u/Fox3High369

>Signal only allows linked devices through a QR code. However, it's still possible to scan a QR code sent by an attacker without them having physical access to your device.

>The document states that the German customs agency has been testing messenger surveillance since the end of 2023, and it has led to success in criminal investigations. They're light on details as to exactly what strategies German customs officials use, but there are plenty of ways to maliciously link a device to an account.

>This type of surveillance became an official, permanent strategy available to all agents since August 2025.

>The messengers affected include WhatsApp, Telegram, Threema, and Signal.

3Euros is a very good price for the most basic paid tuta. But I think a lot of people use email very little and if there was a cheaper one that could convince more people to join. 2 even 1 Euro per month plan.

I am tired of google and microsoft scanning our emails but I barely use email but even paying 36E a year is a bit steep for something that I use it very few times a week and the free version doesn't have enough features like being able to create extra email addresses.

I don't know if it's steam or windows the one sharing the info to google about what games I am currently playing. But I noticed that when I start playing some games I get videos about these games on youtube.

It's not random like just by chance by it happens timely. Like I play X game on steam and hours later I get a video on youtube about that same X game.

Either steam or windows are sharing data about what we play to google. Because the recommendations appear so right on time when I play some games that I can't think it's random.

This should be illegal letting microsoft or steam share that data with google or any other company.

Right now I am banned from degoogle for posting this. I posted it in degoogle and browsers subs and in both comments were locked.

My question is why would anyone get banned and comments locked as if they didn't want anyone to share any additional information for just posting an information that even if it's not 100% correct maybe helpful to even clarify whether Brave is actually uploading telemetry to their servers?.

Here what I posted

It is happening on desktop and android.

If you go to brave settings. Privacy and security - Data collection. You'll see you have a few options that can be disabled.

But I noticed that there is other telemetry being sent out to brave servers and I think studies are being conducted to different users.

If you type brave://version you'll see what studies are enabled in your browser. Telemetry is being sent out even if you disable the data collection in the settings. In my computer I saw a 1 minute long connection to variations.brave.com which is telemetry.

If you have an app to see network activity you'll see brave connects to variations.brave.com that is where your data is being uploaded.

These are the ones I had enabled in my browser and I just noticed a few days ago despite I disabled all data collection in the brave settings.

AIChatCodeExecutionTool:Enabled
AdblockOnlyModeStudy:Enabled
BTMGoogleAuthWorkaround:Enabled
BraveAdblockDATCacheStudy:Enabled
BraveAdsNewTabPageAdsStudy:Enabled
BraveAdsObliviousHttpStudy:Enabled
BraveCopyCleanLinkFromJsStudy:Enabled
BraveFeedUpdateStudy:Enabled
BraveNTPBrandedWallpaperStudy:Enabled
BraveScreenFingerprintingBlockerStudy:Enabled
BraveWalletPolkadotStudy:Enabled
EmailAliasesStudy_Release:Enabled
InProcessBraveAdsServiceStudy:Enabled
UserActivityStudy:Triggers
WhatsNewStudy:Enabled

It is happening on desktop and android.

If you go to brave settings. Privacy and security - Data collection. You'll see you have a few options that can be disabled.

But I noticed that there is other telemetry being sent out to brave servers and I think studies are being conducted to different users.

If you type brave://version you'll see what studies are enabled in your browser. Telemetry is being sent out even if you disable the data collection in the settings. In my computer I saw a 1 minute long connection to variations.brave.com which is telemetry.

If you have an app to see network activity you'll see brave connects to variations.brave.com that is where your data is being uploaded.

These are the ones I had enabled in my browser and I just noticed a few days ago despite I disabled all data collection in the brave settings.

AIChatCodeExecutionTool:Enabled
AdblockOnlyModeStudy:Enabled
BTMGoogleAuthWorkaround:Enabled
BraveAdblockDATCacheStudy:Enabled
BraveAdsNewTabPageAdsStudy:Enabled
BraveAdsObliviousHttpStudy:Enabled
BraveCopyCleanLinkFromJsStudy:Enabled
BraveFeedUpdateStudy:Enabled
BraveNTPBrandedWallpaperStudy:Enabled
BraveScreenFingerprintingBlockerStudy:Enabled
BraveWalletPolkadotStudy:Enabled
EmailAliasesStudy_Release:Enabled
InProcessBraveAdsServiceStudy:Enabled
UserActivityStudy:Triggers
WhatsNewStudy:Enabled

I use Android stock. Latest version. For the last 3 years I have been using signal for encrypted phonecalls. When I talk to people about specific subjects a few hours later I get recommendations on youtube based on things and keywords I mentioned during that call.

I don't have youtube installed on my android phone and removed most google apps. I also installed a firewall and blocked all remaining google apps and services too.

Signal is useless if the OS is compromised and I think at least stock android is compromised. I cannot speak for other alternative android versions like graphene OS.

Also I noticed I have got recommendations based on people I have been talking to. For example I met someone from Colombia, we talked during a meeting. I went home and I started getting recommendations based on Colombia and stuff about that country. So Android not only can listen to your conversations they can create maps about people you interact with and serve you videos based on that.

Had a trip to another city by train, there was a guy next to me, he was watching boxing videos on his laptop not his phone. He was the whole time sitting next to me. When I got home start the browser and load youtube and there you have it boxing videos recommended. Same day when I never searched for that kind of videos.

Maybe google wont passively harass most people showing them recommendations based on things they have said during their signal calls but in my case it happens most of the time and it's obvious because it's things I never searched on youtube or any search engine.

I wanted to share this because people put too much faith on signal but if the OS is listening there is nothing you can do and from personal experience android is always listening.

Firefox enables safebrowsing by default which connects to google. Sharing your data with them and can only be disabled by changing the setting in about:config

Firefox dns resolver is off but the browser still connects to cloudflare dns

Mozilla stores their data in google servers?!. hmmm

I have used firefox for many years but now I have the feeling they use some refine tweaks to get our browsing history by other means not to mention mozilla data is stored in google servers.

Il2 1946 is a very competitive AI. I can fly a mission with more than 100 units in the AI and no issues.

But gets my attention AI seems to have no cockpit blind spots and seems to be able to boost when climbing when the AI is in a low energy state.

I wonder if anyone has tried to fix that. Since we have many mod packs like BAT, VPmod and HSFX. But none has fully fixed these issues.

On the website it says 90GB of storage by the way. SSD drive has 150GB so plenty of space.