Yes, I “like” the surprises scanning a unknown QR code. I hate this crap, same as this short URLs, it’s not different from clicking on shady ad banners. A trustworth website don’t need this shit, hiding its domain.

https://www.expandurl.net/

The QR code point to https://recaptcha.net/qr/mMs9S9g8

I use InVizible Pro

FairPhone, the farest away from Google or US Tech (EU, NL), sustainable and modular, e/OS (EU, FR)

What the website see is the current IP of the used ISP server in this moment. In the last check it was Madrid, several hundreds km from my real home. The public IP isn’t the same as my user IP, which only know my ISP and I (and the police by the ISP, if exist a court order). The public IP don’t show your real location, the website only can use your GPS data if you have it activated or if it appears in your account data (Google, Google Maps).

The public IP is irrelevant, only shows the IP of the server used by your ISP, which can be at the other side of the country. It can maybe identify the ISP, but not the user, less if a dynamic changing IP is used. The public IP is always leaked if you don’t use a VPN or the TOR network.

Only 50% correct in my case (similar to Browserleaks), correct the OS, Screenresolution, Country but wrong site, wrong even the ISP

Relative irrelevant in a tool for downloading a browser.

Worse for an western gamer that big western companies logs their data, than that China do it, in China nobody gives a fuck of personal data from western users. Different for Chinese gamers.

Yes, sadly, there are alternatives for Linux, like EasyEffects, but not so complete.

You find life cams over the whole world, independent of dozends of dedicated life cam pages, even in YouTube, means that you maybe appears in YouTube without knowing it. Independent of cams used by police, smart glasses, shops, banks, etc.

earthcam.com/network/

https://www.skylinewebcams.com/en/webcam.html

https://worldcams.tv/list/

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=live+cams

etc.

If the company or school isn’t more privacy-conscious, it’s their problem, not the employee’s or student’s. Naturally if they don’t use these devices for private matters. You can only warn of these problems and how to alleviate or solve them, if they do not pay attention, you only have to shrug your shoulders.

Exodus is mandatory on Android or alternatively also the similar PrivacyScanner

Agree,also Fairphone is a very good solution. Maps have a lot of alternatve solutions, more now as Google discontinued it’s Streetview feature, the only thing not present in other maps. Most other Google services have also pretty good alternatives, also linkeable Android Smartwatches have it (e/OS is normally good compatible with Android aps, exept maybe limited with Google ones, due to the lack of corresponding APIs)

https://alternativeto.net/software/google-maps/?license=opensource&p=2&platform=android

Also a off-grid communication platform in areas without existing or reliable communications infrastructure.

Yes, depending the case there are several alternatives, eg.Yggdrasil or OSHI Mesh. 40 years ago there was the Finger Protocol which still is implemented by default and works in Windows, Mac and most distros

https://github.com/yjeanrenaud/yj_nearbyglasses

Adding that the Apollo 11 soft isn’t much more complex as the one of an current pocket calculator, I doubt that it can even run DOOM. NASA anyway has a huge OpenSource catalogue, all their soft used is OpenSource, despite some with restricted licenses only for official uses. Same for other Space agencies, eg. from the ESA. Good sources for astronomic fans.

90%bof the current web is controlled directly or indirectly by Google, M$, FB, Amazon, even OpenSource. It’s a shopping mall with surveillance by gov agents and AIs in every corner, not so far from Minority Report, not a model for the future if you want some integrity and sovereignty. It’s currently almost irrelevant if you use a VPN, TOR or whatever. they identify you in seconds if they want, more if you are browsing with mobile, knowing in every moment exactly where you are, well by GPS or triangulation.

The open web is more and more an data market of big corps, I see the future more in a decentralized web, I2P or similar.