Passionate about capturing moments through photography and videography. Tech enthusiast and programmer on a mission to establish a media production company. Committed to exploring the intersection of technology and creativity. Keen on learning and promoting privacy in our digital age.

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Thanks for the heads up!


Nope. The only time I entered personal information (my full name) was when purchasing bitcoin. I made the purchase through Ramp- one of the brokers you can buy from


I’m in the EU. So far, it’s been really easy to follow everything. I made a €20 purchase (you get redirected to a third party, with two available to choose from) without any issues.


I just got access to Proton Wallet earlier today. Is there anything you’d like to know? **Q&A** * I’m on a family plan and have been a paying customer for about 2/3 years. * I haven’t bought any Bitcoin yet but will report back on that once I have.
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Just open this link. It will show you a bunch of details about your device/browser.

The other GitHub link will show you the source code, which you could review yourself or maybe help contribute to the project.


I’ve been using the official app without any issue for a while now. Wouldn’t that be easier? Or do you have a specific use case?


I’ve been using it since the beta and this is how it works.


I’ve personally never had this issue (I’ve been a paid user for the last 2 years). Like another commenter said, as annoying as it is, it’s not a super urgent bug. It doesn’t break anything or affect the functionality so it will take longer to get a fix.


I remember seeing something on Reddit a while back (well before the API fiasco) that this was a bug. Hopefully that is the case here as well.





Still interested to see how this pans out. Started using Standardnotes after the announcement


I’d love to have a “Shared” section where I can view files/folder that have been shared with me.


I think the “difficult” part for a lot of people has to do with the network effect. There is more friction to using Matrix over Discord because all of their friends use Discord (as an example). Of course, this wouldn’t apply to everything but it is definitely something that has an effect.


I’ve got a personal and business account with Revolut. You need to use Google Wallet or Apple Pay, you cannot tap to pay directly through the app.



I wish that was an option on iOS. It’s annoying having to keep the app open.


Unrelated to the content of post you linked.

Is there any way to link to a Lemmy comment/post that doesn’t redirect me to the web page of a different instance? Something like the way we can use !privacyguides@lemmy.one


I setup a new free account for my partner about a month and half (maybe 2) back and it wasn’t this aggressive.

Interesting to see this change in approach.

edit: just seen this is a cross post of the original


There was 3 or 4 different accounts. After the first round of emails the rest went straight to spam.

I’ll think of something that I can add to make it more unique like you mentioned. Thanks for the help!


I’ve added a screenshot with the aliases but I don’t think regex will help unless I setup a structure to follow.


Auto Create Alias Rules
I've been using a catch-all on all my custom domains for as long as I've had a custom domain and it's worked great. However, about 2 weeks back my business custom domain started creating loads of aliases that were used to send me spam (all related to finance/accounts, the message would say I owe a vendor money.) I disabled the catch-all so that they spam would stop, but I'd still like to use it if possible (via the auto create rules). Does anyone have a regex for Simplelogin that I can use to help combat this issue? Or is this there not much that I can do? *I can provide a list of the aliases that were created if it helps?*
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I’ve seen this a few times on Reddit and I’d love it myself as well. Unfortunately I don’t think it’s something we’d get anytime soon due to it being E2EE


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There’s been no announcement from them either so not sure why I got it already.


I’ll add some screenshots to the original post shortly.

As for how it’s going? It’s best summarised as “basic”.

  • It can either be turned on or off, there’s no option to filter for certain photos/videos to be uploaded or not.
  • You can’t see your photos within the “normal” file system where you’d normally go to upload a file. They are only visible in the “Photo” section.
  • When I enabled the feature it showed that I had “6800+ to backup”. The app has to be open to backup the photos, it’ll pause the upload as soon as you leave/minimise the app. It took about 13.5 hours for everything to get uploaded.

It works fine, it acts as a simple backup solution. I would like to see it developed a little more though. Having said that, I’m not sure if the Android app differs in any way.

EDIT: Just noticed that it seems to check through all of your photos again when trying to backup after the app has been closed. It doesn’t take very long but it’s still there.


Just opened Drive after upgrading to a family plan and saw that I got access to “Photo Backup”. I contacted support about the iOS beta when it was announced and was told that it’s not yet available for iOS. I am using the TestFlight version but not sure when this came through. **EDIT:** I added a link to a folder on Drive which contains some screenshots from the iOS app.
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I came across it a little while back (after watching a Linux Experiment video) but haven’t gotten into it yet.

The video (if anyone is curious): https://tilvids.com/w/5XTPqzq54ENNm7kELSaoTw


In my case, I’ve seen a lot of Discord groups linked with Matrix. As well as it being mentioned a whole bunch online


I’ve started using Matrix instead of Discord (not that I really ever used Discord).



It’s unfortunate but at least it’s moving.


I’ve seen people complain about companies like Meta and Google but then not make any effort to try and change…people can be weird sometimes.

I suppose there are a lot of factors at play, but still 🤷🏻‍♂️


Switching to more privacy friendly alternatives
How have others gotten friends/family to make the switch? I’ve been doing a cleanup of my digital life over the last year or so and am trying to move to using more privacy friendly alternatives where possible. **example:** I’d love to switch to Signal only but everyone I know only uses WhatsApp. I’ve mentioned switching to people in the past but it’s always the same response (I don’t have anything to hide)
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I’ve not used Tuta but currently use Proton. What do you prefer from Tuta over Proton? Genuinely curious.



It’s recommended to keep your Proton 2FA separate from Proton Pass. I think they wrote a blog post about it, I’ll link it here if I find it

Edit:

Please note that you should never use Proton Pass to secure your Proton Account using TOTP. Use a third-party authenticator app instead.

https://proton.me/support/pass-2fa


I’ll do that and update here


User Insights Program
I was accepted into the user insights program back in March of this year. I recall one “study” that they needed feedback on (end of march). After that I haven’t seen or heard anything, I’ve sent them an email but haven’t had a response. Is this still a thing?
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It’s not something I would use often (in my personal life) but the few times that it would have been nice, I’ve really missed it


Yeah, I’m referring to the second part of your message here. The only time I’m really needing to use SimpleLogin is to deactive aliases


I have it installed as a PWA and it works offline for me from what I can remember. Don’t quote me on that though, haven’t done any proper testing


It’ll be interesting for sure! Specifically the big tech companies (looking at you Meta, Google, Microsoft)



Web App or Email client with Proton Bridge?
[original Reddit post](https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtonMail/s/gBwuviXsiX) I’ve gotten so used to the web app that I don’t find I have the need for a separate email client. If Proton released the web app as a standalone email client that would be a different story
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Besides what has already mentioned, there also isn’t any way to activate/deactivate an alias via Proton Pass.




SimpleLogin Alias in Calendar Invites
Noticed today that when using my SimpleLogin alias for a calendar invite, I had the option to add it to my calendar! Previously I’d get the message saying that my email wasn’t in the participant list etc. It worked on Desktop but not on my iPhone.
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