They use Adblock Plus though. Would not recommend.
They use Adblock Plus though. Would not recommend.
It all kinda boils down to the Cambridge Analytica scandal for me. Harvesting people’s locations and data, accessing and logging our daily lives is what facilitates mass manipulation of the public’s opinion, therefore distorting their view of the world and killing freedom of thought. GAFAM and others are specialists in controlling their users. I ultimately don’t want to be profiled, controlled and/or rail-roaded in any aspect of my life.
I’m not very tech-savvy, and that article looks very nice, but it’s kind of old and it’s true that they haven’t been as transparent (and frequently audited) as other services and they still require a phone number to set up an account, even if you can switch to only using a username later. Also, they removed encrypted database, and Molly brings that back which is the main reason I use it. Another thing I don’t like about Signal is how ferociously they’ve tried to shut down forks in the past, and how they don’t say that you need Google Play Services for it to work properly. Sadly it’s the only “privacy-conscious” service I’ve managed to make most of my family and friends use, after trying for years.
I use the Molly-FOSS fork, do you know if that removes the metadata collection? I know it doesn’t use any Google Play Services and it comes with its own notification bubble though.
Musicolet, lets you create playlists but it can also create randomized playlists and have multiple queues at the same time. It’s not FOSS though, if that’s something you care about. But it doesn’t even connect to the internet so I don’t mind.
Tetris on Gameboy (around 1993).
Many if not most creators have complained that what Youtube pays them is ridiculous.
You’re doing exactly what they want you to do then. Why not try some alternatives for ad-free watching like Newpipe or Freetube or some such? Youtube is not worthy of your hard-earned cash…
I’d recommend Eternity for Lemmy, same developer as Infinity for Reddit, and FOSS. I too tried a bunch of Lemmy apps and I settled on Eternity because it’s pretty much a complete app. I don’t miss any features.
Asunder CD Ripper is pretty much the only one I’ve ever used and it’s great.
Muffon is awesome, I just discovered it. I actually compared audio quality to Nuclear and Muffon always pulls tracks with higher bitrates and really you can even hear the difference. Recommended by me too!
Infomaniak’s office suite for kDrive uses onlyoffice and I quite like it. Plus it’s encrypted.
Someone just posted on slrpk.net that a few instances are having stability issues right now
This is great news, I loved Infinity!
For the best fucked up movie as in THE MOST fucked up, for me it’s Gummo.
I’d love to have that
There is absolutely nothing questionable about what he said, that article you linked just says they tried to dig up dirt on him and what they found was ridiculously unscandalous