Freddy @freddyym@social.privacytools.io

Python: We made this really great programming language, you should use it!

Me: Okay, hooray!

Python: We made a bunch of minor improvements, please rewrite all your scripts to use this new version!

Me: Uh, why? My stuff works. I'm busy. Leave me be.

Python: Use our new thing or we break your computer.

Me: Fuck you, I'm going back to writing C code.

If I posted text posts about anything I cared about on facebook the algorithm would not show it to almost anyone thats even following me. It would literally just drop off the radar and be forgotten. I post a random thought here and people from around the world actually have a chance to respond. That is powerful. That cant be underplayed. The fact that we dont have to worry whether our messages have financial viability makes our ideas stronger. Our voices ring.

What is Tor?

Well played, Emma. #Jeopardy #TournamentOfChampions

Do you manage a list of privacy-protecting open-source alternatives to apps and websites? Please share a brief description and the URL.

#foss #privacy #infosec #private #ff #followfriday #switch #social #facebook #google #amazon

Reminder: Humans have existed for like 200,000 years, and there are around 9 billion humans alive right now. Whatever you’re struggling with, someone else is struggling with it too, and we’ve been struggling with it for millennia.

The point: you are not alone. ❤️

Currently im looking into the tutanota situation. So far it seems less bad then I initially thought.

It seems like all encrypted parts of the system will be untouched. Ill be talking about it with the @Tutanota team to get their side of the story in as well, and publish a story on it on our blog so it will be cleared up.

Stay tuned, folks.

On delisting Startpage, an update from @blacklight447. https://blog.privacytools.io/delisting-startpage/

Om nom nom nom 🍪 🍪 🍪
#cookies

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There was recently a lot of news about DNS over HTTPS. Some people say it's bad for privacy because it centralizes the DNS requests on Google, Cloudflare and Quad9.

Time to change that and run your own DNS over HTTPS server. I spend some time today in writing, documenting and arranging a small container setup to allow you to do this:

https://git.shivering-isles.com/container-library/dns-over-https

#DNSoverHTTPS #DoH #Docker #privacy #infosec #selfHosting #DNS

We 🖤 this Tor poster with art by Molly Crabapple and words by John Leavitt.

Donate $10 or more through tomorrow (12 Nov), and you could be one of five people randomly selected to win it and have it shipped to you.

Donate now: https://torproject.org/donate/donate-tbi-md

The #privacytoolsio reddit community just hit 60.000 subscribers, lets party!

https://Reddit.com/r/privacytoolsio

Five years ago, we released Tutanota. With your help we've achieved a lot so far: https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/encrypted-email/
✅ Rebuilt email client to achieve great speed and design
✅ Published an F-Droid app
✅ Made Tutanota completely Google-free
✅ Published desktop clients
✅ Turned Tutanota into a green email service
✅ Added an encrypted search feature
✅ Added an encrypted calendar
Much more is to come in the future, stay tuned. 😃🎉

'A recent report from the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) found that Twitter removed nearly a million tweets and blocked around 100 accounts in India as part of their "country withheld" policy.'

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-50343054

If you don't know where to start with keeping your browsing #privacy, start here: Our guide to Firefox privacy https://blog.privacytools.io/firefox-privacy-an-introduction-to-safe/