illectrility @ illectrility @sh.itjust.works

Nerd, Anime and Film Enjoyer, Video Editor, Python Dev, Learning Rust, Linu

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No worries. Not the target audience.

If you have Netflix you can check out "The Great Hack". It's about Cambridge Analytica and their role in elections. Companies can use your data to change you. Your opinions, who you vote for, what you buy. A lot of stuff.

Totally! While you're at it: Make sure to use WeChat and TikTok. Oh, also: Hoyoverse makes great games. They require admin perms but you wouldn't worry about that.

no, but seriously

I use LibreWolf as a browser and Qwant, Startpage, SearX (murena spot) and SwissCows as search engines.

All of these respect my privacy. Yandex doesn't.

Also:

I just went to Yandex.com. It immediately told me information about my "location" (I fake it). That's kind of unsettling because I never gave that info or asked for anything related to me or my location. After a single search I got prompted to install the app to search "privately without tracking". The app is rated 6/10 privacy by Exodus. Exodus lists "Yandex Ad" as one of the app trackers. Sounds lovely.

The search results are quite similar to the ones I would get on SP or Qwant. Nothing special here. Wikipedia, Maps, IMDb, stuff like that. Incredible.

I also need to do captchas regularly, which is very annoying.

It's not even particularly fast. Qwant Lite approaches warp speed in comparison.

In conclusion:

This search engine is nothing special. If you need their browser for it to do all the fancy stuff you said, it's basically a piece of shit. Websites that need browser specific code should not exist.

Agreed. After you get the hang of it, it's amazing. So many special characters and most importantly: Glide Typing!

Victorinox knife; FIDO2 key with USB-A, USB-C and NFC; small USB-A to USB-C cable with magnetic cable tie thingy

Edit: I regularly throw in a bootable Linux drive, too

Why? Isn't Rovio pretty much dead?

First of all: Yandex? You're joking, right?

Secondly: Of course this is not happening. Firefox is an open source browser. If they update it to comply with France's bs people will just use an older version or people will fork it and cut out the censoring code.

Also, what about lynx or curl? They certainly will not be censoring shit.

France is going to have a very bad time enforcing this.

I'll check it out, thanks!

Good point. It's the poorest cities and neighborhoods that have the lowest crime rate. Forgot about that, thanks for educating.

Might as well use FreeTube, NewPipe or a similar app then

LBRY is also pretty good. For YouTube I use NewPipe and FreeTube. They make it a lot better

The fuck is wrong with you?

I honestly don't get people that say "I use Chrome because I'm used to it". It's not like Firefox and Chrome are immensely different when it comes to UX, right? The interface is pretty similar.

Get a DNS Sinkhole like PiHole or use an adblocking DNS.

For YouTube I can recommend NewPipe (mobile) and FreeTube (desktop).

For everything else I use uBlock.

Edit: I don't have Instagram so I don't know how they serve ads. If they have separate domains for ads they can be blocked using a PiHole, though.

LibreWolf? That's a strange way to spell browsh.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/wait-its-all-ohio-always-has-been

I didn't know they were that compatible. That's awesome!

If you're in the EU, Taiwan or US, may I suggest a Fairphone? They have open bootloaders and support re-locking. You can get a Fairphone with /e/os pre-installed on murena.com /e/os is great and Fairphone has stellar customer support.

Edit: thanks for helping me discover Kiwix. That's awesome.

So you use Fahrenheit because Americans don't understand Celsius but you don't convert to imperial for them if they don't understand? That just seems inconsiderate as it's really no trouble at all

This triggers on so many levels. Why do Americans hate logic