Very_Bad_Janet

Did your coworker know what you were talking about? Also, please explain how AirVPN with DNS blocking works.

I’m subscribed to bother Lemmy communities and kbin magazines of the same name. I’m in kbin.social so I can’t tell you the exact magazine name - I search for the subject, say tech, and then subscribe to all of the groups.

I got 100% in Vivaldi on mobile by going into the settings and selecting “Block trackers and ads” and then selecting every single one of their ad blocking sources (the list was from all different countries). That got me 100% with no addtional add ons.

But it would get publicity, further open up a conversation about privacy, and change (some) users’ minds.

Does Locus allow you to track someone in real time? I couldn’t tell from the screenshots.

But what would you suggest for Android phones? We need tracking for our kids’ commutes.

I told a friend who works in tech that we use Life360 and he blanched. He began to persuade me it would not be a good thing to use. Thanks to a post here I now turned on location tracking in Google Maps in our phones. I’ve been hearing that we should try to limit our use of Google but in this instance is it better than Life360? Are there any other alternatives for Android?

Ohhh, I did not know that was a thing! I will look into that.

So if I’m to understand the article, this will allow Android device users to find their devices as well as AirTags? It read as if this will be just for Google and Apple branded devices. Would this be for all Android devices, e.g., Samsung? (Forgive me if all these answers seem obvious, I am not very techy.)

Speaking of privacy and tracking, would anyone know of a location app that can be trusted not to sell the tracking data? My family uses Life360 so that we can track our children’s locations as they commute to and from school.or.run around the neighborhood, that sort.of thing. We have Android phones. I’m under the impression that if we all had iPhones we could track them using Apple apps,.which would not do anything funky with the data. This is something I wasn’t too worried about until reading more about privacy, but I still need to know where my kids are.

Thanks for the explanation. That makes sense. I’ve been less aware of that and on recently, after having the phone for a while, have I been deleting many of the pre-installed apps.

Can you explain what you mean by bloat with the s7? I have that and like my phone, just wondering why others don’t.

Can you explain what you mean by bloatware? Do you mean all the apps the phones come installed with, or do you mean something else? Would it be simple to uninstall what you don’t want? Curious bc I have a Samsung phone.

Thanks for the Overdrive link.

Does Overdrive work on a Kindle? (I use it on my phone.)

I like Brave on my Android phone, too. I use the browser and its search engine (which is OK, DDG and Bing gets me better / different results).

So, how do you download and use PDFs from Anna’s Archive or a similar site? Do you download it to a computer that you just use for downloads, then scan the file using Virus Total, then read only on that computer? (I usually read on my phone using Overdrive, just trying to figure out the safest way as a newbie).

https://kbin.social/u/@Isotretinoin@lemmy.ml that was so kind to inquire. No, I haven’t done it yet. I’m gathering info for when I bite the bullet and buy a laptop specifically for sailing the high seas. Right now I’m just streaming from YT with an ad blocker. I’ll save your reply for the future in case I need to reach out for help. TY!

Thank you

So, to use this, I download F-droid to my Android device and then download Vimusic?