Do Invidious embeds offer any privacy benefit over YouTube embeds?

Firefox has a number of extensions that replace and redirect certain services to privacy-respecting alternatives. These are great -- I love having YouTube links automatically redirected to FreeTube, for instance.

However, I'm not sure what benefit, if any there is in replacing embedded YouTube videos. When I load an embedded YouTube video Google gets my IP address. Do they get any other information? ETP Strict should keep any cookie cross-contamination at bay, right?

Because by default (videos not proxied), Invidious embeds...would also send my IP address to Google, right? I'm not too worried about my IP address, but I want to make sure I'm not missing any other difference between YouTube and Invidious embeds.

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Passwords

Is locked notes on iPhone a safe place to store your passwords?
Thanks

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Best Way To Use Burner Phone Numbers - How Many Lines And Do You Recycle?

I have MySudo with 1 phone line.

Is it worth it to get multiple lines? How do you decide which number to use for which website? Do you use 1 number for each type of browsing or split a type of activity across multiple numbers?

Do you you keep the same number forever or do you change numbers frequently like every year?

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pCloud as cloud storage?

I cannot self-host my own cloud server right now, so I found pCloud as an option for cloud storage. I need Windows file explorer integration like OneDrive or GDrive, which removed ProtonDrive as an option. I was going to look for Nextcloud hosts, until I found that pCloud has 10 GB free storage. What do you guys think about it, privacy wise?

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pCloud as cloud storage?

I cannot self-host my own cloud server right now, so I found pCloud as an option for cloud storage. I need Windows file explorer integration like OneDrive or GDrive, which removed ProtonDrive as an option. I was going to look for Nextcloud hosts, until I found that pCloud has 10 GB free storage. What do you guys think about it, privacy wise?

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pCloud as cloud storage?

I cannot self-host my own cloud server right now, so I found pCloud as an option for cloud storage. I need Windows file explorer integration like OneDrive or GDrive, which removed ProtonDrive as an option. I was going to look for Nextcloud hosts, until I found that pCloud has 10 GB free storage. What do you guys think about it, privacy wise?

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any good reliable, private and or secure alternatives to Google Docs?

I've been using Google docs for regular everyday note-taking on things I'm learning about, books I've read, courses I've done online etc for several years. I haven't and don't store any sensitive information or personally identifiable info whatsoever, though I know google has some of that on their end and if I'm not mistaken they track you on other sites as well that you visit.

The primary reasons I've been using Google Docs is due to its simplicity, convenience, and because I have unlimited storage under my account because its an educational account that I essentially have for life from an old school I attended several years back. And yes, the privacy terms for the account does state that the administrator of the account (whoever manages it on my old schools end) can access and or view any data I upload to that account, (I know, major red flag).

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But yeah TL;DR I wanna make the switch from Google docs to a similar more private and or secure alternative that I can use for everyday note-taking.

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Hermit Lite Apps - For Sandboxing Apps On Android

I know webapps from fdroid has been recommended for turning sites into webapps, but what do people here think of Hermit - Lite Apps?

It's not open source but the owner has stated they are not selling data to anyone.

It seems like Hermit is saying they are more secure because they are creating an actual sand box environemnt vs webapps which just manages cookies to make it seem like they are sandbox.

What do people here think of using webapps and PWA vs Apps from the Play Store? Are webapps/PWA much more secure?

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is there a privacy frontend for Dailymotion?

is there a privacy frontend for Dailymotion, like Invidious is to YouTube?

Thanks.

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Privacy oriented rss feed that I can put my own links and turn them into a rss feed

Hello. I'm not looking for something too feature rich, I don't mind if it has a lot features but not looking for them right now.

I want to be able to copy a link and paste it into an app then be able to read is as a rss feed. If the app has a feature to categorize rss feeds I could enjoy it a bit but if not then that's ok.

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Privacy oriented rss feed that I can put my own links and turn them into a rss feed

Hello. I'm not looking for something too feature rich, I don't mind if it has a lot features but not looking for them right now.

I want to be able to copy a link and paste it into an app then be able to read is as a rss feed. If the app has a feature to categorize rss feeds I could enjoy it a bit but if not then that's ok.

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Local CDN emulation

I've just become aware of CDN emulators like Decentraleyes and LocalCDN recently, and hope some of you can you can shed some light on the ins and outs of them.


Firefox: As far as I can tell, LocalDNS is the recommended option here. Forked from Decentraleyes, it adds more support and is more up-to-date.
Chromium: For Chromium-based browsers such as Brave it seems things are a bit less clear. LocalCDN doesn't cover as well on Chromium - but is it still recommended over Decentraleyes?
Mobile: Is there any way of achieving local CDN emulation on mobile? Either for iOS or Android?


Feel free to add other aspects if there's something I'm missing!

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Privacy help for enthusiastic novice

# Privacy hardening

## My background

I have one main gmail/google account (used since 2011) that I use for internet accounts and youtube, and another account (used since 2019) that I use for personal human email. My new strategy for internet accounts is using SimpleLogin for email forwarding to a protonmail address, and a separate protonmail address for personal human email.

I have a facebook account that I've used since 2007 or 2008 and an Instagram account. I may keep the Instagram account since it's mainly for sharing dumb animal videos with my friends, and that seems within my comfort level, but feel free to share why this may be worse than I realize.

I have multiple reddit accounts and a Discord account.

## Plan and roadblocks (your input is requested)

1. I need to go through my gmail account and transfer every login (that I wish to keep) to SimpleLogin. This will probably be a slow process over weeks to months. An issue is that it seems risky to really put all my eggs into the SimpleLogin basket, since there's a possibility they may one day not exist. (To their credit, SimpleLogin has given reassuring answers to this common concern here and in their FAQ.)

A possible solution for this is that I could self-host SimpleLogin on a VPS. Self-hosting email is inherently risky for something as important as email, but they provide docker containers (I still would need to configure PostFix myself) and it seems possible that I could set it and forget it. I am curious what you all think about this.

2. I need to setup Prism for hosting all my photos that I download off Google and Facebook. Before that, I need to complete my 3-2-1 backup strategy with an off-site backup. Currently I just have a separate mirror drive that rsyncs weekly. What is your strategy for picture hosting?
3. How should I treat reddit? I assume that at a certain point, Reddit can confidently figure out who I am, even if I use an email alias and a VPN most of the time. I have thought about just making a new Reddit account every few months.
4. Discord spooks me the most. So much interpersonal conversation is happening on this unsecure platform. Should I ditch it?

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Streaming on Twitch.tv

Hello,

I want to stream on Twitch but I want to be as private as possible (which might be next to impossible). I will use OBS and a V*N. My question is where I can get good stream overlays (donations, chat, etc.) which will keep my data as private as possible. I know streamlabs and streamelements but they are bad privacy wide. What would you suggest? Thanks in advance!

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Nexcloud on hosted

Hello, So I recently came across some posts using nextcloud. But the problem is that I don't want and have no idea how to host a nextcloud instance on my home. I saw several posts about hetzner nextcloud and it's pretty cheap, about 5€ for 1TB, what's the catch??? I've sent and email about encryptions and that and their answer was " Even if you do not encrypt the files on your Nextcloud instance we still cannot access the webinterface of your Nextcloud as we do not know the login credentials of your accounts. " .

My problem relays on privacy, I'm using cryptomator, but for photos is not good, since there is no miniatures.

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Are you guys encrypting your photos etc?

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Thanks and sorry for beying so bring in this subject.

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Can you override/ flash an Alexa Echo dot?

I have not found anything so far but is there a way to delete the Alexa software on an Echo Dot and install Mycroft or something more privacy focused on it?
I tried to use mycroft on a Pi but had problems with the voice and audio.

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Can you override/ flash an Alexa Echo dot?

I have not found anything so far but is there a way to delete the Alexa software on an Echo Dot and install Mycroft or something more privacy focused on it?
I tried to use mycroft on a Pi but had problems with the voice and audio.

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How can I stop Facebook from adding text to links?

I want to copy the Facebook links; however, Facebook adds useless text to them.

Privacy Badger could clean the links, but uBlock Origin could not. However, due to the recommendations I uninstalled Privacy Badger and only stayed with uBO.

Is there a list that I can add to uBlock Origin for this purpose? Or do I just need to reinstall Privacy Badger?

I'm subscribed to the Actually Legitimate URL Shortener Tool and ClearURLs for uBo lists.

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iPhone from employer

I'm about to receive an iPhone from my employer, which I can use as personal smartphone.

I was wondering, how safe will using it be, as in, what sorts of data can the employer finds out about me, and what are some precautions/ best practices I can do to prevent this?

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iPhone from employer

I'm about to receive an iPhone from my employer, which I can use as personal smartphone.

I was wondering, how safe will using it be, as in, what sorts of data can the employer finds out about me, and what are some precautions/ best practices I can do to prevent this?

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iPhone from employer

I'm about to receive an iPhone from my employer, which I can use as personal smartphone.

I was wondering, how safe will using it be, as in, what sorts of data can the employer finds out about me, and what are some precautions/ best practices I can do to prevent this?

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