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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Spotify shouldn't be on this list... They exploit artists and platform joe rogans horseshit for profit

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

And i think they donated money to Trump also.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Qobuz is great though, they also provide lossless music which Spotify still don’t.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

New version still misspells it "Mastadon" haha

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Master Don.

[–] jerkface 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Why Waterfox over LibreWolf? I have only used LibreWolf, which is my 99%-of-the-time browser, and I am curious.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Why not use something like Matrix (Element) as a messenger alternative?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I found it difficult to transfer contacts there compared to signal, but you're right, it's better.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Again, add Matrix or xmpp instead of just Signal & Disroot as well in the email section

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

These charts are pretty bad put a little more effort in

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I would recommend deezer over Spotify. Spotify enables Rogan and all his bullshit

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

Qobuz! It pays artists the best out of any streaming service appartenly

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

How is deezer these days? Last time I used it is many years ago.

edit: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Access_Industries Access Industries owns Deezer. They invest in the US and Israel and have donated millions to republicans in the past.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Honest question, is Switzerland a part of the EU now, or do they just get a pass for being surrounded?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

@RvTV95XBeo @SrMono No, but what is your gripe? Located in Europe. Spend most of their money in Europe and have the same general mentality. Strongly focused on privacy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

They are not an official member, but being surrounded by EU countries lead to them being included in a lot of treaties and such.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oftentimes they are considered friendly.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

That is offtopic 😂

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Orion is not a paid browser. Kagi, however, is a paid search engine, and Orion was made by the Kagi team. The browser is completely free and is in all Apple OSs (coming to Linux soon) and gathers absolutely no data. And the browser comes with no search engine chosen by default so it isn’t really an ad for Kagi.

I personally think it’s amazing especially how you can have both Firefox and Chrome extensions on it. Its only issue is it being proprietary.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Orion was really well made. It is still beta, but when it is more stable, I'll give it a second go! 100% recommended.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Both Tuta and Proton have a free tier for their email. Also, I think Infomaniak's kmail might be an even better replacement for the typical email/cloud providers than the aforementioned, for normies at least.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

After switching your search engine, hop into your European time-machine and go back to February to continue this guide.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Why does nobody ever remember about the Vivaldi browser?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

It's also chromium based. But other than that it's european and a pretty cool browser!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

What makes Vivaldi better than other Chromium-based browsers in terms of privacy and such?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Well, certainly not nobody, I hear it mentioned quite often on the internet! Just make sure to keep talking about it, if you want it to get more popular :D

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (3 children)

can anybody explain why people hate on Waterfox? I'm using it for over a year now and it's been great so far!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I think it's about none of Firefox forks being remotely capable of evolving on their own. So any large scale push to leave Firefox for any of these forks might only hurt Firefox which would in turn hurt its forks.

My insignificant opinion on the matter is that it's great to have different flavors of Firefox that might be better suited for you, but it doesn't appear to lead to a solution to the underlying issue.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

why people hate on Waterfox?

it used to be owned by an ad company, so I guess some people just don't want to put their trust back in yet

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I would be more interested in why they didn't go with LibreWolf?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

i tried librewolf about 2 years ago but it didn't quite work for me since it's high security settings were breaking the sites i visited :O

[–] jerkface 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Breaks almost every site on the settings I've given it, by my design -- at least, until I grant the site some permissions. You don't get to run code on my browser unless I SAY you can!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

In what way is mastodon privacy focused?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Well, the flyer originated here: https://old.reddit.com/r/BuyFromEU/comments/1jcr8ks/here_is_the_new_and_improved_guide_to_help_you/ but mastodon stands out as it has no commercial driver. There aren't any ad-services profiling you, so that is a big win for your privacy.

[–] jerkface 1 points 1 day ago

There aren’t any ad-services profiling you

There's no way to know that.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Is Waterfox the most recommended Firefox alternative nowadays after the recent Firefox controversy?

Also not sure I would call Proton privacy focused. I still use it, but they have been rating out an environment activist to French authorities before.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (8 children)

Is it possible to set up a signal server, or is it not completely FOSS?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

@Valmond @SrMono

If you want to selfhost your own messenger, you can with Matrix or XMPP. XMPP, for ex, is the protocol used by WhatsApp and Signal.

[–] jerkface 1 points 1 day ago

XMPP, for ex, is the protocol used by WhatsApp and Signal.

Whaaaa, really??

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