitely feel the enshittification of such platforms will/has led to some great software, updates, and alternative front ends. It sucks seeing platforms decay, however, I love seeing the fightback from users who aren't going to tolerate bullshit from any company.
Nice setup + great Wi-Fi for steaming, downloading, etc. congrats!
Nice internet setup! Do you use Adguard DNS/Home, or a Pihole? The amount of telemetry that IoT devices can send is crazy! I put my families Roku on my Adguard DNS, and it, no joke, sent a request to Google and Roku every 10 seconds. Echo Dots and Fire TVs also send a lot of telemetry, even with privacy options on.
If you subscribe to RSS feeds that sometimes due ads in the form of articles (looking at you daringfireball); services like SiftRSS let you use Regex to filter out titles that match (i.e., sponsor, sponsorship) so you only get organic content.