Tungsteen is cheaper for the public money.

Well, or increase the weight for the harder necks to fullfit the needed kinetic energy

In the past the solution was more direct

US want to ban TikTok, because it’s a Chinese company, it has nothing to do with privacy, while in the EU a service must fullfit the GDPR to be allowed to offer their service in the EU and DeepSeek, among others, don’t. This has a lot to do with the privacy rights in the EU, those which in the USA don’t exist, not with censorship. Privacy is a basic right in the EU and not even the Police can access sensible personal data or track your activity without an court order, less aprivate company for advertising reasons or for training their AIs. But yes, right wing politicians in Germany want to change this, but this isn’t so easy in a working Democracy where it need to be approved with a majorit in th Bundestag.

Exactm every company in the RU is forced by law to fullfit the minimum of the GDPR to be able to sell their product, the fines are high, even for Google, MS and META, Nusk even said taking X out of the EU (I would approve it).

There are differences which prove that GDPR is far from perfect, but lightyears better from what the US permits.

Eg. M$ US

vs M$ EU (Germany)

I’ve also concerns over closed source apps, but as said, the small proprietary part of Vivaldi’s UI is irrelevant, there is nothing shady in it, it is full auditable and can even be modded by the user (at own risk, logically)

FLOSS isn’t always synonymous of privacy, security and trust and proprietary soft also not always spyware and risky crap.Always is needed to read PP and TOS of the software you want use, it’s features, support, and compare it with others, independent if it is FOSS or not. Eg. In Windows since a lot of years, one of the best and most valued tools is IrfanView, free proprietary closed source, but nobody bother because of this, knowing that there is nothing shady or fishy in it, Photoshop is also full trustworth, but there are FOSS alternatives (Gimp, Krita) which in the case of IrfanView not really exist with similar features. Even used by Linux fans with Wine, (IrfanView is Windows only)

Falcon, well, not bad, but too basic for me. The Qt engine is a minimized Blink fork, also used by the Otter Browser (Qt5), same as Goanna respect of Gecko. Valid for users with an old PC or with few resources, who needs a small browser for basic tasks.

I’m from Spain, we also have problems with nazis, but not so as in Germany, but our left gov has a hard time with these hooligans.

With this, Vivaldi remains as the only usefull browser from Europe. Konqueror is usefull only for certain tech collectives.

List of alternatives

• Gecko browsers, nice and valid, but if you need a sync function, if you don’t have an own third party or selfhosted one, you need an account with Mozilla, which itself has turned in an advertising company and your account data is shared with Alphabet. They only exist because of the support from Google. Without sync, maybe Zen or Floorp.
• Blink (Chromium) browser Brave, but ads and some shady relations with crypto companies and supported by Facebook. Opera is as private as Chrome or EDGE itself, even less
• Otter Browser (Qt5), nice one, but with difficults to survive.
• SSuite Netsurf (WebView), nice and fast, also reasonable private, but apart the inclusion of the SSuite online Tools, not much possibility to customize (Windows only) The last 2 maybe usefull in old PC with few resources.

There are also some other marginal forks, but mostly without warranty to be further attended and updated. This is the current panorama, anybody to their like.

Not a problem in Vivaldi, you can install even pure scripts as extension, without the need of an Userscript Manager, like TamperMonkey or similar. Due to the great amount of features, most extension from the Chrome Store are anyway redundant.

Agree, it’s the problem with closed source, but also easy with FOSS with bad maintenance, even more, because also the hacker can see the source code, without the need to desensamble it. In Vivaldi some of the UI part (5%) is proprietary, but not really closed source in it’s sense of meaning, apart it has a continuous maintenance, with snapshot releases and frequent updates, a great community with the participation of the team and beta-testers. Very transparent all this, no space for fishy or shady things.

Vivaldi (a employee owned cooperative from Norway) was since years active against the shady practices of US companies and one of the promotors, along with the Consumer Organisation from Norway and some others, which caused the current EU GDPR law. Nowadays it’s needed to promoting European products and services to gain sovereignty from the US hegemony of big corporations. but sadly in browsers there are only three from Europe: Vivaldi (Norway), Mullvad (Sweden) and Konqueror (KDE, Germany), the other one, UR (France) is dead since a lot of years.

Mullvad is maybe the most private browser after TOR, but apart of this not much more, Sync with Mozilla account which is a no-go for me. Konqueror, based on the KHTML engine (Grandfather of Blink and WebKit) is Linux desktop only, interesting features, but few extensions and somewhat limited. Well, end of the choices.

Even EDGE is a ungoogled Chromium (but containing M$ tracking APIs instead). Vivaldi IS a degoogled Chromium, a small part of the UI (by far the most advanced one of any other browser) is proprietary, but not really obfuscated, they show even in the support forum how the user can modding it, if for him isn’t enough what he can do in the most complete setting page ever, the only thing is, you can’t use it for other browser projects. It’s certainly not a privacy or security issue.

Chromium as is, is 100% FLOSS but because of this isn’t more private or secure as a proprietary soft, FLOSS isn’t automaticly synonym of privacy and security, a lot of people confuse it, it’s not the propósit of OpenSource, privacy and security of an soft depends only of the intentions of the developer or company, not if their soft is OSS or not. The user can audit the soft, which in any case is needed if he don’t want or be able to check millons of lines in the code which a complex soft like a browser engine has.

Works by the skin color, I suppose, more dark greater the possibility of an terrorist or worse, a communist. To keep America clean and hetero WASP

Yes, privacy is very important, but I’ve seen also a lot of tin foil hats arround here which don’t know really what is worth to protect and what only make browsing slower and more difficult. PEBCAK

2 great new TDM missions released

• The Last Night on Crookshank Line
• The Lieutnant 4 - A Reciprocal Gambit

But complaining that this year there is no tourism in the US

Repeating history in a creepy way. only changing names: Miller instead Goebbels, ICE instead of SS …

Amazing? Whatscrap? I think there are way better services out there for free as this Zuckerbot trash.

Some people still laugh when I say that online Privacy is synonym of Security.

The OS is irrelevant, are the apps which track you

Hardware companies need money. Yes, Doom need at least 16GB Ram for running the game in 1024x768 pxs, as said windowed and ILL for sure need more when the release it. It’s programmed onsolence, while current PC can survive almost 15 years or more, they try it with the soft to make these obsolete. Apart of the prices for these games, DOOM>€100 and ILL for sure isn’t cheaper. OK. the graphics are stunning, but this don’t make a game better than others, these games anyway, apart of the graphics, offers normally an gameplay pretty lineal.

My favoritefirst person game since almost 10 years is The Dark Mod, nice graphics, not worse as in commercial games, intelligent gameplay, it don’t need an NASA computer to run it, almost any cheap Laptop is enough, works on Windows, Linux and Mac and is 100%free. 170 community made missions, more released every few month, you can download and add these in the same game menu.

Use a normal cam, go pro or something like this, at home you can upload it to the web somewhat later, or also pass it to an journalist which for sure is also there (not precisely to one of the FOX). Best to one of another country which also cover the march.

Don’t use a smartphone, they are spyware by definition, more nowadays in the US. It’s never good to have sensitive data in your phone, Google, Apple and also your ISP share data with the gov in days like these.

Whatscrap, Instaspam, Messenger, MetaAI…

In France 1789 they did not have so many care to solve a problem.

They also for sure get revenue from the hardware companies, seeing recent game releases like Doom -The Dark Ages or ILL, where you need a GPU with at least 32 GB to run it with more than 20 FPS in standart resolution, while you grill bacon on the power supply

You have free games always for years if you like these, without the need of fake names and data, often even without the need of accounts, controlled by companies with desktop clients and other crap which rest a lot of privacy. Free games don’t need all this, less paid games, you install it and it’s yours forever, all other is an abuse of big corporations which make money with your data.

I’ve an Steam account, but forced, because a lot of years ago I bought in a store an CD with Portal, but to run it, it was mandatory an Steam account FOR AN LOCAL SINGLEPLAYER GAME WHICH I BOUGHT PHYSICALLY IN A STORE, WTF.

The problem with EPIC games is, that you need an account with your full name and data, even for an free game, not needed in Steam or GOG, where it is enough with nick and mail, only the need for more if you want to buy a game. Searching free games, only Steam and Itch.io are full of these.

That a page knows technical details of my system and in which I live country (if I do not use a VPN), I give a fuck, why this only serves to correctly show the content, eventually in my language and allow the download of possible compatible apps.

Fingerprints are a very broad issue and are not necessarily related to privacy, blocking or counterfeiting all is possible, but in many cases counterproductive, it must be done specifically only in those that involve private and personal data, everything else is to put a tin foil hat.

To protect the privacy there are needed way more measures, avoiding trackers, Pixel tracking (Meta), keyloggers (Towerdata, Imgur, M$ US and some others), avoiding search engines which logs the activity (Google, Bing…), recognize dark pattern, using encrypted mailservices, best with disposable alias, harden the SO with Portmaster, Pi-ole or similar…apart of Common sense-

Browsers, which are not directly from Big Corporations which itself log user actividad (Chrome, EDGE, Opera…), are relative irrelevant in this game of user profiling, they are only depends on personal preferences and needs.

Privacy is a huge issue, but too often misunderstood with wrong measures, PEBCAK

It’s possible, I think that DNS4EU seems a improved version.

Maybe Q4OS, but if you a Gamer, which want to play the most recent games (logically in a Gaming PC), Linux sadly isn’t the best option, the most modern games are Windows only, the advantages of Linux are others. In this case the best option is to use Linux in dual boot with Windows. I hope that it change in the future.

For those which need to use Windows, here three mandatorio FOSS apps (the best IMHO)

• hellzerg Optimizer to eliminate bloat- and spyware
• WindHawk for those which don’t like this terrible childish Fisher Price UI of Windows 11
• Portmaster to monitor and if needed blocking unwanted traffic and telemetries (optional paid SPN service)

With these you can use Windows 11, showing the middlefinger to M$

Seems so, works fine for me. I’m currently using it for some backups. Maybe changing your DNS helps, I use Quad9, Cloudflare and Google DNS sometimes make connection problems. (1.1.1.1., 8.8.8.8.)

You can test it yourself

https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/

Than use Filen from Germany (10GB free)

https://app.filen.io/

Use File.Pizza, FOSS, P2P, without account

• https://github.com/kern/filepizza

Hosted instance

• https://file.pizza/

Using Cloudflair’s AI Labyrinth to fuck up AI crawlers

https://blog.cloudflare.com/ai-labyrinth/

Privacy finished with the first Smartphone

Good ol’ Nokia 3350 times

Smartphones are the biggest spyware. I prefer to lick my elbow before storing sensitive data in these devices or using it with banking or medical apps.

search the one which fits best your needs

https://alternativeto.net/software/spotify/?license=opensource

To simply liten to music, I use also often this one

https://www.internet-radio.com/ , more than 8000 dedicated stations for every genre 24/7, no account needed.

Vivaldi, sync ee2e with the desktop version.

Brave itself no, but it don’t avoid that FB do it.

https://www.gadgets360.com/internet/news/brave-browser-allows-facebook-twitter-trackers-despite-promising-privacy-1991663