To be fair, even a skilled users may just not notice something like this. There are many things we do in our day to day life without paying enough attention, particularly when it's routine / something we feel adept using.
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List of Canadian Alternatives to American owned media pretending to be Canadian, infiltrating Canadian culture and politics
I hate to post another comment, but another great tool for media reading in general is RSS feed aggregators. Yes they can be janky, but it is the easiest way to explicitly choose what media you receive, rather than relying on algorithms in news apps / social media to dictate all that you read.
NetNewsWire is a great option for Apple devices Feedbro integrates into your web browser And Feeder is the one I use on my Android phone.
Here is a general comparison list on Wikipedia of different feed aggregators.
If you are a bit more technically inclined, I highly recommend hosting your own feed aggregator online (allowing you to sync your saved articles / read articles between devices, and better battery life on mobile devices). The two apps I usually see recommended for this are tt-rss "Tiny Tiny RSS" as well as FreshRSS.
I think it isn't the most useful spam reduction method as lemmy.ca and I'm assuming Pixelfed.ca federate with a block list rather than an allowlist. Bad actors can always run a new instance to bypas bans etc., even positioning the instances as valid moderated instances for a while before launching bot attacks.
I also think part of the joy of using a platform like lemmy is the pseudo-anonymous nature of the platform. That type of government identity verification begins to compromise that a bit, but maybe I have a more extreme view on the option of pseudo-anonymity being a paragon of the free internet.
Edit: Just to note I am not a lemmy.ca account, but I am a Canadian (which is in part why I picked sh.itjust.works, another Canadian owned instance)
I find it's just a lot of effort to go through visual customization for very little benefit, I have spent more time creating rootless podman images for certain apps, custom scripts, keybinds etc.
What I mean to say is there's likely many people who customize functionality of their systems one way or another — without ever touching the visual side of things much beside maybe changing the font or turning dark mode on.
Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeline Thien was a great read. It was shortlisted for the Booker prize, won the Governor General's award and won the Giller prize that year.
I also can highly recommend Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese, which was a finalist for CBCs "Canada Reads".
Overall I'd highly recommend looking at the GG and Giller for authors, as well as CBCs "Canada Reads". For Canada Reads, we also have the shortlisted books for this year's edition already!
As with any map app, when the app is in the foreground it uses location data to position you on the map. Most of the transit authorities also have public APIs for locating their vehicles which the app uses in conjunction with user location data to provide more accurate transit arrival time (and inherently is how they can know if you're taking transit)
They do state in their privacy policy that location data isn't linked to your personal information, nor is it sold to third parties. Their model solely relies on user / transit authority subscriptions. Of course, this still requires you to trust their data processing, but I feel like they adequately provide useful transit features with said location data.
Edit: I should also add you don't need to make an account, in which case location data cannot be tied to any personal user data and you are still admissible for the free subscription offered by select transit authorities.
I am not entirely sure, for me there's an option to email them if I believe I am admissible and haven't been added. I don't take transit enough to be admissible however, I usually just walk. I will have to ask some of my friends who have it if it was a fully automatic process for them or if it was manual (in my case, OC Transpo / STO)
Edit: I just opened the app to check and I am now a Royale member, so it is automatic. I take transit only once a week I'd say.
I'm not surprised by the corporate network, it's pretty common for those types of networks to severely block inter-device LAN communication. There are two solutions however, for one, KDEconnect has initial Bluetooth support. I think it only support Plasma and Android as of now, and could be documented better, but it does avoid the LAN access problems. The other solution is using a VPN, the easiest off the shelf solution being Tailscale, but I feel this is only worth it if you have multiple use cases for it (I use it for faster Syncthing transfers, Moonlight / Sunshine game streaming. And KDEconnect)
I really wish KDEConnect "just worked", similar to how Apple's devices connect to one another, but I guess this is the price you pay sometimes for an open source cross platform solution.
For sending things to devices I use KDE Connect. I realize it is a fundamentally different application, but it is what I use generally to send / receive links between devices, as well as documents, images etc. It also is good for notification mirroring, and really just integrating Android devices into Windows / Linux computers.
For passwords I used KeePass (and I sync them between devices with SyncThing), but I usually recommend Bitwarden (which is what I used to use). Both are open source, have apps for all platforms, can integrate into your browser if you choose. The main advantage of Bitwarden is that it is open source, all necessary features are free, and you can host the server yourself if you want. It also integrates into some services, notably email aliasing ones, to allow you to generate new emails every time you make a new account.
For bookmarks / history your best bet is the extension everyone else is recommending here!
I am just curious if anyone here changes it from the default (disabled) state. Would you say the telemetry data is particularly useful to the developers & respectful to the user? I generally disable all telemetry even on open source software but I am happy to hear people's arguments for enabling some of it if it helps the developers in a privacy respecting way.
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I'm going to suggest an alternative to Samsung Internet or Firefox : https://github.com/uazo/cromite
Out of the options I've tried, it's probably the best bet for reducing tracking, fingerprinting & increasing security without turning to Tor browser (which while it is more anonymous, is frustrating for general browsing)
For clearing cache, there are two options. There's a dedicated clear browsing data button in the hamburger menu, it can also be configured to "sanitize on close" (similar to Firefox on desktop, or Brave on desktop / mobile) [In cromite, this can be found under Security > Clear the data at open]
I can't recommend Firefox on Android in good faith, until site isolation (fission) is enabled on the platform. This is a major security regression compared to desktop Firefox, or chromium based browsers on Android
Edit: It seems like Iron Fox (continuation of Mull / fork of Firefox) has site isolation enabled - but it is still buggy and does not have all features enabled e.g no isolated process SELinux labels.