bruzzard

joined 1 year ago
[–] bruzzard@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago (2 children)

This is old news, from 2022!!

 

Is there a GUI which I can just click and disable and enable packages debugging Samsung Android phones? I heard that there are options which are much simpler than vanilla ADB. I just want to get rid ofll the Samsung/Google/Meta bloat prepackaged with the phone. Appreciate any pointers/advice.

[–] bruzzard@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

You seddit right!!

[–] bruzzard@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

My gripe with Greenify is its not open sourced amd has a bunch trackers. https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/com.oasisfeng.greenify/latest/

[–] bruzzard@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They are the caricature of organised religions.

[–] bruzzard@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Google is paying copius sums of money to in AdBlock Plus (asuming this is the extension you are speaking about), makes sense to avoid it completely and run uBlock Origin.

https://www.insider.com/why-google-has-to-build-its-own-adblocker-2017-4

[–] bruzzard@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Use Pixel Droid. Download from F-Droid.

[–] bruzzard@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I am with you. I do wish we lived in an ideal world and in ideal times.

[–] bruzzard@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

State-approved "peaceful protest" is not protest. This post is a criticism over the idea of state-approved dissent and isnt about condoning violence.

[–] bruzzard@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Unless you want to run communities there I wont bother with it. I feel everything from setting up accounts (anonymously) to getting people to join, works better in SimpleX and Session. I'd even be happy using SimpleX as my everyday messenger. Matrix is a little clunky and the fact that all conversations get duplicated on the primary Matrix servers is cause for concern.

With Signal and SimpleX, servers are used only for relaying messages beteeen users - messages which are encrypted on the device.

In the end you are going to be sacrificing something, and the last thing you'd want to sacrifice is privacy and security.

If I was pushed to list my go to, it'll be Signal for chats with people I know: because its open source, battle-tested against adversities, and can be set up by anyone who understands how ro use Whastsapp / Telegram.

For communitties (and even as a daily text solution beteeen collaborators or anyone you dont want to exchange numbers with), I'd use SimpleX as it has a lot of in-built anonymity and decent privacy (so far - its a fairly new project).

Theres just too much fuzziness round Matrix for anyone to trust it.

[–] bruzzard@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Telegram is neither private nor secure. Its not encrypted bu default. Normal texts as well as group chat is stored unencrypted on its servers.

For everyday use with friends, family and work (assuming these folks already have your number), Signal may be the best thing out there as its open source both on server and app levels. Signal is also end to end encrypted (E2EE) with decryption keys stored on device.

For anonymous communications Session and SimpleX may be better as they are both E2EE and doesnt requie a phone number as an identifier.

Just chuck out Whatsapp, Telegram and all the other closed sourced garbage apps.

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