Under Ironfox settings, enable the install extensions option. It blocks installing them by default in order to decrease attack surface. You will be able after that.

Yeah, except that most people are lazy and will default to whatever is most convinient, even if it goes against their best interest. People use social media services that creates entire psychological profiles on them simple because they friends are on it.

If we go by the WEF, then certainly before 2030.

At least in Canada, friends at the bank I used to work in IT were briefed in 2024 that CBDCs were coming down the pipe at some point in the future.

I tend to turn off JavaScript for most sites and I found enabling and disabling it on this browser to be a pain. Has that changed?

Also, it is webview, so you cannot harden it unless you root and download a hardened webview.

I use Freetube on PC and some NewPipe fork AND Freetube on Android. The Android one has been breaking as of late. :-(

Maybe. They could just let it rot. Let it break over time. Thus pushing people onto the new site.

For those wondering, Mullvad is only good if you change nothing about the browser, if you do, then you will he easily fingerprinted. As the number of people who use Mullvad is already small as it is. You will br like a spotlight in the dark if you add other extensions.

Librewolf on PC, or Tor, if you want to go full on; And Ironfox on Android. Use LibRedirect as a search provider and if you use Searxing, it will rotate all your searches to different instances every time.

Local walk-in store, if possible?

Librewolf is better if you are going to use a few extensions. Mullvad like FlTor are meant to be used as is, out of the box.

What is your definition of Fascist, here?

It seems to get tossed around at everything, these days. Not a fan if the NSA either, nor the Patriot Act, either.

Yeah, so what if I want to hide a bunch of Jews in my attic?

They do perhaps know, Firefox did have about 27%+ of the market at one point and people outside of the USA are more likely to know about it. Nevertheless, FF is currently about 3.25% of the total browser base. That is still about 160+ - 200+ million users.

What kind of bullshit is this?

God, I dislike Google so much. Funny to remember that once their motto used to be, “Do no evil.” Ha, good times.

Unexpected Keyboard is excellent for Termux. Wished it had autocorrect, though.

Personally, I have gotten excellent traction from Heliboard. I would recommend it.

I have learned that the best game is simply not to play. You risk annoying the hell out of people. Let them get curious, maybe mention it but they have to come to you. Pushing it onto people who do not care is simply not worth it. You are wasting your time, this is real life. Some people will simply not want to care. It is their choice and sometimes that choice will not match yours.

The people I have so-called converted where people who actually were interest to know more. If you push it on people who are not interested then you risk being that annoying person who comes off as an activist or ideologue.

I never get that message, say on Freetube, and I also use a VPN. May I suggest you rotate to a smaller country’s server? Specifically one that is well outside the West and that also does not use English as their main or secondary language. I noticed English speaking servers are far, far more likely to get flagged.

I have suggested this to others with excellent results so far.

I have gotten that error when I check invidious on FF, but I am able to get by with uBlock on and just making sure JS is enabled. Never had that happen on Android clients.

On, I have and have used it. Thank you.

But as far as the host server that you hit is comcerned, whether you block the fonts via uBlock or do not fulfill the server request via Local CDN, they will still use it to profile you, because you tag yourself in the minority of users in the world that do not hit the Google font servers. And Google knows this.
Since even most adblock users still do not block fonts or other assets like this. Albeit I do as I use uBlock on Medium mode, including fonts. And I dropped using Local CND as to minimise my extensions footprint.

The main gain would be for the site’s aesthetics as you host some assets locally, but from a privacy perspective, you are damned if you do, and damned if you don’t. Albeit you are damned a little bit less if you do. LOL

Dang, apologies. Double checked. You are quite correct, my bad.

Freetube on Android/PC does have it, however. But it does have the many other options that a NewPipe derivative has.

Clipious is another one that does.

Fair. Time can also be a factor. Albeit you would agree that coupled to that there is also a sense of misconstrued set of priorities. Being fit is one of those things that there are no shortcuts for. Also, one had to pick and chose want is best and sometimes compromises must he done. Which I think it is a big issue who have been sold the lie that they can do and be whatever they want, which is for one not true. Also, there are only so many hours in a day, so clearly something had to give. Which in general to many it may he their health, whether they are aware of it or not.

There is also the fact that today’s society is not focused overly in quality of life but in profit and production. That is a grander issue that need to be address or we are just going to have unhealthier people who just die earlier.

From my own point of view, I have studies nutritional science and do not find it neither hard nor stressful to plan my diet. That is just me, bit I also took the time to learn. Again, time is once again the tricky one. Maybe I watch less TV, maybe I play less video games, or spend less time on my phone, but that time to take of my health has to come from somewhere. Again, we cannot do it all.

Yup, it does not end until we die. So, the best thing we can do is cherry pick what priorities matter the most to us and that we not happy but content.

Sorry to hear about the commute, commuting is one of the worst things in western culture and studies were done that showed that commuting was one of the most dreaded things adults do today.

In most of the USA healthy food is not a luxury. There are luxurious or expensive healthy foods, sure, but the main issues I see is a lack of nutritional science education and lack of personal control.

People will still buy"lite" food full of sugar because they are told they are low on fat. Or will eat stuff full of artificial sweeteners because they are told they are low on sugars. Despite the fact that we know that artificial sweeteners are bad for gut health. We know seed oils ate bad, bit you have literal magazines obfuscating this with BS stories where they will try to put lipstick on a pig and confuse less Academic readers with weird takes that may go over the years if people who have not studies the subject. It is insidious, if you ask me. It is hard to thinkk or see that money interests do not have a hand. I mean, changing things for the better would 100% affect their bottom line. So, why not lie or obfuscate until they absolutely cannot?

The reality is that eating healthy takes some work and personal accountability and people can also be lazy. Since corps go out of their way to lie to people, either fully or by omission. Just like most tech corps do.

Most legalese is not hard to understand. But people are too lazy, or ignorant, to bother or care. Anyone who is reasonable and took the time to read say Apple’s or Google’s ToS would 100% try to avoid using them as much as possible. Why? Because trying to care about your privacy is work and can be less convinient. Sometimes people want a shine device for ego points. So no common sense needed. And the acri9ns needed to minimize those corp’s surveillance takes a bit of work too.

The USA has a capitalistic, convenience problem that has been propagandised by Corps in order to give them the impression that why bother XYZ if we can make it easier and convinient for you, it will only cost your privacy. And since privacy can be at times an abstract concept to many it does not register as important or as serious a risk to lose it.

People who live in say, countries like the old Easter block are far more aware of the propaganda being thrown at people today, for example. The way the UK and Germany are are not that different in many ways as the CCP and the old soviet union. You are 100% correct with the bias for instant gratification.

It used to be called BraveNewPipe, yes. But the NewPipe folks want to trademark the name, so name got changed to BravePipe.

And you burn the PC after each use.

Also, by using RSS you skip all visual garbage and more tracking that you might have to exposed.

PS: I dislike Google Fonts. It is the most insidious way that Google can track people as they are used everywhere and in almost all sites and even by some FOSS applications.

I use Organic maps and if I “need” to use Gmaps, I use GWMaps, which is a privacy focused wrapper of the Google Maps site. Got it from Frdroid.

Same. I usually will change the VPN servers to non-English speaking countries. That usually helps.

I use Freetube on both PC and Android which has DeArrow. There are also a few forks of NewPipe that have it, BavePipe is one of them.

Joplin makes it a bit harder to leave. Also your notes end up with a shitty file naming convention. I did wanted to like it, though.

I want to have my notes to be raw txt or MD.

They do have a a plan for corporations, for other end users the main path is self-hosting. Which is not hard, alternatively, there are known provides that you can sign up with, however. Most of them are paid services. In general, in one way or another have to pay for things, nothing is 100% free.

However there may be some free services but they are likely very limited or there is the issue of whether you want to trust them with your data.

Or, the most obvious, less moving parts answer is that they are corrupt and only will push policies and fear mongering that will keep them in power. Irrelevant if they are Left or Right.

You are being too kind if you think they are not 100% aware of what they are doing. They do not need a lesson in Civics, they need to be replaced.

For all the talk that Obama did, great job of showing that he is a sell out by extending the Patriot Act and all the spying that it allows.

Hmmm, fair point.

I am reminded of the Monroe Doctrine and say, Operation Condor.

Touché, friend. Have an upvote.

Uh… At the fear of sounding pedantic, do not go into a country illegally.

If I went to France or Guatemala, I would not be surprised if I suddenly get deported. In order for Laws to mean something, they have to be upheld.

Or are we supposed to pick and chose Laws, but only when convenient? If incorrect, can I rob you or get your Visa or MasterCard numbers? Promise not to use them. ;-)

NASA+ is amazing.

If you check, NFB, check 9ut The Cat Came Back, and The Log Driver. Cheers.

So, these are centre-Left politicians, correct? So, why are they doing this? For our 'safety? ’ Right…

True, it is simple to use but no one who is a normie will ever use it. I have offered to help but if it is not in their workflow they won’t even try if they do not care about privacy. Which few do.

If you are from a Western country, use smaller, non-English speaking countries.

It works via my VPN. Maybe switch it to a different location?

Fair take.