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How can I protect my privacy when using Google Classroom (sh.itjust.works)
 

Hello everyone,

As the title says, I need to use Google Classroom for a class I'm taking with my local school. I didn't get a choice in tooling unfortunately. I have in my private life cut google out, not having used Gmail in over a decade, using Youtube through invidious, OSM instead of Google Maps, etc.

I'm already planning on using either Firefox multiple account containers or a different dedicated browser for school stuff entirely. Is there any other advice you have to protect my privacy as much as possible?

I'm in the EU and I know Google is more limited in the data they can collect from educational uses, but obviously I don't trust Google.

Privacy Search Engines in c/privacy@lemmy.ml
[–] pumpkin@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Just looked it up since I was sure I had read they had their own. On their wikipedia article it says:

In its early days on the Internet, the Qwant search engine relied on Bing to provide more relevant results. In 2016, Qwant claimed to be increasingly using its own results from its own exploration robots. It is still at the status of hybrid engine.[89] In 2020, Qwant claimed to have exceeded 50% of independent results for web searches, and 70% for all researchs

so I guess it's both bing and their own thing.

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[–] pumpkin@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

Agreed, it feels like it's a strong signal they don't take privacy seriously.

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[–] pumpkin@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I think Qwant does too, right?

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Problem with a community on another instance in c/main@sh.itjust.works
[–] pumpkin@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I have all the languages available to select selected, but swedish unfortunately isn't one of them

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Problem with a community on another instance (sh.itjust.works)
 

I found and subscribed to https://sh.itjust.works/c/sverige@lemmy.helvetet.eu yesterday and when I view it on sh.itjust.works I don't see any posts but on the original instance I'm seeing many posts.

Does anyone know what's going on there?

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[–] pumpkin@sh.itjust.works -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I knew neochat existed but wasn't able to use it as it didn't used to support end-to-end encryption, but I noticed recently that they've added support for it so I've switched. It's been great, I use matrix both at work and at home and I love being able to native implementation.

Definitely worth giving a try if you haven't already.

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[–] pumpkin@sh.itjust.works -1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I really like these "for" pages KDE are making recently, for those who haven't seen they've also done:

I think they do a good job of showcasing some really awesome software KDE have.