BigTechBlows Jul 8, 2023

What have you done lately to increase your privacy?

https://mander.xyz/post/1054063

What have you done lately to increase your privacy? - Mander

In the last week: I started using Syncthing. I was using cloud storage as a way of copying files from one device to another. Syncthing is so much better. I signed up with Mullvad VPN yesterday. Deleted my Surfshark account today which I signed up with over two years ago when I didn’t care about privacy. Finally convinced my sister to start using Signal.

Show threadPrivateOnionsJul 8, 2023
I deleted Whatsapp but created a photoshopped screenshot of Whatsapp banning my account so that everybody around me thinks it is involuntary, going to try to get them to switch to Signal soon. Wish me luck
Show threadBigTechBlows Jul 8, 2023
That’s hilarious. Has it worked?
Show threadPrivateOnions
I will find out in a few days if it will work. I am unfortunately in the US so most people just use SMS/iMessage but within my social circle most used Whatsapp. Hopefully they install Signal instead of just texting via SMS
Jul 8, 2023 at 9:08pmWeb
Show threadanon_waterJul 8, 2023
Lmao I think you might be needing new friends.
Show threadPrivateOnionsJul 8, 2023
Optimal solution to everything isn’t it?
Show threadBagginsJul 9, 2023

Hopefully they install Signal instead of just texting via SMS

Good luck with that. I got one person to move to Signal.

My work team uses WhatsApp for group messages re shifts etc. SMS just doesn’t cut it for that, so I have to use WA.

Also, we have a family group on there.

Could be worse, the part time job I did recently used Teams 😒