Full stack developer and privacy advocate. I like to keep the mentality, if you can program one language well, then you can program in any language!
I get the sentiment,
however when the user base of a FOSS alternative grows beyond the closed source alternative, a switch can happen.
So it would be a good thing to have a FOSS alternative out there, which can accumulate a user base over time.
Without any alternatives being developed,
a switch can never happen.
After a brief scroll through their source repo, I think it’s a set of patches which gets applied by a script while compiling the browser from source.
So it’s unlikely that it will be susceptible,
unless they forget to patch some telemetry out during a release, which is unlikely, since the projects goal is data privacy + security.
Fork of FireFox,
with a focus on data privacy + security:
https://librewolf.net/
I’d also like to add IronFox,
similar to LibreWolf, but for mobile:
https://gitlab.com/ironfox-oss/IronFox/
Hi OP, I do the same thing during winters.
For XMR,
you can increase the profits a bit with XmrVsBeast + Gupaxx
It’s on F-Droid,
but you’ve gotta add their repo:
That link can also be found on their Gitlab:
I lately have a saying:
“If it’s not FOSS, it’s not worth your time”
YouTube has been cracking down on alternative frontends.
Vanilla Invidious currently doesn’t work well,
so most hosters paused and/or gave up.
Fijxu runs a fork of Invidious,
with their own modifications implemented to circumvent the blocks,
here’s the source code if you’re interested:
https://git.nadeko.net/Fijxu/invidious
I’ve got big respect for Fijxu,
he’s been doing a very good job of keeping Invidious alive + fighting against the YouTube crackdown lately, basically all on his own.
If you can please consider:
All the above can help Fijxu,
since currently he’s mostly fighting a big tech giant all on his own.
Day 1 8:30 - I’ll fix this in a few minutes
Day 1 8:30 - 17:00 - Head to desk banging
Day 1 17:00 - Fuck you and see you tomorrow
Day 2 8:45 - Fuck that was an easy fix,
why didn’t I think of that yesterday
And by continuing to use it,
it will stay that way.
Just don’t, plenty of other 2nd hand sites out there, with plenty of products available.
OP I appreciate the reasoning.
But I’d advise against it,
and would recommend users to delete their Facebook account asap.
Why? 4-5 years ago I already noticed the “illusion of free speech” on Facebook.
The platform is a data farm,
but I’m a data privacy advocate,
so I regularly posted data privacy articles/tools.
Which went against the best interest of Facebook, so they simply held back that content from nearly everyone’s feed, resulting in it getting nearly zero attention.
But if I posted a dumb meme,
it would get a lot of attention.
I’ve asked around to friends back in the day who where scrolling online if they saw my data privacy posts, none did.
So staying on the platform to advertise things that go against Facebooks best interest, will likely not yield good results.
However deleting your account,
is a great conversation starter that can easily be directed into WOM (Word of Mouth) marketing, to teach your friends and family about Fediverse tools.
It does seem interesting,
but I remain skeptical.
This means putting your trust in Obscura, since they’re the 1st hop, receiving your data without additional encryption, a new player, who yet has to prove that they’re trustworthy.
Sure their Github may show great software, but that doesn’t mean we can see which software they might additionally install on their servers.
Meanwhile Mullvad has already been proven to be trustworthy through the best possible review any VPN company can receive, being: Server seized by the feds, but zero useful info retrieved by them.
Which proves they back up their claim of being a No-Log VPN.
Due to this I trust Mullvad,
and don’t have any issues with sending them my data.
But I can’t put the same faith in Obscura yet, not before they receive a similar “review”.
For those that don’t know:
It was a jump-scare flash game.
The goal was to navigate through the maze with your mouse, without touching the walls, which gets harder near the end, likely resulting in you getting closer to and concentrating hard on the screen.
Near the end they flashed a horror image and blasted a loud sound through your speakers.
Personally, it didn’t make me flinch much though,
but I guess it affected some others like OP.
Yes Fediverse software can challenge the tech giants,
but we can and must expect them to fight against it as soon as it gets on their radar!
They’ll likely will attempt to do so by:
We should already try to harness ourselves against the direct attacks.
And help with spreading Fediverse software through WOM (Word-Of-Mouth) marketing,
since the tech giants certainly will not help it spread themselves.
The Fediverse is one of the few sparks of hope I have remaining lately,
let us ignite these sparks together into something bright!
If the fines regarding to it are in proportion with the revenue of the business, then it likely would make a lot of them think twice about doing so.
I agree that it’s hard to enforce the rules,
and that some would still ignore them.
However updating the rules give the abused people a chance of getting justice/consolidation for their stolen work, and diminishes the chance of companies breaking the rules.
It would not combat bit torrent (P2P) piracy.
But that’s also not that important imo.
Most pirates are rather poor folks,
just trying to watch/play some content which they can’t afford, they make up for a rather neglible amount of the profit that can be had.
However it would combat billion dollar companies that would use pirated content to train LLMs to sell further. All they need is x1 internal whistleblower about doing so, and they could be fined with an amount larger then the risk is worth.
No copyright law seems dangerous to me,
why create content if you can just steal it,
and earn on the back of the original creator without consequences?
I think I’d rather see it updated instead.
E.g. To hold AI companies and users accountable.
So they need explicit approval of copyright holders before they’re allowed to train upon / use their data.
Ahhh sad to hear, but thanks for your reply,
now I know that I can stop searching,
and start hoping for quick implementation of Wireguard config support for Netbird :)
Thanks for your suggestion, but after going through the Github issues,
I’m afraid that it’s not possible yet to connect to Netbird using a Wireguard config file:
I believe Briar currently is one of the best options out there, together with SimpleX.
However I lack usage experience with both.
Since no one I know makes use of them…
It was already hard enough to convince only a handful of my friends to start using Session and Matrix/Element (which are not the best options anymore), but I’m kinda doubtful about my success rate of making them switch once again…
My success with convincing people to use Telegram has been better though, since that’s the most commonly known, but nearly no one wants to install an app they never heard off before, just to chat with only me :P
Also “convincing people” lately goes smth like this for me:
*Don’t Use Session,
if your threat profile includes government’s spending ±100k to crack your encryption, since their encryption is not the best out there.
Which they likely won’t for an average privacy conscious user, but they might for high ranking criminals.
It was a good read though,
I won’t invite new people to Session due to it.
But the title is a little click-baity,
“Session’s encryption is not the best”,
would be a more honest title.
Best mod ever! <3