#privacy

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Open letter to anyone with a protest or rights-based website:

PLEASE get rid of Facebook and Google SSO login options and analytic tracking codes from your sites.

You are literally handing over your user data to unscrupulous players that are in direct opposition to your cause. These sites can and do hand over user-specific data.

To everyone, stop using these options. Set a strong password. Use an alias email. Use a VPN.

Screenshot shows SSO options for the Indivisible website.
Screenshot of Democrats.org showing Google Tag.
Screenshot of Planned Parenthood website showing Google Tag Manager.

"...If the government or law enforcement starts treating all anti-Tesla actions as criminal, peaceful protesters could find themselves facing consequences meant for extremists...Per the Attorney General’s Guidelines, the FBI doesn’t require a factual basis for a suspicion of terrorism to begin conducting physical surveillance, which includes taking photos of people, cars, and license plates, deploying informants to infiltrate a group, accessing private databases, and more. ..."

“It’s also important to understand that law enforcement in the United States is primarily intended to protect the property of the wealthy,” German said.

“Corporations in the United States are politically powerful and have access to elected officials and top law enforcement officials. And when their interests are challenged, particularly by protest, they want to present that as a law enforcement issue, rather than as legitimate public concerns about their corporate activities.”

https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/28/tesla-takedown-protesters-are-planning-a-global-day-of-action-on-march-29-and-things-might-get-ugly/

Tip #680

Enable Proton VPN to protect your online privacy.

In Vivaldi, you can connect to Proton VPN without any extra hassle using your Vivaldi account, giving you a more private and secure browsing experience.

To get started:

  1. Click the ”VPN” button on the right side of the Address Bar.
  2. Log in to your Vivaldi account or to your Proton account.
  3. Click “Connect”.

https://vivaldi.com/blog/tips/tip-680/

Vivaldi browser window with Proton VPN's menu open showing an active VPN connection.

Today we are very proud to announce that the United Nations has switched from Google Forms to CryptPad Form for collecting endorsements on the UN Open Source Principles: https://unite.un.org/news/sixteen-organizations-endorse-un-open-source-principles

CryptPad Form is a full-fledged application allowing you to build privacy-preserving questionnaires for your respondents.

Try it for free, without even registering an account, on our CryptPad.fr flagship instance!

If you click on a link in a Bluesky post, it is now automatically redirected via the domain go.bsky.app before it actually goes to the link in the post. There is no way to stop this or know that it is happening as the redirect only flickers on the screen for a fraction of a second.

Presumably this means Bluesky can now track all link clicking on their platform, including IP addresses, destinations etc?

Or have I misunderstood?

Bluesky is spinning it as a tool for publishers to track referrals, but going beyond the spin it seems to be giving Bluesky access to people's online activity?