A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.
Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
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- If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
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Something seems fucky. Check this out: https://www.metastem.su/
Blocked @ the DNS level for ‘Malicious Domains’.
What is your question about this?
The entry for .su is not kind, unless you are in to cybercrime and white supremacy.
And Putinism. It was, after all, the TLD for the Soviet Union.
What are the privacy concerns regarding Wikipedia?
Kiwix is cool too, but it is an Wikipedia app
I prefer WikiLess, tbh. Also, Metastem uses .su, which was the TLD for the Soviet Union.
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Entered “metastem” just to see if anything happened
Besides being a nice JavaScript tutorial project, what does it do?
Search is working fast, which is nice. Unfortunately it seems to focus on articles in my language without possibility to switch to English, so 1. someone might argue this narrows down who is using it, and 2. sometimes I need to search for an article in other language.
Also, from issues on github it seems that it can be a little buggy atm
At the same time, on wikipedia, ublock sees only wikipedia and wikimedia domains. And the page even doesn’t need to ask about cookies. I don’t think wiki has a problem with privacy, per se. Of course in countries with stupid governments this might be a good idea
Why though?
If you want any more privacy, just download Wikipedia Maxi (EN) package from kiwix.org (a bit over 100GB) and self-host a kiwix server.
Why?
Big wiki is coming for you
Jk, I’m probably just as out of the loop as you. But maybe it’s OP that out of the loop.
I thought wiki was one of the good-ish guys.
Wikipedia itself is pretty great, the company and its marketing behind it, not so much.
https://www.dailydot.com/debug/wikipedia-endownemnt-fundraising/