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Who to follow on ? We are trying to give new users a better start and selected a couple of profiles for related topics: social.privacytools.io/about/m

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Dan Arel  

While I work on a new ThinkPrivacy site, I changed to a single page design for now to be the solution to what I think pages like PrivacyTools got wrong when nesting too many of their pages.

thinkprivacy.io

I hope this is even easier for people to access.

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@danarel Hi Dan, just found your website. I've added you to our follow list here:

social.privacytools.io/about/m

We also run a GitLab and Mastodon instance, in case you are considering switching:

git.privacytools.io/

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blacklight447  

Privacytools.io life

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EFF: Guide to Choosing a Messenger. Step-by-step guides and detailed information on secure messaging apps for Android, iOS, Windows, Mac and Linux.

securechatguide.org/effguide.h

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Nikola Lakić  

If you are using Firefox and YouTube seems slow to load you can speed it up (up to 5x) with this tweak in about:config.
-Open new tab and enter about:config (accept if prompted for warranty risk)
-Right click on any preference and go New>String
>As preference name copy/paste:
general.useragent.override.youtube.com
As preference value copy/paste:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:41.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/41.0
For darkmode you can install Stylus addon and pick theme you like.

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You can also vote here with more options: forum.privacytools.io/t/poll-w

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What is your favorite everyday Browser?

111 votes · Apr 19, 2019, 08:39
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Google intentionally slows down YouTube on Firefox by 80% by using old libraries that are unsupported by Firefox because they were deprecated.

9to5google.com/2018/07/25/yout

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Google disproportionately hits Firefox users with Captchas.

reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/

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Google intentionally serves old version of Google Shopping to Firefox users, changing user agent to Chrome (while still on Firefox) fixes it.

reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/

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A former high-ranking executive has accused of intentionally and systematically sabotaging over the past decade in order to boost 's adoption.

zdnet.com/article/former-mozil

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How to Live Without Google and Other Evil Tech Giants: write.privacytools.io/paulakre

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Strypey  

#TIL #PrivacyTools.io have a #Discourse (forum.privacytools.io) and a #Mastodon instance:
social.privacytools.io/public

Great to see the team creating replacements for their use of #DataFarms like Reddit and the birdsite.

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Paula  

I just published an article about avoiding Google and other big tech companies: Show more

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Julian Assange: Honest Government Ad
youtube.com/watch?v=1efOs0BsE0

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Our Discourse Forum is live now. Feel free to join us: forum.privacytools.io

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Jonah  

Attention everyone! The social.privacytools.io instance is going to go offline tomorrow around 2 PM Central Time as we migrate servers. Hopefully the downtime won’t last too long 😄

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UPDATE: Forgot to post the link to the reddit thread. LastPass is still online, it was just the end for a reddit user.

reddit.com/r/privacytoolsIO/co

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The end of , where to go now? People on reddit love over how about on ?

76 votes · Apr 22, 2019, 15:10
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