No offence but isn’t a very similar policy about banning end-to-end encryption also in talk in the EU

Absolutely don’t agree with it, will be the beginning of the end for privacy but this is more of a European wide (and even world wide) push for a close to e2e encryption

I use Firefox (librewolf) on desktop and Brave on mobile, its privacy respecting (with the right options) and has a quite a few things built in to block ads and trackers

Could just get a pcie to nvme m.2 adapter, think Sabrent does a pretty good one

Though it depends on you having spare pcie slots (I’m not 100% sure but I believe the speeds should still be better than sata but you’d have to check)

In a way this does make me slightpy concerned about Lemmy servers, Reddit has a team of lawyers and tonnes of funds behind it to fight pointless demands like these

A lot of server owners won’t and will be much easier to coax into giving up information about it’s users

Sorry misunderstood your comment, yeah Threads/Meta is god awful for collecting data wouldn’t want to touch them personally

There definitely is money in it for Meta though, just yesterday there was quite a popular post showing the types of data that is available to both users and instance owners. If one wanted to they could use things such as your upvotes and down votes to build a sort of profile about you, your political affiliations, interests etc

Meta isn’t just a problem, ad companies can easily set up an instance to start collecting data from other servers

Honestly if you’re using Lemmy all this information is already publicly accessible, any public forum isnt privacy friendly

Yeah absolutely, I think people really need to understand that Meta won’t be the last to try to integrate with the Fediverse, as it grows it’s unfortunately unstoppable that ad companies (as well as more malicious actors) will start harvesting as much useful user data as they can

People need to be more careful with what they post as even small things like who has upvoted/downvoted a comment is viewable

No, users still see content from defederated instances

For example BeeHaw has defederated from lemmy.world however lemmy.world users are still perfectly able to see posts from BeeHaw communities, they just can’t interact with them

The point Is if you’re wanting to Defedrate from Threads from a privacy perspective you’re achieving nothing

If you’re defederating/blocking Threads because you don’t want to see their content or want their users interacting with you/your instance then fair enough

Correct me if I’m wrong but defederating only stops us from being able to view posts from Threads, our posts/comments will still be completely accessible to Threadz/Meta

In terms of “protecting” your data from Meta, defederating will achieve nothing

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Yes at one point they were bundling crypto miners within their releases, I’m not too sure if they still do however there’s a lot of trust and reputation within the Piracy community

Also the fact they’ve done it once makes it very possible for them to do it again (though I’ve got no idea if they even stopped bundling malware and cryptominers)

1337x demoted them at one point for their shady practices

EEE famously doesnt work very well, Microsoft who coined the phrase even gave up on it after a number of unsuccessful attempts

I wish people would stop spamming EEE

Few critiques, not personally towards you at all but I really don’t think people should follow this approach

People can have hundreds of different passwords across various sites this really isn’t achievable

Human memory is terrible as well, it’s not a matter of if you forget it’s when

Storing in a standard notes file is absolutely terrible security, it’s also extremely unusable once you have more than a couple passwords

I really suggest to people using a password manager, most of them have apps for your phone and plugins for your web browser to allow you to autofill. They also allow you to randomly generate passphrases/codes for different sites and the autofill means you never have to remember a single one whilst having extremely strong passwords

I’d recommend looking into either Bitwarden or 1Password

You absolutely should look about moving away from LastPass and to something such as Bitwarden/1Password

LastPass has had major security breach a while back and plays very fast and loose with it’s security. It is not recommended

It absolutely shouldn’t be possible compromised or not for someone who has gained unlawful access to start pushing malicious code to production as long as proper security is in place

It seem the pinned thread has been removed discussing the change of megathread on r/Piracy (as far as I can see), it had a link to a new megathread, stating that a mod had write access to the previous one and had started writing comments about the new mod team (though personally I could not see any such comments in the megathread)

It might have been some kind of mistake or misunderstanding then?

I do kind of think Reddit will be very hesitant about assigning mods to piracy subreddits since it might look like them encouraging piracy

In all honesty in surprised Reddit hasn’t been more heavy handed removing subs like these

The wiki on r/piracy is just the megathread, as far as I know they’re one and the same

I think people on r/piracy need to see the writing on the wall. Reddit is getting rid of 3rd party clients, is obviously not happy with large subs swapping to NSFW content and is trying to push for things to be as advertiser friendly as possible

At some point they’re going to go after piracy subs more aggressively which is probably why it’s better to make the switch earlier rather than later

I see a lot of comments there saying when that happens “they’ll just make a new sub” missing the fact once Reddit starts banning piracy users/subs the new ones that spring up in its place will only last a week or two before being banned again

I feel like 90% of the questions on there anyway are just pointless if people actually read the megathread

“What is a good site for movies”, “how do I torrent”, “should I use a VPN” “help I’ve got a virus”

All questions that get repeated daily