Anyone knows how that fingerprinting might have worked here? Unless you used a very specific combination of browser extensions, I can’t get my head around how it could track you… Or do they maybe use external services like Google Analytics to identify users? But even that would require that you logged in somewhere else before with that same browser.

Does someone have experience with a de-googled Android phone (graphene, /e/, …) for professional use in IT? I need a ton of authenticator apps (Microsoft Authenticator, Oracle Authenticator,…), various VPN apps and privacy-invading ‘security’ apps. Does such stuff typically work without play services and with a custom rom?

In the past I used a custom rom on my private phone and already there it was a bit of hassle to get the banking app running. I’d assume it to be worse with these professional spyware apps. Am I right?

Yes, not too far away from a City with ~100k people.

PS: As a last resort - if she can’t get find someone to pick the stuff up - most places in Germany offer a service called “Sperrmüll”, a kind of garbage collection specialized on furniture which doesn’t cost much (~5€ per m³).

Half a year ago I posted a 15 year old Flat Screen TV, a 2.1 sound system, a smoke detector set and a couch table from Ikea for free. I had more than 100 messages in two hours and everything was picked up on the same day. I guess it really depends on what you want to get rid of and at what price. If you give away good stuff for cheap or free, there’ll be a ton of attention. Old fashioned furniture however might be rather hard to get rid of.

You can add…

Kleinanzeigen.de and Hood.de for Germany and Vinted.net for several European countries. I use Vinted and Kleinanzeigen quite a lot and had plenty of positive experiences.

Persönlich würde ich meine Kaufentscheidung auch nicht einzig und allein vom Merkmal US/Nicht-US/EU abhängig machen. Es gibt massenhaft Faktoren, die je nach persönlichen Vorlieben und Produktgruppe eine Kaufentscheidung beeinflussen können: Vegan, Bio, lokale Produktion, ökologisch, Haltbarkeit, Reparierbarkeit, Ressourcenschonung, faire Löhne, keine Kinderarbeit, Sicherheit, Geschmack/Gefallen, Preis…

Ich finde die Europa-Bewegung gut, fände es aber teilweise auch am Ziel vorbeigeschossen, wenn man zum Beispiel verstärkt Nestlé-Produkte kaufen würde, um einen US-Hersteller zu vermeiden.

I use this one which is the eco-line store brand of the German drug store DM.

https://www.dm.de/alverde-naturkosmetik-zahnpasta-5in1-nanaminze-p4066447341508.html

A great alternative with less plastic are also these little dental cleaning tablets. They are basically dehydrated toothpaste. You just chew the tab and then brush your teeth as usual.

https://www.dm.de/dontodent-zahnputztabletten-p4066447502381.html

Bei mir waren es bis jetzt immer MP3s. Spricht da was dagegen? Bei einem Hörbuch würde ich mir jetzt bei FLAC o.ä. keinen signifikanten Mehrwert versprechen und MP3 dürfte hinsichtlich Kompatibilität mit Apps und Abspielgeräten so ziemlich das universellste sein, oder?

Ja, so ganz erschließt sich mir auch nicht, wieso man - wenn man dieses Abo kennt - noch Hörbücher zum Vollpreis kaufen sollte. Und es lohnt sich wie gesagt auch schon bei weniger als 12, da du ja z.B. nach drei Monaten wieder kündigen kannst. Man kann übrigens auch, wenn man mal mehr Hörbücher braucht als eines pro Monat noch beliebig viele weitere für 7,95€ dazukaufen, wenn man im Abo ist.

Andererseits: Bevor ich das Thalia-Abo entdeckt habt, habe ich mir meine Hörbücher gebraucht bei Kleinanzeigen / Medimops auf CD gekauft. Jetzt macht Thalia circa 90€ Umsatz im Jahr mit mir. Je nachdem, was sie die Lizenzen kosten, vielleicht schon lukrativ.

OK, sorry to hear that. As you mentioned audiobooks.com, are you looking for English content maybe? So far, I only downloaded German stuff but of course definitely possible that I’ve just been lucky so far.

Are these books available as audiobooks in general? At least so far, everything I wanted was part of the subscription, even really expensive and/or new stuff.

In Germany you can have a look at the Thalia Hörbuch-Abo. First month free, afterwards 7,95€ per month. You can download one audiobook per month as MP3s. It’s completely DRM free, you do not need to install any additional apps and you can cancel monthly. If you don’t download anything in a period, you collect credits which you can redeem later, also after you cancelled. For the 7,95€ fee you can download audiobooks that are usually way more expensive. I had one that’s regularly priced at 40€.

https://www.thalia.de/hoerbuch-download/dauerformate/hoerbuch-download-abo

Their HQ seems to be in San Francisco though and they have a US stock symbol. So I guess they pay the majority of taxes in the US, no?

If you don’t have a problem with second hand, I’d recommend to check out Vinted. If you live in Germany you can also check Kleinanzeigen.

I got several pairs of barefoot shoes in good condition there for relatively cheap.

I had shoes from Leguano, Wildling, Merrell (US) and vivobarefoot.

It’s like living in medium sized town

I really like that analogy and think it fits quite well! There are by far too many users to know them all, but as you scroll through your feed and all, you keep recognizing users who you once had a discussion with or who keep posting or commenting interesting stuff to your favorite communities.

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How did you manage that with a mini aux connector?

Later this year, when the feature is fully implemented, Workspace users with E2EE enabled will be able to send encrypted messages to any external email users. Instead of the message, recipients will receive a link that, when clicked, will take them to a restricted version of Gmail where they need to authenticate with the organization’s chosen identity provider to view the decrypted message. External users will also be able to reply within the same restricted Gmail interface.

How can it be end2end then? If you don’t have some kind of public key of your recipient, but they are still able to read the message once they proofed their identity, that means that the secret to decrypt the mail is stored on Google servers and/or part of the link which is send in a non-encrypted plain-text mail.

Maybe try to add a bit more valuable content to your post. I saw Tuta being mentioned a lot lately and so far never recognized people being banned for that.

I just browse all from time to time and if I recognize interesting / funny content from a community several times I subscribe.