Personally, most stuff is in cloud storage. For local stuff I use syncthing.
But for the average person, I’d expect using iCloud, Google Drive, Onedrive, or Dropbox and then creating a shareable link for the other person.
I also can’t remember the last time I used a USB drive for anything other than installing an OS.
I think it depends why you want to bypass cloudflare, but realistically I don’t think you’re gonna be able to access those sites without going through cloudflare.
If you want to avoid accidentally stumbling into cloudflare, you could probably block their IP ranges. But of course that means you can’t access any cloudflare sites.
I stream from ethical services for some movies
What are these ethical movie streaming sources?
Is there an easy way to blur/censor my house without giving up my soul?
Have you tried this process? https://mashable.com/article/how-to-blur-your-house-on-google-street-view
I was also wondering, best I can find is from this reddit comment:
Koontz was never on King’s level as a writer, so King would never have been threatened by him.
Dean Koontz comes up a lot with King fans because they wrote similar stuff at one point. Dean Koontz went through many phases, and during one, he wrote a bunch of government conspiracy stuff — I strongly recommend The House of Thunder — which was similar to what King did with Firestarter and a couple others. So at that time, in the 1980s, they were doing the same thing. Since then, however, both authors took separate paths.
For one, Aegis is more well known. Aegis has 6k+ stars where FreeOTP+ has about 500. This doesn’t mean it’s better, just that people are more likely to recommend it.
Aegis also has more features, and can import from many different authenticator apps (though as many don’t allow exports, this may require technical knowledge to get the database and feed it in). If you have root then Aegis can pull directly from the other apps.
Aegis claims they are better than FreeOTP because the encrypt passwords at rest.
One big difference is FreeOTP+ lets you not have to enter a pin/password to see the codes while Aegis you need to enter a pin, password, or biometric to see your codes.
I had assumed because Aegis had an option to import from Google Authenticator that this would mean you could export in bulk. Bad assumption to make, it sounds like you can do it if you have a rooted phone but Authenticator doesn’t make it easy. I did find this that shows a method to do a handful at once: https://blog.jay2k1.com/2021/11/17/how-to-bulk-migrate-from-google-authenticator-to-aegis/
Aegis is a free open source TOTP 2FA app like Google Authenticator, and available on both F-Droid and Google Play. You should be able to export from Google Authenticator and import into Aegis.
Edit: I had assumed because Aegis had an option to import from Google Authenticator that this would mean you could export in bulk. Bad assumption to make, it sounds like you can do it if you have a rooted phone but Authenticator doesn’t make it easy. I did find this that shows a method to do a handful at once: https://blog.jay2k1.com/2021/11/17/how-to-bulk-migrate-from-google-authenticator-to-aegis/
I normally use the lastpass username generator, though fair warning, they will try to sell you lastpass.
This is not my experience. For the sites I frequent, though Firefox is generally not listed as a supported browser anymore, the sites work fine. That includes banking and any random shopping cart site. That’s probably because in my country there are common payment portals, and for you the common payment portals are probably different.
One site I have trouble with is one for health insurance, but a user agent spoofed to look like Chrome makes the site work fine (I hate so much that they do this, and have complained but I’m just one customer).
I know google sites (especially Google search) are a much more polished experience on Chrome, but I haven’t had an unusable experience on Firefox, I don’t notice a problem.
I think I missed that that isn’t your point. You’re saying google streamlines things for people on Chromium to make it a nicer experience, making it harder to switch away. And I think you’re right about that.
It’s not necessary targeted like that. Remember Chrome sends a lot of information about the user, allowing them to more easily gauge if it’s a bot. Firefox hides a lot of information, blocks a lot of third party scripts by default, and even sends fake information for some things. For all intents and purposes, Firefox looks much more like a bot than Chrome.
With that said, I use Firefox exclusively and don’t have anywhere near as many issues as you seem to.
Kardashians?