Your reminder to remove the microphone from your TV remote today
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- on Ursula Leyen - State of the European Union speech - EU Kids Act in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 16 Sep 2026
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on The quickest nope of a cookies popup I've ever seen in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 16 Sep 2026
“We value your privacy” above 1032 partners and no disagree button is unhinged
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on Stop the tracking circus. Kill the cookie banner! in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 11 Sep 2026
First image: why is she typing on the edges of the keyboard, why is the keyboard just one rectangle, why is the trackpad split in two
Second image: the server is the most unsymmetrical thing I have ever seen and her hands don’t make sense
Third image: the guy is just holding the sign with his wrist, not with his hand and the sign itself is so straight it looks photoshopped in. Well or just placed in by an AI. Also, the backglow of the sign appears behind the people, not behind the sign
Fourth image: the guy had five fingers on the megaphone, the woman only has four. The woman has five fingers on the paper, the guy has a crab hand
This is some mayor fucking AI slop.
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on Stop the tracking circus. Kill the cookie banner! in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 10 Sep 2026
Well I mean I support the message, but please pay an artist instead of using these ugly AI generated images.
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on Stop the tracking circus. Kill the cookie banner! in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 10 Sep 2026
Who the fuck defines “legitimate” interest anyway, they can go fuck themselves with their “legitimate”, I hate it so much
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on Your reminder to remove the microphone from your TV remote today in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 10 Sep 2026
The Pixel 9a is getting cheap and looking for them on the used market is even better, do yourself the favor and get one!
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on Your reminder to remove the microphone from your TV remote today in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 10 Sep 2026
No it didn’t come across that way, even after re-reading it, it sounds serious.
Also yeah, it wasn’t trying to hide the fact, it’s advertised to have voice control and has a button for it. For some reason it says “you have to be connected to the internet to use voice control” if I try to test it which makes no fucking sense tho lmao.
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on Your reminder to remove the microphone from your TV remote today in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 10 Sep 2026
Step by step. Maybe true privacy is a myth, but every step closer is a win so take them.
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on Your reminder to remove the microphone from your TV remote today in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 10 Sep 2026
While it’s not always the case, try to look for a 2x4 silver rectangle with a hole in it like the one on my finger. The casing is to isolate it from the nearby radio waves and the hole to let sound through.
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on Your reminder to remove the microphone from your TV remote today in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 10 Sep 2026
HELLOOO???
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on Your reminder to remove the microphone from your TV remote today in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 9 Sep 2026
While it’s not always the case, try to look for a 2x4 silver rectangle with a hole in it like the one on my finger. The casing is to isolate it from the nearby radio waves and the hole to let sound through.
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on Your reminder to remove the microphone from your TV remote today in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 9 Sep 2026
It’s sad isn’t it?
The walls are listening
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on Your reminder to remove the microphone from your TV remote today in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 9 Sep 2026
GrapheneOS my brother
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on Your reminder to remove the microphone from your TV remote today in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 9 Sep 2026
I’ll go down swinging with my hoarded DDR3 sticks
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on Your reminder to remove the microphone from your TV remote today in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 9 Sep 2026
I removed N2! N1 was the chip for the mic or something.
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on Your reminder to remove the microphone from your TV remote today in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 9 Sep 2026
Dude of course it’s not constantly recording, but the fact that it can record on two AAA batteries even every now and then for over a year is ridiculous
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on Your reminder to remove the microphone from your TV remote today in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 9 Sep 2026
That’s the thing, the average person’s value is waaay more than the discount you are getting. Imagine the screens without any smart bs built into them as being the real cost. Now you ADD the hardware and suddenly they cost 25-50%? If it wasn’t worth at least that (your data is worth more), the companies wouldn’t subsidize that much.
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on Your reminder to remove the microphone from your TV remote today in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 9 Sep 2026
Two AAA batteries and they weren’t changed in a year so yeah, ouch.
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on Your reminder to remove the microphone from your TV remote today in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 9 Sep 2026
This remote didn’t even have an opening so I can only imagine how little covering it with a tape would do. I mean tape your phone’s mic and you will sound like shit, but you can still be understood. So yeah, never connect it in the first place but I chose to nuke the mics out of spite.
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on Your reminder to remove the microphone from your TV remote today in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 9 Sep 2026
Nice one lmao
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on Your reminder to remove the microphone from your TV remote today in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 9 Sep 2026
Well this remote is connected to the TV via Bluetooth and the mic is super energy efficient so yeah, to hell with it
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on Your reminder to remove the microphone from your TV remote today in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 9 Sep 2026
oh no
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on Your reminder to remove the microphone from your TV remote today in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 9 Sep 2026
Yeah, that’s probably the smart move
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on 3D printer files for giving a Flock camera a *lot* of sun protection in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 9 Sep 2026
I mean it is pretty dumb in that regard, but we should apprechiate the effort as it’s pretty damn funny
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on Your reminder to remove the microphone from your TV remote today in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 9 Sep 2026
Looking up which part to nuke took an hour, but anything to calm down my paranoid ass haha
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on Your reminder to remove the microphone from your TV remote today in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 9 Sep 2026
Sure thing, please look up what a 50 inch 4K dumb screen costs and report back to me.
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on Your reminder to remove the microphone from your TV remote today in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 9 Sep 2026
It works! I was fully prepared for it to not work and explain to my wife why we need to order a new one, but no issue at all lmao
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on Your reminder to remove the microphone from your TV remote today in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 9 Sep 2026
Out of fucking principle, yes it’s not connected, but I won’t tolerate a mic in my remote. Besides, you have heard of them being able to use your neighbour’s unsafe WIFI if you have to act so smart, right?
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on Your reminder to remove the microphone from your TV remote today in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 9 Sep 2026
The TV advetises voice recognition in both the TV itself and the remote.
If you look at it, it’s likely going to be a 2x4mm silver rectangle with a small hole in it. Not always, but they mostly look like that.
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on Your reminder to remove the microphone from your TV remote today in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 9 Sep 2026
Why not both?
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on what to do with your phone on nternational travel? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 4 Sep 2026
Trust me, I would LOVE to insult my way through these assholes, but man, you need to realize noone wants every airport visit to include multiple hours wasted in interrogation. Your comment is absolutely useless.
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on what to do with your phone on nternational travel? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 4 Sep 2026
Jup, it’s so sad that it’s happening and most people either don’t even realize it or are too brainwashed to care. In Germany the police is advised to, if they should have your unlocked phone, set up a Whatsapp-Web instance by quickly scanning the QR-code on your phone to monitor you since they can simply intercept the verification PIN SMS. At least on Signal you can set up a PIN to enter whenever you add a new device.
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on what to do with your phone on nternational travel? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 4 Sep 2026
Cloud-backup your phone, factory reset it, set it up again with a phone number, a different messenger app to the one you currently use and download your idk, 20 most recent pictures to your galery and set one as your background.
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You will still be able to make phone calls if needed
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You will still be able to send messages on for example Telegram even tho you usually use Signal
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The phone will not look like a burner as it has some personal content on it
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The phone will look personalized and thus less suspicous together with point 3
Edit: You don’t even have to actually set them up or even open them at all, but maybe even download a shopping list, a notes app, two games, all in all it should take like 10 minutes to make your phone look less suspicous as opposed to the other advice to just factory reset it.
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on How do you balance privacy and sanity? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 28 Aug 2026
Honestly, I just did everything one after the other so it’s less of a hurdle and you can dedicate yourselg to figuring out and learning about that one particular step, both from a technical and social way. I didn’t even make a list or whatever, if I then feelt comfortable, I automatically went looking for the next big decision as if it was some kind of obsession (it was).
First I literally just switched browsers to Firefox forks with uBlock and got a VPN on my phone or PC. Got used to using them which was fast, also no social issues whatsoever obviously.
Then I started to get rid of most subscribtion services like actually downloading the four albums I hear instead of paying for Spotify and reduced what I post and deleted most of what I had posted on social media. This one was also easy, not much to it.
I switched to Windows 11 Enterprise IoT LTSC, still Windows but feels more like a Linux distro. I still needed it for university with online exams and stuff, but definitely better than other alternatives. Honestly, this step was too little, I already wanted Linux, I just couldn’t lmao. Dual boot was out of the question, I can’t do two things at once, just a me thing I guess.
When I couldn’t be as private on my PC as I wanted to, I just sold my iPhone and got a Pixel with GrapheneOS on it. That was a learning curve but I basically dedicated two entire days on it and set everything up exactly like I wanted and got everything working exactly like it should.
Now we get to the first actual socially hard step the only thing I didn’t install on the Pixel was IG. From a privacy stand point I WANTED to get rid of it waaay sooner, but I was addicted, like actually not figuretively. I made a few attempts to keep it but use it less in the past to no success. I purposely didn’t install the app since this was a new phone and clean start anyway and forced myself to only use it in the browser which were extra steps to make it less of an automated habit thing and obviously a shitty experience in itself. After a week I noticed I wasn’t actually looking forward to using it anymore, made a close friends story with an explanation and a phone number and nuked my account. That step did go smoothly and the people that mattered started writing me more on Whatsapp. I mean better than IG, but still a thorn in my eye. I would have loved nuking that one too, but in Germany this is basically the only way to communicate. Will come back to that later, dw.
With the last online exam from the uni passed, I ditched Windows for Linux the same day. Fucking finally, I was looking forward to this one. I did have a few years of experience running Linux on stuff like modified 4.1/5.1 Mac Pros, but never actually as a daily-driver so not much getting used to, I felt relieved lmao.
A few months went by and I was itching for the next thing. I always wanted to nuke Whatsapp but again, in Germany that’s next to impossible. I did however get my wife to use Signal semi-reluctantly after she complained that I sometimes don’t see her Whatsapp messages on my Pixel. After another month I decided fuck it, wrote a wall of text like this one and not angrily or condecendingly but neutrally and carefully explained the risks of this app and big tech/government surveilance and that I will be deleting Whatsapp tomorrow. Socially that step was the hardest by far. Got some shit for it but ultimately if using this spyware is more important to you than contact with me then go fuck yourself.
So yeah again, I didn’t even mean for this to run like a list, but I seemingly made the unconcious decision to takle it one problem at a time, get used to it and only then move to the next step. It’s easy to get overwhelmed, so just view it as a process.
In the end I’m super fucking happy I did it. My head is much much much clearer and productivity through the roof. I opened a small business on the side at the start of the year and this week I began working on a Linux distro. I reverse-engineered the way SteamOS makes Arch semi-reliable and improved on that, combined with the optimized kernels and for your CPU-arcitecture compiled packages. Unthinkable if you only scroll on IG on your iPhone and then work on your Windows 11 PC.
Edit: I know there are a lot of typos and weird sentence structures, I wrote this a few minutes after waking up, bear with me lmao.
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on Just be honest in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 24 Aug 2026
Yeah I’m gonna use that from now on, that’s hilarious.
Oh boy. I’m not going to verify my age fucking ever, no matter the compromises. Fuck them.