Pretty Simple Privacy

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A new project to promote awareness for online privacy aspects, and to share simple tools and methods to reduce your digital footprint in the internet.

Based in Switzerland.

Tired of Gboard sending your keystrokes to Google? FUTO Keyboard is a fully offline Android keyboard with built-in voice-to-text — no internet connection, ever. Swipe typing, autocorrect, and Whisper-based speech recognition, all on-device.

🔗 https://keyboard.futo.org

#Android #privacy #keyboard #digitalprivacy

FUTO Keyboard

FUTO Keyboard is a modern, privacy-focused keyboard that runs fully offline. Enjoy swipe typing, autocorrect, predictive text, and more—no internet connection required.

GrapheneOS just shipped Speech Services — a fully open source, on-device TTS engine for the custom ROM. Great to finally see native TTS in a privacy-focused OS.

By @GrapheneOS
🔗 https://github.com/GrapheneOS/SpeechServices

#GrapheneOS #privacy #Android #opensource

GitHub - GrapheneOS/SpeechServices: Fast, efficient, and high-quality text-to-speech for GrapheneOS using state-of-the-art models running completely on-device.

Fast, efficient, and high-quality text-to-speech for GrapheneOS using state-of-the-art models running completely on-device. - GrapheneOS/SpeechServices

GitHub

The industry that profits from harvesting your personal data is about to cross $1 trillion. Meta and Google are racing each other to the top of that pile.

By Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/meta-poised-surpass-google-digital-ad-revenue-first-time-report-says-2026-04-13/

#privacy #adtech #surveillance #digitalprivacy

A US Senate report finds data brokers deliberately design opt-out processes to fail — in some cases requiring a paid subscription just to find your own listings.

By US Senate Joint Economic Committee
https://www.jec.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/7f821956-d826-4241-8196-be987cc1f06c/2026-02-27-jec-data-brokers-report-final.pdf

#privacy #databrokers #digitalprivacy #surveillance

A deep dive into how behavioral advertising became the internet's dominant business model — and what it costs us in privacy.

By The Privacy Issue
https://theprivacyissue.com/data-tracking/big-business-ad-tech

#privacy #adtech #surveillance #digitalprivacy

The Big Business of Ad Tech

How did our personal lives end up powering the industry?

The Privacy Issue
How OTP bots work and what you can do to outsmart them | Proton

OTP bots exploit one-time passwords for account takeover attacks. Learn how to protect your business and customers.

Proton

Practical guide on using cloud storage securely — encryption, sharing practices, and why E2EE matters for everyday users.

By All Things Secured
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahk9z0ZoCT8

#cloudstorage #digitalprivacy #encryption #cybersecurity

How to Use Cloud Storage Better than 99% of People

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🍪🎉 noyb win: The Federal Administrative Court confirmed that the buttons to ‘accept’ or ‘reject’ tracking cookies on ORF.at must be designed equally. 🥳 Learn more: https://noyb.eu/en/noyb-success-orfat-must-correct-misleading-cookie-banner #privacy #austria #cookies

"Privacy is dead" is not just a hopeless take. It's an engineered response from years of people losing hope that couldn't be further from the truth.

I discussed the dangerous narrative and the small things that actually fight back.
YouTube: https://youtu.be/G_meB00Vdhw

Watch on PeerTube away from Google: https://techlore.tv/w/4QxudKhzas2qEZ9rjQ7tUs

Why Even Smart People Think Privacy Is Dead

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@PrettySimplePrivacy @techlore
Will still recommend using Signal, XMPP, SimpleX, Matrix or any other encrypted chat service than trusting Google or Apple. (Haven’t watched the video yet but I’m pretty sure most privacy advocates will agree with me)

Still, it’s good that we’re raising the baseline of iOS to Android communication. Even if it’s only by a little.