I let go and switched to the private program/service.

Setup a Koel instance at a host of your choice. Upload your music to it and stream from that. See https://koel.dev/

Add some memory and hard drives and slap TrueNas or Unraid on it.

That bad?

Last time I used Windows on my own was back in the XP days. I saw some of the early Vista and it was even worse. I can’t imagine what the recent versions are like.

Wallabag might work.

Have you considered hosting your own instance instead? Seems like that would solve the issue.

You’re not alone, but even people who claim to want privacy are typically unwilling to stop using the very things that violate their privacy. I suspect that until that changes on a mass scale, the expectation that you should give up your data will remain.

Nope. It’s public. Assume everybody has a copy of everything sent over ActivityPub.

It’s a small step, but does not solve the issue of location being tracked to start with. A better law would be to ban the tracking of location without consent, along with banning requiring location tracking for services that don’t technically require it.

Nextcloud and Phonetrack maybe? https://github.com/julien-nc/phonetrack

It depends on what other data your ISP has vs what other data Google has. If Google knows more about you, like web history, then it can correlate the data to create a more complete profile. The reverse is also true. Pick your poison, there’s really no privacy either way.

I host my own. I’d say my contacts are split between XMPP and Matrix with many people having both. A lot of business use self hosted XMPP servers too. For example, Cisco communications solutions are based on XMPP.

The issue with free public servers is that you have no accountability. If they go away, or are left unmaintained, there’s nothing you can do about it.

My two cents, host at home, or at an infrastructure provider you pay for service.

There is no such thing as a private cellular device. It does not matter if it’s a smartphone, dumb phone, or simple internet access device.

Cellular devices are location tracked and their owners profiled. All devices have proprietary cellular modems that communicate over the network and have full access to your system. Nothing you do on device will stop that.

The only exception I’ve heard of is from Purism. The Librem 5 claims to separate the base system from the cellular modem, but that still won’t stop the location tracking.

Point blank, you can’t carry a connected cellular device, and have privacy. They are mutually exclusive goals.

Here’s an example of how to build it from scratch. https://lemmy.grouchysysadmin.com/comment/7413

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