Mullvad provides a DNS service that can be used with or without their VPN for free: https://mullvad.net/en/help/dns-over-https-and-dns-over-tls
personally, I stick with NextDNS despite using their VPN.
if I had to guess, it’s probably somehow related to how everyone uses Google’s standard for public transport feed. I just use a separate transit app that covers bajillion of different cities in my country and lets me buy tickets without using Google Pay.
Organic Maps is testing public transport navigation, by the way, but it’s not available in released builds yet: https://github.com/organicmaps/organicmaps/blob/master/docs/EXPERIMENTAL_PUBLIC_TRANSPORT_SUPPORT.md
I wonder how many of the people hating on Brave realize it was founded by one of the co-founders of Mozilla 🤔
we do, we also realise that it was founded only because he got kicked out of Mozilla for being a bigoted piece of shit
here’s a nice article about Kape Technologies, the owner of PIA and two other VPN services: https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/what-is-kape-technologies-what-you-need-to-know-about-the-parent-company-of-cyberghost-vpn/
some choices mentioned are questionable (e.g. Brave and PIA), some good solutions are omitted (Organic Maps), but otherwise it’s… surpringly not horrible.
I wonder if the title implies that there are some other videos in the series, perhaps with a number lower than 2?
Invidious supports high resolutions, you just need to enable DASH in settings.
I’ve been using the Fairphone 4 with CalyxOS and /e/OS before that, it’s pretty neat
no, it requires unlocking the bootloader in order to replace the OS completely.
that too, but they want to carve out a little hole for themselves where they can be even racister without people opposing them.
there are some Mastodon instances (like bird.makeup) that mirror posts from Twitter accounts, someone just has to request to mirror each specific account first. technically someone could set up a Pixelfed instance that would do the same with Instagram users, but 1. storage is much more of an issue when it comes to a media-first service, and 2. I bet Meta’s legal team is much more trigger happy than Twitter’s.
without them changing their habits? you don’t.
they like having a private space where they can be as racist and bigoted as they want to be
they encrypt the content, but not the metadata. so Meta might not know what you’re talking about, but will know who do you talk with, how often, where from, for how long, and so on. that’ll often be more valuable for advertisers than the contents of the messages themselves.
they are collating and amalgamating data coming from a single IP
lol no shit. of course they’re aggregating location data, this is how, among other examples, some therapists ended up having their patients recommended as Facebook friends in the past.
if they see someone being frequently in the same location you are and at the same time you are, they will leverage your relationship to serve you ads based on their (and, presumed by the algorithm, shared to some extent) interests.
The only explanation I have is that it’s somehow still listening.
or the other person participating in the conversation had looked them up.
the fourth thing: why should I bother reading something someone didn’t bother writing?
https://blog.torproject.org/tor-is-still-safe/