The mentioned server side changes (e.g. A server move you mentioned but could also be server settings, provider settings, etc).
I guess that is the case. According to https://searx.space/ the searx.be server is in Austria but might use some proxy to talk to Google and similar to avoid quick blocking. The maintainer of searx.be also maintains yewtu.be and that one uses proxies (The proxy names can be seen when blocking auto play of videos in Tor browser).
Also getting results in Russian here since a few days. Usually it is either Swedish or Dutch. Never German.
Been using searx.be for a bit now and they had many results in Dutch and German, which can be expected for a site based in Belgium.
Belgium is in the domain name. You can check where the server is located :
Austria AT NETCUP-AS netcup GmbH, D
Though I’m using Tor with searx.be searching I do get results in Russian since a few days. Usually it is either Swedish or Dutch. Never German. I can imagine the searx.be maintainer is rotating IP addresses at the part which does the talking with Google and other search engines to prevent quick blocking of the instance. yewtu.be (same maintainer) does use proxies (that is visible when blocking auto-play of videos).
Now I’ve tried almost all of them in the Piped instances list (Several domain name for sale and server not found errors) and only the smnz.de one works for me. :( I am wondering whether a freshly installed self-hosted private Piped video instance will work fine.
The instances list is not up to date :
- List of instances : https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped/wiki/Instances But after trying maybe more than 10 of them I found one which manages to play a video :
https://piped.smnz.de/watch?v=bBhDWTZDH9c
There’s probably more working instances.
Plan B : I guess running your own Piped instance and not sharing it with a lot of people could be worth considering.
Personally I’m sticking to https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Yt-dlp#Faster_downloads for the video downloading I do.
Was about to post the great blog post from my bookmarks, but another commenter beat me to it (t y !). Here’s comments on that blog post on Lobsters and HN :
There’s more to it. The mono-culture is one thing, but rolling out the update to millions of computers on the same days sounds like a bad idea.
Fun fact in 2008, with nuclear submarines, the mono-culture was not that bad yet.
It’s interesting to note the UK went with a Windows XP variant and not Windows Vista, which is marketed as the more reliable OS. The USA never made the same calculations: The American Navy runs on Linux.
There’s a summary here with some Tor browser findings : https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/18097#note_2961761
Disable javascript, trying to get around fingerprinting with javascript enabled is an exercise in futility, and is especially risky with something as heavily monitored as tor.
I like disabling JS myself for some web browsing but this can make fingerprinting easier because most people do enable JS, and I’ve read that with JS disabled certain things still can be detected through CSS files.
This looks like old news to me. Years ago I’ve read that three letter agencies can access phones without getting the access code or bio-metrics from the phone owner.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grayshift
- And it was in the news recently because of the Trump shooter : https://www.theverge.com/24199357/fbi-trump-rally-shooter-phone-thomas-matthew-crooks-quantico-mdtf
- https://signal.org/blog/cellebrite-vulnerabilities (2021, crazy story)
Here’s a take by a Mozilla employee :
- Mozilla has been ad funded since 2005
- Browser development is not sustainable by just donations
- Transparency is most important
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I’ll place my bet on this one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bottom_(TV_series)
I did lots of reading about this and am still wondering why someone would want to opt for catch-all domains over aliases. Catch-alls seem highly susceptible to spam and while I haven’t actually done any email aliasing yet,
I’m using catch-all since years and no spammer has ever made up a new email alias to spam me.
it doesn’t seem to take much effort to make a new alias if you have a plan with unlimited aliases.
That depends. The moment you are in a shop without your phone/email and they really want an email address you can simply write down their_company_name@your_email_domain_name for them without having to compromise anything.
GMaps WV as mentioned in another comment : https://f-droid.org/packages/us.spotco.maps/ Last updated, June 2024.
This is a restricted WebView wrapper for accessing the web version of Google Maps. Intended for use when OpenStreetMap isn’t enough.
Twitter had a TOR service last time I checked, I haven’t seen a single Mastodon instance available as TOR service.
TIL Mastodon can be run as tor service : https://docs.joinmastodon.org/admin/optional/tor/
I think you need to take a break and get some perspective.
Besides, the Twitter link was already posted by the OP, why would it need to be posted again?
Posting exTwitter links without a screenshot in a privacy community feels like a kind of oxymoron to me, especially after exTwitter made API changes and what not which made third party apps and software like Nitter kind of useless.
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Waterfox has had some bad press. I don’t remember details but here’s something to read :
- https://www.ghacks.net/2023/07/04/waterfox-browser-cuts-ties-with-system-1-to-celebrate-independence/ (2023)
- https://www.waterfox.net/blog/waterfox-has-joined-system1/ (2020)
I prefer to stick to the no nonsense LibreWolf and when some things don’t work fall back to Firefox :
You can look at something like https://www.deviceinfo.me/ to see what just a browser can identify.
At the Keys Pressed (Live) it can see my arrow up and arrow down key presses 😱
Is this because I am using a free tier VPN? so it’s not functioning properly etc…
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Does Proton not have a page to check your IP address and check for DNS leaks (Mullvad does : https://mullvad.net/en -> Check for leaks) ?
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Did you look up your IP address by other means ?
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On the desktop with Linux you can check the content of
/etc/resolv.confandip a(Your local IP) andip r(Gateway address).
Else google fixed my location based on my previous location history? I used my google applications without VPN for many years, I am just learning & following privacy tips recently.
Are the sessions from your last login ? With some applications (Dunno about Google) you can delete older sessions from the overview.
lol i thought you EU boys’ government was so amazing and cared so much about privacy! lol!
You will not hear me bragging or applauding about EU except that the GDPR did bring about some positive changes. And if you ask me I wonder what is happening with all the millions of money from the fines that EU gave to Big Tech companies. EU basically claims that they have no money to keep a Fediverse server running. Puzzling.
I think most FOSS zealots simply despise capitalism in general, they want everyone else to be poor like them. Kinda like socialism.
One well known exception to your comment is Linus Torvalds. He didn’t mind moving to the USA to make some good money after being a student who could afford a whopping 386! And unlike some people believe, the GPL does not restrict a programmer to make money.
Many people probably won’t be bothered by these things, but I am. I don’t want to pay full price for something that I don’t truly own. I miss the familiarity. I miss the reliability. I miss feeling like it’s mine. Dependable. Trustworthy.
Picking my old guitar up again has never looked so appealing. I think I want to go back to investing more time, money, and energy into things that aren’t connected to the internet
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Yup.
Buy any domain name, doesn’t matter what.
Suggested to OP and others that self-hosting email is easy and reliable is a bad idea in my opinion.
Instead I suggest the OP to let go of the “free” requirement. There are at least three email providers that provide email for 1 Euro a month including a few email aliases. Another option is to find a web hosting company that also provides email with web hosting. For example Gandi used to do that though I read they made some changes with their hosting options.
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Thing is that searx.be has been remarkably good for my use case since a long time. With other instances YMMV.