New version of the guide for change (I'm not the author)
New version of the guide for change (I'm not the author)
Spotify shouldn't be on this list... They exploit artists and platform joe rogans horseshit for profit
And i think they donated money to Trump also.
Qobuz is great though, they also provide lossless music which Spotify still don’t.
New version still misspells it "Mastadon" haha
Master Don.
Why Waterfox over LibreWolf? I have only used LibreWolf, which is my 99%-of-the-time browser, and I am curious.
Why not use something like Matrix (Element) as a messenger alternative?
I found it difficult to transfer contacts there compared to signal, but you're right, it's better.
Again, add Matrix or xmpp instead of just Signal & Disroot as well in the email section
I would recommend deezer over Spotify. Spotify enables Rogan and all his bullshit
Qobuz! It pays artists the best out of any streaming service appartenly
How is deezer these days? Last time I used it is many years ago.
edit: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Access_Industries Access Industries owns Deezer. They invest in the US and Israel and have donated millions to republicans in the past.
Or Qobuz (both are french)
Honest question, is Switzerland a part of the EU now, or do they just get a pass for being surrounded?
@RvTV95XBeo @SrMono No, but what is your gripe? Located in Europe. Spend most of their money in Europe and have the same general mentality. Strongly focused on privacy.
They are not an official member, but being surrounded by EU countries lead to them being included in a lot of treaties and such.
Oftentimes they are considered friendly.
After switching your search engine, hop into your European time-machine and go back to February to continue this guide.
Orion is not a paid browser. Kagi, however, is a paid search engine, and Orion was made by the Kagi team. The browser is completely free and is in all Apple OSs (coming to Linux soon) and gathers absolutely no data. And the browser comes with no search engine chosen by default so it isn’t really an ad for Kagi.
I personally think it’s amazing especially how you can have both Firefox and Chrome extensions on it. Its only issue is it being proprietary.
Orion was really well made. It is still beta, but when it is more stable, I'll give it a second go! 100% recommended.
Both Tuta and Proton have a free tier for their email. Also, I think Infomaniak's kmail might be an even better replacement for the typical email/cloud providers than the aforementioned, for normies at least.
Why does nobody ever remember about the Vivaldi browser?
It's also chromium based. But other than that it's european and a pretty cool browser!
What makes Vivaldi better than other Chromium-based browsers in terms of privacy and such?
Well, certainly not nobody, I hear it mentioned quite often on the internet! Just make sure to keep talking about it, if you want it to get more popular :D
can anybody explain why people hate on Waterfox? I'm using it for over a year now and it's been great so far!
I think it's about none of Firefox forks being remotely capable of evolving on their own. So any large scale push to leave Firefox for any of these forks might only hurt Firefox which would in turn hurt its forks.
My insignificant opinion on the matter is that it's great to have different flavors of Firefox that might be better suited for you, but it doesn't appear to lead to a solution to the underlying issue.
why people hate on Waterfox?
it used to be owned by an ad company, so I guess some people just don't want to put their trust back in yet
Is Waterfox the most recommended Firefox alternative nowadays after the recent Firefox controversy?
Also not sure I would call Proton privacy focused. I still use it, but they have been rating out an environment activist to French authorities before.
Is it possible to set up a signal server, or is it not completely FOSS?
It isn't at all. It is closed source powered by an American non-profit organization. You can consider this organization as
friendly.They recurrently said, they would shut the gates if U.S. government/law wants them to store more than metdata (phone number+last activity date) they are storing.
you can set up your own server for your own needs as far as I know, but you'll probably have to build your own version of the client to connect to it. there's no decentralisation.
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Very good question and one of the big critic points about signal.
It is theoretically foss, but so complicated apparently, (or parts missing?) that it seems nobody ever menaged to set it up.
So in effect it it proprietary.
And since I is lock-in there is also no incentive to start another server. That's one reason to use federated protocols.:xmpp:
Where's the part suggesting getting off social media altogether, and stocking up on guns, ammo, and cans of beans?
@skeptomatic @SrMono You find that aplenty over on Matrix...
Kmail suite for mails, cloud... (Switzerland ). They have a free plan (15GO for the cloud), and the cheapest paid plan is 2€/month for 1TO (20€/year ).
Threema for discussions (Switzerland) . The application costs 5€, definitvely not cheap for an app, but it is a one time paiement.
Swisscows (Switzerland), mullvad Leta (Sweden) as search engine. => they do not use their own index system but brave (or google, you can choose for mullvad)All those options are Europeans and have strong privacy policies.
Last time I read here that Tidal is American. Which is it then?
In what way is mastodon privacy focused?
Well, the flyer originated here: https://old.reddit.com/r/BuyFromEU/comments/1jcr8ks/here_is_the_new_and_improved_guide_to_help_you/ but mastodon stands out as it has no commercial driver. There aren't any ad-services profiling you, so that is a big win for your privacy.
There's also the free ksuite mail/drive as a free email alternative!
@SrMono isn't bluesky also US owned
Absolutely, and they evaluate training AI on user content. It's just a stopgap solution, I would always recommend mastodon instead.
Ecosia also has a browser for Android and Windows/Mac. Just not Linux. Vivaldi is great for Linux.