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[–] fusiono@feddit.uk 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

New version still misspells it "Mastadon" haha

[–] SrMono@feddit.org 1 points 3 hours ago

Master Don.

[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 14 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] HorseFD@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

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

[–] nuko147@lemm.ee 2 points 5 hours ago

And i think they donated money to Trump also.

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

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

[–] krolden@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

These charts are pretty bad put a little more effort in

[–] EuroCentrist@feddit.org 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] lookupgeorgism@lemm.ee 1 points 4 hours ago

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

[–] MITM0@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago

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

[–] RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

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

[–] rraggl@mastodon.nl 4 points 7 hours 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.

[–] MaggiWuerze@feddit.org 1 points 8 hours 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.

[–] SrMono@feddit.org 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Oftentimes they are considered friendly.

[–] krolden@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)
[–] SrMono@feddit.org 1 points 9 minutes ago

That is offtopic 😂

[–] jagermo@feddit.org 29 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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

[–] Kualdir@feddit.nl 6 points 1 day ago

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

[–] Zoldyck@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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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[–] skeptomatic@lemmy.ca 0 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Where's the part suggesting getting off social media altogether, and stocking up on guns, ammo, and cans of beans?

[–] rraggl@mastodon.nl 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

@skeptomatic @SrMono You find that aplenty over on Matrix...

[–] SrMono@feddit.org 3 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

And in other communities. Also you misspelled beer.

[–] rraggl@mastodon.nl 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)
[–] SrMono@feddit.org 2 points 7 hours ago

Mispelled it myself and corrected it 🍺 Coffee wouöd have been wiser.

[–] kambusha@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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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[–] Linearity@infosec.pub 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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.

[–] SrMono@feddit.org 4 points 1 day 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.

[–] RedPandaRaider@feddit.org 2 points 21 hours 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.

[–] gon@lemm.ee 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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.

[–] Sorse@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

In what way is mastodon privacy focused?

[–] SrMono@feddit.org 4 points 1 day 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@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 hours ago

There aren’t any ad-services profiling you

There's no way to know that.

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[–] hOrni@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Why does nobody ever remember about the Vivaldi browser?

[–] rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 3 points 22 hours ago

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

[–] simbico@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 day ago

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

[–] gon@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day 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

[–] CreativeCider@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] NewDay@feddit.org 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Unfortunately, Threema will never be a real alternative because of the price tag. There are just too many good alternative that are for free. For example, Element is European, privacy-wise good and for free.

[–] MITM0@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)
[–] NewDay@feddit.org 2 points 5 hours ago

That is a nice protocol. If you are interested in messenger then translate this page via an extension https://www.kuketz-blog.de/die-grosse-messenger-uebersicht-kompakt-kritisch-direkt/

[–] AEGIS2317@feddit.org 6 points 1 day 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!

[–] RandomPrivacyGuy@lemm.ee 4 points 23 hours 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

[–] Bogasse@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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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[–] SrMono@feddit.org 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] AEGIS2317@feddit.org 3 points 1 day 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@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours 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!

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