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Despite a persistent legend, the Chromium web browser is strongly tight with many Google services, and thus is *NOT* ungoogled.
In /e/OS we are using a fully ungoogled Chromium web browser.
On Linux, Mac and Windows, you can use "ungoogled- chromium":
github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-c

"I think what we'll see very clearly in hindsight is that when we published our content on other people's servers, it always went bad. #Instagram's algo made us sad. #YouTube's algo made us mad. #Twitter's algo mad us sad AND mad. #Google Photos algo, it turned out, made us easily tracked and controlled by totalitarian governments. Oops!" Must-read for #selfhosting and #decentralization to fix the internet -> pauljmiller.com/posts/how-to-f

@wbtd @yogthos No worries, semantics here is complicated but seems like we're on the same page!

@wbtd @yogthos > Poltically they are both, theoretically, democracies; but Sweden is socialist and the USA is capitalist

Let's keep to well established naming conventions here. Sweden is SOCIAL DEMOCRACY (not "socialist democracy" or "democratic socialism"), which is a term established well in 19th century by Liebknecht, Lasalle, Bebel and strongly opposed to Marxian communism/socialism.

@wbtd @yogthos And I definitely don't defend the USA social-economic model. I like and support the Scandinavian model.

I was however born in a country that described itself as "socialist on the way to communism" and did enforce many of the Marxian economy instruments - central planning, pricing based on LV theory, lack of privately owned means of production.

This was truly "socialist economy". Swedish economy was and is light years far from it.

@wbtd @yogthos Calling Sweden "socialist" is a big stretch and presently predominantly found... in US right-wing semantics.

This confusions is partially caused by the semantic confusion surrounding the word "socialism" which as of today has no single clear definition and is even more vague than "communism".

Sweden does have free market economy and private property, and is ranked as one of the most competitive economies in the world in World Economic Forum ranking.

@yogthos If both USA and Sweden have capitalist economy, and in one the accumulation happens, and in the other it doesn't, then the capitalist economy isn't the root cause. Let's just apply some scientific thinking here.

@nikolal @blacklight447 downloading data changes it for me as I don't lose 10 years of content :)

@blacklight447 yeah, for 30 days; then I can also legally retract permission to process personal data which per should force them to delete it even if they didn't before

Just downloaded ~500MB of my data and deleted the account permanently. Google's next :)

We all know that Google (with Chrome-ium) has at least close to 90% of the browser marketshare on the internet.

Which is your primary browser on your computer?

Remember that Brave, Opera and Edge are Chromium derivatives. I consider Safari to be separate since it's Webkit and not Blink.

Retoot this to get more votes in.

#poll #browser #firefox #chromium

@sa0bse hey, but it's like saying LineageOS it's the same as Google Android. The changes introduced into Brave, Vivaldi etc *do* make difference for privacy

@theguardian@friendica.hubup.pro Surprisingly, Russia claims it's "not a side" in what it calls "a civil war in Ukraine" ;)

@estoricru@hackers.town or because you've burned or cut your pointing finger and was left with a plaster or scar

I re-uploaded the "Unicode: The hero or villain? Input Validation of free-form Unicode text in Web Applications " scitech.video/videos/watch/38b as the previous one hiccuped, perhaps due to broken MP4

#GMail is harmful to e-mail ecosystem; its antispam blocking policy matches too many valid messages as spam.

It blocked LastPass email leak warning email, because it contained "a link" to a leaked site.

It blocked an e-mail from goverment agency addressed directly to me.

It discriminates all non-gmail servers, and it's pretty much impossible to own a private SMTP server these days, because GMail will classify everything as spam.

It's not how e-mail should work.

Consider dropping GMail.

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