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Update/Revision of this post originally published on 1 DEC 2021.

Most people have a smartphone and the odds are this smartphone is either an iPhone (iOS) or some flavor of Google Android.

Unfortunately, in a myriad of ways, neither are exactly th...

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This post was originally published on 3 NOV 2021; it has since been updated and revised.

Just about any closed-source, proprietary operating system - such as Windows or macOS - is likely not going to be beneficial for your privacy. Many closed...

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Microsoft Windows 10 (and the newer edition, Windows 11) is a data collection machine that phones home a lot.

Some examples of the data Windows collects:

  • Searches (which get forwarded to Bing, Microsoft's search engine)
  • Voice data (for device...

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