resist1984 @resist1984@social.privacytools.io

@TheDoctor @Wetrix @cjleads you have no choice but to agree with the facts - unless you have counter facts. OWS #Signal subjects users to a variety of surveillance capitalist mechanisms by forcing phone number registration & pushing Google Playstore (while hiding & discouraging apk downloads).. pushing #CloudFlare.. financing #Amazon.. working for #Facebook.

@TheDoctor @cjleads @Wetrix i've not heard of Signal directly leaking data, but leaks are incidental in all the dodgy surveillance capitalists Signal entails. More details here: https://github.com/privacytoolsIO/privacytools.io/issues/779

@hund It seems in Europe landline broadband ISPs block egress port 25, while mobile ISPs tend not to. So you may have more freedom to run a mail server w/option 2.

@kensanata the lulu.com link is a bad one to plug because it's a #CloudFlare site. Visiting the #InternetArchive of it is also useless in this case because it's just a blank page: https://web.archive.org/web/20200814201044/https://www.lulu.com/en/gb/shop/francisco-ballesteros/introduction-to-os-abstractions-using-plan-9-from-bell-labs/ebook/product-1dnwpknd.html

@phryk ..even when they lose 1/3rd of bug reports, they still cling to MS #Github: https://infosec.exchange/@bojkotiMalbona/104637098084869887

@phryk and note that it's a struggle just to get projects to #deleteGithub whose sole purpose is social responsibility: https://github.com/humanetech-community/awesome-humane-tech/issues/33

@kev @markosaric @tobtobxx The best search engine is https://crimeflare.wodferndripvpe6ib4uz4rtngrnzichnirgn7t5x64gxcyroopbhsuqd.onion/ b/c it doesn't feed #MACFANG & it filters out #CloudFlare results. If you must use clearnet, searx.disroot.org is worth a look.

@tobtobxx @markosaric @kev #DigitalOcean is a bit of a monster. It's a corporate tech giant and it's also #Tor-hostile. I certainly avoid #MACFANG but if I had to choose one of them Google is the lesser of those evils in terms of ethics. MS and #Amazon have reckless disregard for human rights.

@kev @markosaric @tobtobxx Google's index is bigger than Bing's. If by "diversity" you mean to avoid the filter bubble, startpage.com will give #Google results w/out the filter bubble. Even more diverse is to use a searx instance that sources from google, bing, and other crawlers like mojeek, metager, & gigablast.

@tobtobxx @markosaric @kev if you don't care about privacy or ethics, just diversity, DDG is still not the answer b/c it's giving you Bing results, and Bing is the same index used by most 3rd parties (DDG, ecosia, qwant, swisscows, everyclick).

@kev @markosaric It's not "advice". It's cited facts. Techrights mirrored a Lemmy post for exposure: https://dev.lemmy.ml/post/31321 Lemmy has SSL, but it's bizarre to judge the authenticity of cited facts based on whether a site has SSL (if you really believe techrights.org is MitM'd to smear DDG, you can confirm by asking @schestowitz). Check the facts by checking the sources.

@jmizzle207 @kev you should completely ditch DDG. If you're using DDG as an alternative to Google, it's important to realize that DDG feeds Microsoft by proxy, and #Microsoft is far more evil than #Google. If you're using DDG for privacy, that's a non-starter too, as DDG has been caught violating its own privacy policy.

@kev @markosaric #DDG has always been falsely positioned. Their whole game is sell the perception of privacy. http://techrights.org/2020/07/02/ddg-privacy-abuser-in-disguise

@kev @Matter yikes. Advertising is bad. Advertising is an arms race. People are forced to advertize even if they don't want to counter their competitor's ads. Ads also manipulate the market to introduce bias that distorts perceptions in order to bend consumer choices away from quality & price.

@jonarvid #DuckDuckGo has been caught twice violating their #privacy policy - and that's more creepy than being a privacy offender with a forthcoming privacy policy. http://techrights.org/2020/07/02/ddg-privacy-abuser-in-disguise

@schestowitz #Kodi has several ethical problems. Apart from using #Github, Kodi.tv is a #CloudFlare site, littered with #Twitter, #Facebook, #Google, etc. And they ask for donations using #Paypal, #Patreon, & #Liberapay.

@angristan actually i won't boost that b/c it's a CF link. Should have used this link: https://web.archive.org/web/20200716014743/https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-network-expands-to-more-than-100-countries/

@angristan fuck me