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Your digital life is being decided for you. Techlore helps you take it back—privacy, security, and digital rights, made simple by Henry Fisher.
The SPA Tools, simple recommendations for privacy & security services also got a brand new cellular category 📱 A warm welcome to these service for the work they're doing!
Ask "which VPN should I use?" in search and you'll probably get whoever paid the most. The VPN Finder flips this on its head. It's just filterable, comparable data so you decide what's best for you. And a BIG update just dropped 🧵
After a rigorous vetting process, we've brought on a new chief video officer. Qualifications: top-tier nap skills and unmatched ability to block the mouse & keyboard. We're in good paws 🐾
Big headline, luckily not as scary as it looks, but an important lesson... The FBI extracted Signal messages from a defendant's iPhone even after the app was deleted. Here's what actually happened and what to do 🧵
One more reason to get away from Windows. VeraCrypt is excellent software!! Source: https://www.404media.co/microsoft-abruptly-terminates-veracrypt-account-halting-windows-updates/ We've shown how to use it in the past if you want to see how it works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C25VWAGl7Tw
📢 Surveillance Report & Techlore Talks have moved to a new pod host! If you follow us on Apple, Spotify, or any podcast app, everything should carry over automatically. If you only watch on You/PeerTube, did you know they're available as podcasts? Follow them now: https://techlore.tech/podcasts
This is still the Metaverse website, even after announcing Horizon Worlds will be shutting down soon. Meta didn't need the metaverse to succeed, they needed it to exist long enough to collect your data and keep investors distracted.
The playbook's the same: Industry harms people → regulators don't touch industry → individuals get surveilled instead Kids exposed to addictive products? Scan everyone's face. Kids on social media? Scan everyone's face. Zero accountability for companies. Maximum surveillance for everyone else.
Meta has deleted a photographer's entire portfolio overnight. Falsely accused, no appeal, years of work gone. Your data isn't yours if it's on their servers. Start with backups YOU own, then go further with open source services that empower you: privacytools.techlore.tech
🚨 UK: The govt wants to ban VPNs, social media & AI chatbots for under-21s. Your silence is a yes. Make your voice heard before May 26. Fill out the survey and let them know your views: www.gov.uk/government/c...
300,000 of you are fighting the good fight 🔥 We couldn't be here without you, thank you! The best part is we were actually together in person when it happened, on a work retreat for a project a lot of you have been waiting on...coming soon 👀
Glad our video from 2022 can be of assistance as people hunt for Discord alts! It's a bit outdated, but the fundamentals are still there: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Qgy...
Microsoft's had an eventful month. Somehow still hit 1 billion Windows 11 users 🤯
Thank you all for sharing our newest video covering WhatsApp’s problems on the platform that needs to hear it most! (And I guess the Signal users still thought it was fun to share too :P)
Tor Browser 15.0.2 has been released. Keep it updated for the latest improvements ✅
🍪 Europe's cookie nightmare is ending! The EU proposed letting you set cookie preferences once at the browser level instead of clicking those annoying pop-ups on every single website. Seems like a solid improvement!
🚨 MASSIVE: Researchers scraped 3.5 BILLION WhatsApp phone numbers using the app's contact discovery feature, along with profile photos and bios for millions of people. This would be "the largest data leak in history" if it hadn't been done by researchers 🧵
🚨 DoorDash just confirmed a data breach affecting customers, delivery workers, and merchants. Names, emails, phone numbers, and physical addresses were exposed. But here's where it gets wild...
Big news for messaging: WhatsApp is rolling out support for interoperability, enabling third-party chats across Europe. BirdyChat and Haiket are already supported with WhatsApp. Here's why it matters 🔐
For anyone who missed it: After 6 years, Google's "Privacy Sandbox" is officially done. So after all of that...Chrome remains the ONLY major browser still clinging to third-party cookies.
It's time we fight to keep Android open. Join the fight: keepandroidopen.org
During the AWS outage, Eight Sleep mattresses went rogue 🛌 They woke people up with flashing lights, cranked heat to high levels, and locked into upright positions. Welcome to 2025, where your subscription mattress freaks out because servers went down.
Excited to be attending & speaking (about ad-blocking in the creator economy!) at the Ad-Filtering Dev Summit in Cyprus hosted by AdGuard, Ghostery, and eyeo. Say hi if you're around!
And just like that, Apple & Google are suing Texas for their 'censorship regime' and ' oppressive laws' for KYCing app stores 🧑⚖️ It's not common to agree with them, but this is nice to see! Would you want to see coverage of this in a video update? Source: arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...