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  • You don't need to fiddle with VPN, have a machine up all day that don't cost you electricity, usually more bandwidth, and potentially downsize your home internet plan.

    Drawbacks include more limited storage, paid extra, and the need to download to local.

    Just to note that seedbox only works if you just view the material for a few times, not hoarding. IMHO as long as you maintain a share ratio of 2 or above you're good to delete the file after you done with it, unless you're on PT.

  • I guess what he mean the service must proof itself legit by actions, rather saying it out loud in a FAQ.

    Still, that FAQ explicitly saying they are legit gives me the feel of "The lady doth protest too much, methinks,".

  • The whole point of opensource is making your source code public. Even if you can disable history viewing in GL, someone can still mirrors your repo and diff it for changes. The only way to not let people see changes is simply not open sourcing it.

    Private submodule can help hiding some of your code and configurations, but this only helps hiding parts of the repo, including its history. You can't preventing people measuring changes of your webpage once online as anyone can just archive it.

  • When you look for comparisons between products, look for one that is done by a non-biased neutral organization, third party at minimum. Not from the company making the product hence have an incentive to paint them better than its competitor.

    You can make a stronger point if you go and verify each claim in the comparsion chart and proving Brave is actually better than Firefox. Instead of just linking a comparison blog from Brave. Don't trust, verify.

    And a matter of fact, privacy is only a part of what a browser should have. Not a complete feature set. I can make an extra private browser that only accepts my custom protocol and only with my websites but that would be not useful as a general browser one wants to daily drive, which is what Firefox aiming to do.

  • The vaule of the data totally relies on the aggregation process. It involves grouping, categorizing, and linking the unstructured data into a relatable and structured format. For example, A data harvesting company can use their own existing data and link a Lemmy user to a known identity or the probability to a known identity, using techniques like NLP and statistics. That's value.

    Data most of the time are free, but there are also datasets sold for a price.

  • Ads they won't (At least I believe so.) But I won't be surprised that some data harvesting companies have servers set up to collect all the data, aggregate, and sell it. Lemmy is an openly federated platform after all.