Notices by Oriol Demaria (oriol@bigbox.red), page 4

Put now the imperial march from Star Wars while you read... is not April's fools yet!

Facebook wants to merge Messenger with WhatsApp and Instagram - https://www.thejournal.ie/facebook-whatsapp-instagram-4460692-Jan2019/

@merce me recuerda a lo firefox que te espiaba con la telemetría. En fin, mucho ojo con los desconocidos que han descubierto "la última traición de las empresas que protegen tu privacidad". Desde que no tienen ni idea, hasta que puede tener un trastorno de paranoia o intenciones oscuras. El fingerprinting por la resolución del navegador es un caso muy límite.

Sigue diciendo en el post que también le espiaban en el foro de whonix. En fin...

@merce la verdad y siendo usuario de searx. El post destila paranoia. Y un empleado de duckduckgo lo desmiente. Algunos en el mundo de la privacidad entran en esta fase. Creo que ejem... es peor para tu privacidad comprar online, usar un smartphone o tener alguna red social privativa que el hecho de usar un buscador que basa su negocio en la privacidad.

@JuanBellas sobretodo por que la app de Facebook vincula también las direcciones MAC a tu perfil (al menos este parece ser el caso en USA) para hacerte más seguimiento. Es de las apps más hostiles hacia la privacidad. La gente que siga queriendo usar Facebook sin tanta invasión debería usar estas que son wrappers al API que tienes en F-droid.

Pero todavía mejor no tener facebook.

@JuanBellas bueno, esos firmwares del los fabricantes son crapware. Android cada vez peor.

#LineageOS is an alternative form of the Android operating system, which works like a normal Android but has the Google-based apps removed.

It can be installed on Android smartphones to replace the Google version of Android.

It's *very* complicated to install, but if you're a tech expert, or you know an expert who can help you, you can download it from the official website:

https://www.lineageos.org

The download links include installation instructions.

#AlternativesAtoZ #Android #DeleteGoogle

A raíz de un mensaje de Spanish revolution se trata hoy el tema de como tratar con los "triggerers" de derecha y más allá. Esta nueva estrategia de polemizar y trolear al personal. No piquéis.

https://www.spreaker.com/user/radiocable/lacafeteraultrabots-como-se-alimentan-lo

Great podcast today from Mozilla, TL;DR about how hard is this days with so much noise specially in our phones, but in the internet in general to read a book.

Attention deficit is now a global disease.

https://irlpodcast.org/season4/episode3/

German Green party leader quits Facebook and Twitter, after doxxing and hate.

Interesting, will he consider the fediverse? In any case, I think is something different and possitive.

https://www.npr.org/2019/01/08/683037354/bye-bye-twitter-und-facebook-german-green-party-chief-quits-social-media

Very interesting,

How To Blow Your Online Cover With URL Previews
https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/how-tos/2019/01/04/how-to-blow-your-online-cover-with-url-previews/

#privacy

As the Android operating systems gets more and more propietary and spies more and more, it's time to start playing around with opensource alternatives. It'll take time or maybe won't be possible, and thus I'll have to continue with Android +noGapps +DNShacks (to avoid tracking).

https://www.postmarketos.org
https://ubports.com
https://www.plasma-mobile.org

And some others...

So months ago I deleted my WhatsApp account. Today I saw with my own eyes that if you chatted with me in the past you can still send me messages, of course they will never double tick.

This is blackmail and pure evil. Never again nothing from the Facebook group. So non tech savvy people how are they supposed to know?

#privacy #whatsapp

Here is the study, and yes, data is even shared if you don't have a facebook profile. Will have to add to adaway list.

https://privacyinternational.org/report/2647/how-apps-android-share-data-facebook-report

Android apps sending information without your knowledge to facebook, even I understand if you don't have a profile.

https://www.irishtimes.com/business/media-and-marketing/apps-sending-users-data-to-facebook-without-their-consent-1.3744617

This new year you may consider escaping the Facebook conglomerate which includes Instagram and WhatsApp.

And if you manage without WhatsApp you can be a proper civilization outcast. 😂

Come on and join! 😋

So this new year you might want to escape the Facebook conglomerate, which includes Instagram and WhatsApp.

If you manage to delete your WhatsApp you can get the Unabomber badge... 😂

[Understand the irony, I don't endorse terrorism]

EFF about the Facebook documents leaked...
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/12/new-documents-show-facebook

BBC Documentaries podcast this one about India and porn. The part of rape videos spreading and WhatsApp, heartbreaking.

Beyond the tech, the encryption, the source code, how do we deal with the shitposting or the blatant lies on memes? Crap is often found on groups on some networks. What to do?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06tzcpq

I think that we can say that WhatsApp groups are a magnet for shitposting. We can categorize those memes as that.

So far happy without WhatsApp, but you'll still need a plan B just in case, as it is ubiquitous.

Even that of course people need cars, within big cities more and more they have an antisocial effect. I wish there would be some kind congestion charge in Dublin.