Zerush @ Zerush @lemmy.ml

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Yes, but in the EU a lot of the functions can't be used because of the GDPR and privacy law, the police always need a court order to investigate a person. Mass surveillance are not possible (at least for the moment)

Until now more known in the US, not so much in the EU

https://www.indiatvnews.com/trending/news/worlds-most-tattooed-man-now-works-as-primary-school-teacher-sylvain-helaine-2023-04-18-864583

(Worse that there don't exist any front-end viable for Facebook/Meta)

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Yes, there are several privacy-focused alternative TikTok frontends:

ProxiTok is the main open-source alternative frontend for TikTok[^1]. It allows you to:

• Watch TikTok videos without connecting to TikTok servers
• Create following lists to track specific users
• Access RSS feeds for users and trending content
• Browse without ads or tracking

StickTock is another privacy frontend that lets you watch TikTok content by replacing "tiktok.com" with "sticktock.com" in any video URL[^2]. It offers both clearnet and Tor onion addresses.

Offtiktok provides similar functionality by adding "off" before "tiktok" in URLs[^3]. It includes a minimalist feed for watching recommended videos without ads or geo-restrictions.

All these frontends are:

• Free and open-source
• Self-hostable
• Privacy-focused (requests go through their servers instead of directly to TikTok)
• Ad-free [^{1]: [ProxiTok - GitHub](https://github.com/pablouser1/ProxiTok) [}2]: StickTock: A New Open-Source Privacy Frontend for TikTok [^3]: GitHub - MarsHeer/offtiktok

IQ is a relative measure, pretending to be the % of the normal level of a individual in a similar age, in resumen: Relative to what or whom?. Intelligence isn't medible directly, because it isn't a objective value, depending on the test, it isn't only the capability to solve problems, it's also the capability to interact with others, emphatic capability, kinetic capabilities. Eg. Newton maybe was a genios with an IQ of 190 in Science and Math, but in interactions with others stupid like a brick (Asperger syndrom)

With this, Vivaldi remains as the only usefull browser from Europe. Konqueror is usefull only for certain tech collectives.

List of alternatives

• Gecko browsers, nice and valid, but if you need a sync function, if you don't have an own third party or selfhosted one, you need an account with Mozilla, which itself has turned in an advertising company and your account data is shared with Alphabet. They only exist because of the support from Google. Without sync, maybe Zen or Floorp.
• Blink (Chromium) browser Brave, but ads and some shady relations with crypto companies and supported by Facebook. Opera is as private as Chrome or EDGE itself, even less
• Otter Browser (Qt5), nice one, but with difficults to survive.
• SSuite Netsurf (WebView), nice and fast, also reasonable private, but apart the inclusion of the SSuite online Tools, not much possibility to customize (Windows only) The last 2 maybe usefull in old PC with few resources.

There are also some other marginal forks, but mostly without warranty to be further attended and updated. This is the current panorama, anybody to their like.

Not a problem in Vivaldi, you can install even pure scripts as extension, without the need of an Userscript Manager, like TamperMonkey or similar. Due to the great amount of features, most extension from the Chrome Store are anyway redundant.

It is for sure delicious, but those who tested, never said it

Agree, it's the problem with closed source, but also easy with FOSS with bad maintenance, even more, because also the hacker can see the source code, without the need to desensamble it. In Vivaldi some of the UI part (5%) is proprietary, but not really closed source in it's sense of meaning, apart it has a continuous maintenance, with snapshot releases and frequent updates, a great community with the participation of the team and beta-testers. Very transparent all this, no space for fishy or shady things.

Vivaldi (a employee owned cooperative from Norway) was since years active against the shady practices of US companies and one of the promotors, along with the Consumer Organisation from Norway and some others, which caused the current EU GDPR law. Nowadays it's needed to promoting European products and services to gain sovereignty from the US hegemony of big corporations. but sadly in browsers there are only three from Europe: Vivaldi (Norway), Mullvad (Sweden) and Konqueror (KDE, Germany), the other one, UR (France) is dead since a lot of years.

Mullvad is maybe the most private browser after TOR, but apart of this not much more, Sync with Mozilla account which is a no-go for me. Konqueror, based on the KHTML engine (Grandfather of Blink and WebKit) is Linux desktop only, interesting features, but few extensions and somewhat limited. Well, end of the choices.

Even EDGE is a ungoogled Chromium (but containing M$ tracking APIs instead). Vivaldi IS a degoogled Chromium, a small part of the UI (by far the most advanced one of any other browser) is proprietary, but not really obfuscated, they show even in the support forum how the user can modding it, if for him isn't enough what he can do in the most complete setting page ever, the only thing is, you can't use it for other browser projects. It's certainly not a privacy or security issue.

Chromium as is, is 100% FLOSS but because of this isn't more private or secure as a proprietary soft, FLOSS isn't automaticly synonym of privacy and security, a lot of people confuse it, it's not the propósit of OpenSource, privacy and security of an soft depends only of the intentions of the developer or company, not if their soft is OSS or not. The user can audit the soft, which in any case is needed if he don't want or be able to check millons of lines in the code which a complex soft like a browser engine has.

Works by the skin color, I suppose, more dark greater the possibility of an terrorist or worse, a communist. To keep America clean and hetero WASP

Netanyahu don't want it, if he don't send food he don't longer know where to launch the bombs to the crowds.

They are always Heisenberg Cats, it's impossible to know their location in any moment (well, except if there is any cardboard box near)

Too many MAGA assholes and bootlickers out there, good for Canada and Spain to show them the middle finger

A human has 46 chromosomes, a potato 48, this also explains some things.

Insomnium is one of my most favorite bands, but certainly its hard for an nordic Metalband in a country where are at least 5-6 good Metalbands in every little village.

The melodeath metal band Insomnium didn't act in the Covid pandemy, because their guitarrist was working in the creation of vaccines.