I wouldn’t use it.

Seems to me like free plan is what browsers natively support anyway. (Scam site blacklist. I highly suspect they use the same. They can’t compete with the one Google hosts and all major browsers integrate.)

And instead of paying 15 usd per month, Windows defender is a well funded, well established, well trusted solution.

There’s no practical gain in blockage before download. Windows defender scans upon and after download, before execution.

Firefox having an empty check box on Blocks cross-site trackers is a lie.

Docs Enhanced Tracking Protection in Firefox for desktop

Ignoring isolation is misleading - in this marketing context a plain lie.

They could have made a differentiation between all-blocked vs some-blocked, but empty indicates none are blocked, which is a lie.

A public forever storage of all transactions is not good but bad for privacy.

Send money to someone and they can see your wallet and all transactions.

Identifying wallet owners may require different levels of effort. But that’s kinda besides the point.

Their comment started with mentioning laws. That’s more than betting on only kindness.

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Act now

I was expecting some suggestions to act or unite in opposition. The linked post has none of that though, despite its title. It’s a rant/criticism, not a call to action.

I assume this is about the hosted platform WordPress.com, not the software you and others can host and offer.

You can use RSS feeds to know about new videos, and any feed reader/manager like Feedbro to manage them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Altman#Other_endeavors

Another CEO resigned, and he took over (for eight days).

You can export your reddit data. There’s no simple, existing way to replicate it on Lemmy though.

The export is machine readable, so scripting a loop that creates posts from it would be viable and reasonably doable.

Article says they claim to be GDPR compliant.

That’s specifically what they don’t do. They collect statistics, not individuals.

Even the positive result in your first point I am skeptical of. Advertisements have a huge selection bias on what they show you. Even if it’s the topic you want, I’d be concerned about correctness, reasonability, viability. The highest bidder shows me ads, does that mean it’s the most expensive option? Most wasteful? Most manipulative into other spending or into vendor or thinking lock-in?

Note that I said 7-zip, not zip. Are you making that claim for 7-zip?

Do you have a source for the brute forcing? Because I’m interested. If it’s actually being done I doubt it’d go beyond predefined common password lists or exploiting non-secure passwording.

When you talk about network setup and IP addresses you have to differentiate between your local network (between your end devices and router) and the “outside”. Your devices connect to the internet through the router.

The IP gateway setting is your end device setting of which gateway to send packets through. You set it to your router. Whether this is done automatically (via “DHCP”) or not doesn’t make a difference in the end.

The netmask defines the network address space size. It’s also something you don’t need to change to set/change a DNS.

Where did you try to change the DNS setting? On your end devices would be enough. On your router it should also be a simple setting independent of other and of IP settings. (If the router allows configuration of it.)

(Did you set a static IP on your router, facing your local network, or the internet (would have to be provided by the ISP), or your end device within the local network (this is not necessary for DNS)? Either way I don’t see why it would be necessary to set a static IP address anywhere.)

You can 7-zip it with a password. That’s pretty simple to do and use - you only need an archiving program that supports it and can send that file and share the password.

So you want to encrypt it?

That’s a very broad question.

Privacy related: Adguard as DNS server, Firefox with uBlock

A bunch of Windows stuff disabled (Web search etc)

Where do you live? Whether you can use your own modem or not may differ. What the isp can or must do differs too.

I’ll interpret “privacy at risk” as normal user privacy, with responses reasonable for normal citizens in a western/EU region (I can’t confidently speak for others).

A modem is usually a “stupid” device or component. It is configured for the adequate transmission settings. It’s not a concern.

The router is often rented and managed (and updated) by the isp. Replacing it with your own, a bought product not from the isp, and managing it yourself is a reasonable and relatively simple thing to do. I wouldn’t call it necessary. It’s the extra with extra effort. Installing your own open firmware is extra extra.

The simplest, most effective thing you can do for privacy is change the dns server of your devices. Instead of using your default routers isp provided one, use a privacy focused/mindful one. You can use one that does not resolve ad hostnames for additional significant benefit.

When you don’t use the isp dns and use secure connections the isp already has no open protocol to snoop through. If they or another party at their endpoint wanted to snoop they can only use IP addresses which may vary in usefulness or attempt other more sophisticated tracking and analysis. A VPN would hide even the IP addressing - which is usually not necessary.

I’ve been using Posteo for years. I can recommend.