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MembersStop Renting Access to Your Own Movie Collection
Running it yourself means a price you set, a door only you hold the key to, and infrastructure that answers to no one but you.
Google Broke reCAPTCHA for De-Googled Android Users
The company that decides whether you’re a bot now also requires you run its software to prove otherwise.
MembersBrave Now Has a Stripped Down Option — Here’s Who Should Care
It’s a surprisingly coherent product, but whether you actually need it depends entirely on which kind of privacy user you are.
MembersThe Opt-Out Button Is Decorative: A Guide to Hardening Your Browser
The opt-out button you’ve been clicking is decorative, so here is the browser build that stops asking nicely.
Tuta Announces Quantum-Resistant Encrypted Cloud Storage, Tuta Drive
Ten million users already trust Tuta with their email, and now the same quantum-resistant math covers everything they store.
MembersYou Don’t Own Your Kindle Books. Here’s What You Can Do About It.
The open source ebook ecosystem now has a genuine answer for every piece of Amazon’s walled garden, if you care enough to look into it.
MembersHow Your Weather App Became a Surveillance Machine — And How to Escape It
The forecast is free, but you’ve been paying for it with every place you’ve ever visited.
Apple Removes Bitchat From China App Store at Cyberspace Administration Order
The app that needs no internet, no servers, and no user accounts turned out to be exactly the kind of thing Beijing can’t let exist.
GrapheneOS Defies Age Verification Surveillance Pressure
GrapheneOS is doing what Apple and Google won’t: treating market access as a worthwhile price for not building a government ID layer into your phone.
MembersHackers Are Compromising Signal Accounts. Don’t Be Next.
Attacks are usually from human error, not technology, which is why a five-minute audit is the most important thing you should be doing.
MembersHow to Actually Disappear on Proton Mail
Proton Mail’s encryption held perfectly in a recent case. Here’s everything else that didn’t, and how to fix it.
MembersThe Privacy Phone Is Going Mainstream: The Deal That Could Change De-Googled Phones Forever
For the first time, the most hardened mobile OS in existence has a manufacturer behind it with genuine reach in all major markets.