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I suppose “harm” can be subjective in this context, and there are already some good replies here.
One more thing to add to the list that I’d consider harmful in creating a Gmail account is all of the privacy issues that come with having a Gmail account.
Out of respect for my recipients and myself, I wouldn’t want all of our emails being read.
We can go down the rabbit hole of “Email is inherently insecure anyways,” but that’s a separate discussion.
Nice to see this as a standard, thanks. Edited to reflect this.
Don’t worry, it’s not complicated at all. A little inconvenient maybe, but that’s always the trade-off when it comes to privacy and security.
Here are the two most convenient ways that I can think of on each OS.
iOS: Bookmark the frontend URL. When you get sent a link, pop open the page and paste the TikTok URL.
Android: Get Firefox and set it as your default browser. Install the LibRedirect add-on (browser extension). Whenever you get sent a URL, just tap it and it’ll automatically get redirected to the privacy-friendly frontend.
Only time will tell.
I know this one also went down recently for Instagram: proxigram.privacyfrontends.repl.co
But I’m not sure if it was an Instagram change that did it, or Replit took it down or what.
Most of my friends know better than to send me TikTok links. But for the few who still do, I use this open source frontend called ProxiTok.
To get TikTok links to redirect automatically on click, use the LibRedirect extension.
uBlock Origin filter lists is what seems to work best. You get nothing but the raw URL.
Not at the moment. You’ll have to use ClearURLs or uBlock Origin filter lists if you don’t wanna have to right click.
More here: https://lemmy.world/comment/5626180
Synology Photos. I’ve heard Immich is quite good too.
It’d be helpful to learn more about your requirements. Does it need to be open source? Any must-have features? Native apps? Etc.
Lotta good recommendations here. If you get GrapheneOS, you could get any keyboard (including GBoard) and turn off its network access at the app level (as well as sensors and other permissions), which would make virtually any keyboard privacy-friendly.
Who doesn’t like an underdog? 😤
I looked for it in about:config, but I couldn’t narrow it down and see which parameter it was (if it’s even in there at all yet).
Also searching for this answer. https://lemmy.world/comment/5626130
Can’t wait til the entire extension ecosystem is available on mobile
If anything, URLCheck is even more necessary on mobile devices, particularly iOS where Firefox is just reskinned Safari. On Firefox for Android, you could install the ClearURLs extension, or use uBlock Origin filter lists.
With that said, there are other use cases. For example: Friends or family might share URLs from social media. They often contain unique identifiers that you can strip before clicking the link by using URLCheck.
More on this here: https://a.lemmy.world/lemmy.world/post/8443034
As of this writing, it doesn’t look like it.
As @SatyrSack@lemmy.one here mentioned, URLChecker is a good way to manipulate a URL before opening it.
What do you mean? Tons of links on the web have trackers appended to the URL.
Sounds like it. It happens with other Google services too. Someone could share a GDoc to your non-Gmail email, but if that non-Gmail email isn’t a Google account, then you won’t be able to access the doc/comments/whatever else (depending on the doc permissions, of course).