Silence hasn’t been updated in four years. I’m not sure I trust it to patch any future vulnerabilities.

The rest seems like a non-issue though. Plenty of open source apps to put in by default.

It’s entirely the point. People’s data is monetized.

I’ll pay money to companies that provide good services.

As for google, why should I pay them for something when they’re already stealing out of my pocket?

It sure as hell isn’t free. Look into trackers and data brokers. Both Facebook and Google profit off you even it you don’t have any accounts.

Sweet, thank you. I’ll be checking that out.

Can you send me a link to that Nebula vid? It might provide me with some perspective.

These are exceptional. Midjourney AI?

Alphabet’s profit increased 36 percent, to $20.64 billion, in the fourth quarter.

I think they’re doing alright for themselves. There’s no way this profit all comes from YouTube.

If YouTube premium came with privacy guarantees I would definitely pay for it. Sadly with YouTube premium you’re being taken advantage for both your data and your money. If they picked one over the other I would definitely pick the paid one over them selling my personal data.

'Bout time everything burned down. A fresh start could be good.

That ending had me both gagging and laughing

To be fair, the amount of disparaging words made after the term “Cis, white, male” is extremely high.

I don’t know about your DNS provider farming queries through your search engine (I guess by fetching the content of the visible results?) but I do know that if you have search suggestions on then everything you type is sent to your search engine and recorded before you even hit enter.

Supposedly DuckDuckGo doesn’t retain this data but I’ve been out of the loop so that may have changed at some point. I’ve heard conflicting stories about their privacy and I haven’t dug into it yet.

For DNS providers though you can check out these: https://www.privacyguides.org/en/dns/#recommended-providers

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The U.N. tried to ban loli art?

I think Seal might work for you.

For Android you guys should check out Seal

I don’t think it goes as elaborate as the above post, but it works on every site yt-dlp does.

Ah, that’s smart

Why 2 piholes?

That’s perfect. Ty.