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i'm a us citizen, currently living in the usa. i'd like to send money internationally via paypal, without disclosing my real name to the recipient (as a rule, i use a pseudonym for as much as possible when i'm travelling outside the usa and western europe)

i'm not trying to conceal this gift or my identity from the us govt or bypass the KYC rules. and if there's a court case, i'm ok with my identity being revealed to the recipient - i just don't want it revealed automatically. ideally, paypal would support this use-case, but they don't seem to have provisions for it. i've tried creating a paypal with a pseudonym, but haven't been able to send money funded via a prepaid card (which makes sense, because of KYC)

is this doable ? maybe using a virtual card to fund a paypal, eg privacy-dot-com or ironvest ? any other ideas ?

anything that allowed me to send $100 would be useful, and being able to do it a few times would be a bonus (but lifetime, i'm not expecting to send more than $1000). my friend group seems to be tied to paypal, so unfortunately, i'm not interested in non-paypal solutions, at least for the moment

I main Firefox but, want a Chromium browser for Android/Windows that I can use occasionally.

What are your preferred choices?

Edit: okay I tested out a lot of your suggestions and found Vivaldi to by my favourite so far :) thanks y'all

A genuine discussion about the best FLOSS decentralized system to share poop emojis and videocall your dog.

Hi, there's this situation i currently have with discord support, that they refuse to delete my phone number from my account. Basically every time i try to manually remove it, my account gets locked up until i add another phone number in order to continue accessing the service, "for security reasons" with no option for email verification (of course).

I contacted the support team asking for clarifications and if they could remove the phone number and, in short, they said that they couldn't do that since my account was flagged somehow, and that they won't remove the phone verification...

Now, what are your opinions about this? Should i use a free voip number site in order to replace my real phone number with the fake one? My concern is that i don't know who could own that number so i don't know if it's safe to trust it, and i'm not willing to spend any money for this

Been using SearXNG for about a year now, and I just can't deal with instances constantly getting blocked by search engines anymore. So I'd like to find something a bit more reliable. I've read that DuckDuckGo has had some controversies in the past, and I wouldn't touch Brave with a 39 and a half foot pole.

So today I found this actually amazing Telekom Campaign about the consequences of sharing stuff about your kids. Every parent should watch this it needs to go viral since it's an extremly important topic in todays age.

Please watch following video (Highly reccomend it): https://youtu.be/F4WZ_k0vUDM

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Does user privacy when using WhatsApp Web (https://web.whatsapp.com) differ substantially from using WhatsApp on Android? WhatsApp on Android has end-to-end encryption and (optional) encrypted backups. If I use WhatsApp Web, will Meta be able to see the contents of my WhatsApp messages?

What harm does public data have to you? Couldn't one just ignore the ads? You can't see anyone watching you, is public data good for public records? (I'm just curious). I know this sounds weird but is public data good for historical preservation and knowledge increasing the importance of the individual? And does public data lead to better products?

Commodification of everything you think off Past/Present/Future.

https://fosstodon.org/@jimsalter/110441094176772187

转发自: https://lemmy.world/post/2507246

Data leaks everywhere...

'X is a free public service funded largely by advertisers.'

'the CCDH gained access to X’s data without Brandwatch’s authorization'

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https://geti2p.net/en/

This is, of course, assuming that the instance is not hosted on the same network that the device your account is using is accessing it from.

Currently looking at:

• jmp.chat with the Cheogram app - at $3 a month for each number, it's a little pricey.
• VoIP.ms with either the linphone app or one of the other FOSS apps in their softphones list - $0.85 a month but calls and messages are a la carte, which is not my favorite but it's less expensive.

I know a lot of people like using MySudo or Grandstream, but I'd like to keep it FOSS and not reliant on google play services if possible. Battery considerations are also a plus.

So what are you using and would you recommend it?

Molly advertises itself as a "hardened version of Signal," & its FOSS variant is the same without proprietary dependencies. TwinHelix's FOSS Signal fork goes further, adding OSM support instead of GMaps. Are these forks trustworthy, & are they worth using for added security compared to mainline?

I am currently looking for a multiroom speaker system which does not force me to place wiretap into my home. Also it should be able to simultaneously play the same song on multiple speakers. Which device can you recommend me? Best would be if no additional internet connection is necessary.