Never give up,
each eye you poke out is one less they can use for data collection.

It’s a slow process and they’ll grow more eyes,
but the less they have on you,
the more private you’ll be.

Or Tubular,
a fork of NewPipe,
with SponsorBlock + ReturnYouTubeDislike support

I want HP to shove it where the sun don’t shine :)

First time I hear about it.

Briefly looked into it,
and it does appear to be a good/valid private chat client :)

I still and always will like the core principles of crypto.

Which is to take away the power of centralized abusing parties
(who slowly steal the value of our current FIAT currencies through deficit spending + fractional banking)
and put them back in the hands of the people through a fair de-centralized system
(which should not allow for deficit spending, nor fractional banking, and respects your privacy on top)

However I (and most people are) disgusted by the shit-show humanity has turned crypto into,
nearly the whole scene is made up of shit-coins, ponzi tokens, NFTs, P2E crap etc…

Monero is one of the few projects that actually still keeps the core principles in a high saddle.
Sadly people tend to forget about the core principles,
and instead get lured into and burned by get-rich-quick scams…

I never heard about Threema before,
quickly glanced at it’s Github repo,
but I think I prefer Matrix/Element over it.

Threema seems to largely rely om GMS (Google Messaging Service),
meaning that most messages will go through Google’s servers,
albeit end-to-end encrypted for now,
I would not be suprised if Google would participate in “Harvest now, Decrypt later”.

Wasn’t aware of that, would love to hear about it if someome could shine some more light onto the matter :)

If that’s the case, I have to stop using/recommending Session

Sign-up still requires a phone number… -.-"

Checkout Matrix/Element or Session,
there you can actually enjoy privacy by signing-up without a phone number/email:

• https://matrix.org/
• https://element.io/
• ~~https://getsession.org/~~

Edit: Due to Session’s company residing in Australia,
which appareantly has bad privacy laws,
i don’t feel comfortable with recommending it anymore

Sign-up still requires a phone number… -.-"

Checkout Matrix/Element or Session,
there you can actually enjoy privacy by signing-up without a phone number/email:

• https://matrix.org/
• https://element.io/
• ~~https://getsession.org/~~

Edit: Due to Session’s company residing in Australia,
which appareantly has bad privacy laws,
i don’t feel comfortable with recommending it anymore

🤢🤮

I don’t trust CloudFlare with my data,
assume they will sell it since it’s a for-profit company.

Meanwhile Quad9 touts about not logging IPs and being GDPR compliant.

Nice try CloudFlare,
but I’m still picking Quad9 any day over you:

https://www.quad9.net/

Edge, a.k.a. Chrome with extra Microsoft spyware on top.

You should introduce him to smth like LibreWolf instead :)

https://librewolf.net/

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SearXNG

To prevent getting rate-limited I use it through SearXNG instance randomizers:

• GimmeASearX - Self hosted
• SearX NeoCities - Publicly hosted

These enhance the privacy even further.

DDG is not recommended anymore.

I don’t expect that average users will become android/privacy experts.

I don’t even think of my own privacy being all that important.

However systematic privacy,
through laws that protect us all,
that’s what the average joe should be made aware off and stand up for.

Yes,

But the software on it has been completely re-done to enhance it’s privacy and functionality.

I’m running LineageOSforMicroG,
with Magisk/LSPosed,
to run things like AdAway/XPrivacyLua/Blocker.

Additionally I replace everything I can with FOSS from F-Droid,
and scan all apps from Aurora (Play Store) with ClassyShark3xodus, against well known trackers, to either look for better alternatives, or to block the spy-ware in them with Blocker.

Further, a premium no-log VPN, which has been vetted (servers confiscated in the past, though 0 logs retrieved), configured as always-on + block connections without.

Paying for spy-ware,
how dense do they think we are?!

Let Google rot :)

Oh I see.

Still thank you for teaching the next generation.

It’s under appreciated,
but oh so important work that you’re doing,
keep it up! :)

Shouldn’t you report that to the head of school?

He should be able to know in which grade that topic should have been teached.

And then slap the corresponding teacher on the wrist for not doing their job correctly?