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No Bullshit Bitcoin news@primal.net 2 years ago
Ledger Live Tracks and Sends ALL User Information to Outsourced Data Harvesting Service "The tracking code is too structural to be just counting users and downloads, like regular apps do. Ledger Live is doing analytics on everything from screen views, to button clicks, error events, installs, uninstalls, etc. It's basically tracking everything. Anything you do on that app gets tracked."
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Ledger Live Tracks and Sends ALL User Information to Outsourced Data Harvesting Service
"Ledger Live is phoning out data on assets you hold in your hardware wallet the moment you access Ledger Live. It's also sending out tons of other ...

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O Expedicionário 2 years ago
🤬 Was about to install the damn thing. Would be useful to explain how to opt-out from sharing analytics? Gonna take a look
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🍊⚡adam sandals adamsandals@nostrplebs.com 2 years ago
Don't use Ledger if you can avoid it. Every bit of news about these guys is worst than the last. If you do own a Ledger or know someone who does, and aren't in a position to get a better device, at least set it up in the best way possible, avoiding Ledger live. There is a great article by arman the parman that walks you through this process. You only use Ledger live initially to download the Bitcoin app, then you never touch it again. Then you set up a fresh Bitcoin wallet offline and connect to sparrow wallet.
Connect Ledger to Sparrow Bitcoin Wallet – Bitcoin Guides
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bitcoin.rocks hi@bitcoin.rocks 2 years ago
Big surprise! The company that admits they can access your private keys also collects sensitive data. Who could have guessed!
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Ken 🎋 japanhodl@iris.to 2 years ago
Ledger is a TERRIBLE product and company for so many reasons, I've lost count. Braindead shitcoiners using this piece of 💩 is expected. But Bitcoiners should know better, and need to remember history. View quoted note →
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Cui Bono 2 years ago
A Ledger spokesperson refuted that, saying, “Customers can create an encrypted backup of their private keys which is then sharded and encrypted further […] The private key can only be decrypted and reconstituted on a Ledger’s secure element chip, just as it is initially encrypted and fragmented there. Ledger cannot and does not access users’ private keys.”
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bitcoin.rocks hi@bitcoin.rocks 2 years ago
Yes and the CEO said if they receive a government subpoena they can decrypt the shards and hand over your coins. Also, their software is closed source so there is no way to verify it is doing what they say it is doing. Ledger is not cold storage.
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npub17e58...pgql 2 years ago
Yup. I ditched mine a year ago. For those who don't know...Coldcard + Sparrow FTW After you make that move, improve upon it via: - Umbrel node (on Raz Pi) - Bitcoin node on umbrel - Electrum server on umbrel - Sparrow gets data from Electrum server Now you can access the blockchain more privately thru your Sparrow wallet.
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