Depends on whether piracy is less of an ethical issue than supporting a sexist transphobe.
The corporate overlords are inherently right-wing, which is why they fund, build, and embrace those platforms. There’s no revolt in joining them.
As far as I know, Startpage uses Bing, not Google now. The same is true for Ecosia.
Its Russian founder recently praised Musk in an interview for Tucker Carlson.
Pigs are cute. He isn’t.
Is there no Google Sheets alternative that would allow to display it without having to download?
Also, there’s not a lot of value in placing it on GitHub if you can’t even preview the changes of a submitted pull request.
Worse than merely being homophobic, as he financially supported politicians and causes that worked to prevent equal rights.
This has been known for years and it’s not different from the behavior of EAC, whether it’s good or bad.
So what’s the benefit of this over blending in each time?
We can only speculate. Many have used those without issues for years.
I didn’t say they always do it. I said they can, and they do sometimes. Happened to a close friend of mine after she logged in via Ripcord, though it may be unrelated.
Discord can outright block you from using it if it decides to ask to connect a phone number post-registration.
Not at all. He literally invested in keeping same-sex marriage outlawed, so to him it’s clearly important to be able to control people’s private lives.
Now try saying that at https://lemmy.one/c/privacyguides
Chromium is a Google product and it heavily depends on it.
Russia is already actively blocking VPNs both by restricting access to the servers and by blocking the UDP ports used by the VPNs. There is no solution except to choose the ports that are untouched yet or by using a VPS as a proxy. Going the TCP route cripples the maximum speed, so the ban is effective in forcing Russians to give up and connect directly.
PIA removed their Russian servers for this very reason.
We know WhatsApp uses the Signal protocol for encryption, but it also collects a lot of metadata. Arguably still better than Telegram that collects everything. Its secret chats may be e2ee but nobody uses them even for discussing sensitive matters, and they don’t work on the Desktop.