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Companies lower salaries in job postings as pay transparency laws take effect by gimlithepirate in c/workreform@lemmy.world

[-] gimlithepirate@lemmy.world 24 points 11 months ago

Corporate America is operating on the Car Dealership model: there are enough rubes to fleece it’s not worth the effort to get quality customers/employees.

’13 Reasons Why’ Star Tommy Dorfman Reveals Paltry First Season Earnings: “This is Why We Strike” by gimlithepirate in c/moviesandtv@lemmy.film

[-] gimlithepirate@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I wish these strikes would normalize talking about your salary in the US.

It's such a huge source of power employers have over workers heads. People always say "research what equivalent roles get when negotiating" but the data that's out there is crap. Companies work hard to obfuscate what they pay people.

How to make android more Private? by gimlithepirate in c/android@lemmy.world

[-] gimlithepirate@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Went to signal awhile ago, mainly because it's secure and cross platform.

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How to make android more Private? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by gimlithepirate@lemmy.world to c/android@lemmy.world

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What are everyone's recommendations on making android more private? Given Google's recent behavior around tracking and the like, I'm not really comfortable with then having all of my data. I've even contemplated going to iOS, since apple doesn't have a vested interest in me having less privacy... But I just don't like their OS lol.

I've tried GrapheneOS, and it's not awful. For usability, I did have to add Google apps back in, but at least they are sandboxes.

For the moment though, my daily driver is a Samsung S21. What can I do to make I more private?

So far, I have:

Switched to Samsung browser with adblock.
Started using duckduck go.
Installed duckduck go's app tracking protection. That was an eye opener.
Restricted location history in Google maps.

What else? I know Graphene is typically the gold standard, but I'm trying to see what I can do short of that.