Top all-time · #24035
JUMBO Blog: Making everyone safer online
Company blog · blog.jumboprivacy.comsecurityproductivity
JUMBO Blog: Making everyone safer online is the company blog at blog.jumboprivacy.com, writing about security and productivity. Since 2019, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this blog for posts on how the Jumbo privacy app works, including its client-side architecture and the list of Facebook privacy settings it supports.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
We want to help build an internet we can all trust. Learn how to take back control of your online privacy and security today.
What Hacker News says?
Yes, I agree we need to add more options for Twitter. These will come in a future update, in May/June. Thanks for the feedback. For Facebook, the full list of Settings we support is here: https://blog.jumboprivacy.com/smart-privacy-for-facebook.htm... Jumbo disables ads personalization, face recogonization, and soon location data storage. Feel free to ask me more questions. Pierre CEO Jumbo
Comment linking /smart-privacy-for-facebook.html
on “Jumbo: Privacy Assistant for iPhone”Submitted Jumbo, your Privacy Assistant, launches today as a story · 4 points
HN discussionYou are raising a good question.. Jumbo works 100% client-side, that's why we have built it as a native app. You can read more on our architecture on our blog: https://blog.jumboprivacy.com/secure-jumbo-never-sees-your-d... It's quite cool. We don't have any servers processing your data. Pierre, CEO Jumbo.
Comment linking /secure-jumbo-never-sees-your-data.html
on “Jumbo: Privacy Assistant for iPhone”Submitted Privacy Review: North Dakota's Contact Tracing App 'Care19' leaks data to Google as a story · 2 points
HN discussiontl;dr: The Care19 app [1] leaks advertising ID and/or location data to Foursquare and Google [2] 'The Care19 privacy policy indicates that “Your data is identified by an anonymous code.” We were able to validate that the app, indeed, uses an anonymous code (in the format of US-84825167-5 or something similar). However, our research has found that the anonymous code was transmitted to: 'Foursquare, along with the pho…
Comment linking /jumbo-privacy-review-north-dakota-s-contact-tracing-app.html
on “North Dakota’s Covid-19 app has been sending data to Foursquare and Google”