@Ayzacoder: Attention if you have a Gmail account:
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@shwell1 @dbattistella You need to erase Firefox from that list, and make sure you use the noai version of DDG. Brave is a good alternative to FF.
@MiaMarkTwo @shwell1 @dbattistella "But yeah, if you are a big fan of AI and crypto, and are okay with having advertisements in the user interface out of the box, are okay with past attempts to steal money from websites and collect donations towards people who wouldn’t necessarily even receive it, plus you can put up with occasional privacy mistakes… use Brave!"
https://blog.alexseifert.com/2025/04/06/why-i-recommend-against-brave/
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@MiaMarkTwo @shwell1 @dbattistella "But yeah, if you are a big fan of AI and crypto, and are okay with having advertisements in the user interface out of the box, are okay with past attempts to steal money from websites and collect donations towards people who wouldn’t necessarily even receive it, plus you can put up with occasional privacy mistakes… use Brave!"
https://blog.alexseifert.com/2025/04/06/why-i-recommend-against-brave/
@phaedral @shwell1 @dbattistella Wow, I didn't know *any* of that. Thanks.
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@MiaMarkTwo @shwell1 @dbattistella "But yeah, if you are a big fan of AI and crypto, and are okay with having advertisements in the user interface out of the box, are okay with past attempts to steal money from websites and collect donations towards people who wouldn’t necessarily even receive it, plus you can put up with occasional privacy mistakes… use Brave!"
https://blog.alexseifert.com/2025/04/06/why-i-recommend-against-brave/
@phaedral @shwell1 @dbattistella Doesn't change what I said about Firefox though.
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@phaedral @shwell1 @dbattistella Doesn't change what I said about Firefox though.
@MiaMarkTwo @shwell1 @dbattistella Agreed!
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@BlueBrogues @dbattistella Librewolf is an excellent degoogled Firefox fork with the antifeatures stripped out
@LukefromDC @dbattistella I have Tor , Vivaldi and Ungoogled Chromium and i use Mojeek search , DuckDuckgo . I have zero computer background , I am retired never worked in a office, if I ask my mates anything about tech they look at me as if I have two heads but I get there in the end
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco/117022017506413341
@phaedral @shwell1 @dbattistella This just popped up on my feed, in case you're interested
https://syzito.xyz/@404mediaco@mastodon.social/117022017505721580
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@dbattistella damn, turns out I'd already done this, so at least in theory they're not allowed to do this shit (though I mean let's be real they'll do it anyway but I don't have the time or money to fully switch away from corporate email platforms)
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5. Move Sensitive Emails
Turning off Gmail's smart features helps, but for truly private emails, consider using a separate service.
For medical, legal, or financial emails, use a free Proton Mail account. It offers end-to-end encryption and doesn't use AI to scan your emails.
Keep Gmail for newsletters, promotions, and less sensitive messages.
@dbattistella
My husband and I use tuta (@Tutanota) for sending encrypted email. The account also includes a calendar.I started with a free account just to test it out and then moved to the paid tier to get some more features.
No affiliation with the company, just a customer.
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@jfmblinux @dbattistella cool, are you gonna start sending me 100€ a year so I can afford enough storage for all the emails to switch off of Gmail?
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@shwell1 @dbattistella most people still need the Play Store for banking apps and other bullshit like that
Also soon it might be legally required to use it (or an iPhone) to like, have access to all the bureaucracy you need in order to exist in Europe 🥲
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@shwell1 @dbattistella this seems pretty old cause iirc Ecosia turned out to basically be a scam and DeepL switched over to LLM-based garbage generation (among other things)
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@Ayzacoder: Attention if you have a Gmail account:
Google's AI now scans your emails and attachments, bank statements, tax files, medical letters, all of it. It turned on by default, and there's a class-action lawsuit over how.
Here are 5 moves to shut it off, the switch is hidden in two places:
@dbattistella Super helpful. Had already switched completely elsewhere (paid TutaMail - Legend level allowed big imports) but it’s great to clean up the remaining permissions prior to full deletion. Thank you!
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@Ayzacoder: Attention if you have a Gmail account:
Google's AI now scans your emails and attachments, bank statements, tax files, medical letters, all of it. It turned on by default, and there's a class-action lawsuit over how.
Here are 5 moves to shut it off, the switch is hidden in two places:
@dbattistella I assumed this was already happening decades ago, and abandoned google at that point. I hear leaving google is somehow very, very, very difficult for some people (???) so they have to keep warning eachother about the latest, and the latest, and the latest.
Really, we should stop using lmao these technologies. Makes me giggle to say this, as Ive been saying it for like 20 years, BEFORE these companies revealed (to the public) they were fascist.
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@toxomat Not sure I understand what point you're trying to make.
@dbattistella @toxomat it's a lazy "only idiots use gmail" lukewarm take. just very wordy
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@Ayzacoder: Attention if you have a Gmail account:
Google's AI now scans your emails and attachments, bank statements, tax files, medical letters, all of it. It turned on by default, and there's a class-action lawsuit over how.
Here are 5 moves to shut it off, the switch is hidden in two places:
@dbattistella I got lucky
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@shwell1 @phaedral @dbattistella They're sprining up all over the place and I'm loving it.
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@shwell1 @dbattistella Brave is weird fashy adware and I can't use my bank's internet banking website cause it lacks features the app has and also they didn't actually give me the login details, went to ask for them, and then they didn't give me the instructions and I've been too busy to go again and embarrass myself in front of the employees by asking for them
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@shwell1 @dbattistella You need to erase Firefox from that list, and make sure you use the noai version of DDG. Brave is a good alternative to FF.
@MiaMarkTwo Brave, as a project, has it's own issues. Issues just as bad as AI.
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@shwell1 @dbattistella how old is this? Vimeo has been gobbled up by venture capitalists a long time ago and killed their community by trying to go commercial-only
