Rikj000

For M$ no clue, for browsing,
AdNauseam comes to mind.

It’s a fork of uBlock Origin,
which instead of blocking all the ads,
hides all the ads + clicks on them all in the background, which:

• Costs advertisers a lot of money
• Poisens your data profile, since they can’t make up your actual interests anymore

It’s more protest-ware then privacy-ware though,
since you’ll be overflooding them with bs data,
instead of minimizing the data collected.

You can install ClassyShark3xodus,
which can de-compile apps and scan them for trackers on the fly to figure it out yourself.

Do let us know the results :)

Well, it ain’t just the EU :/

Our right to privacy is under attack basically globally (EU, USA, England, Australia, maybe more, but those I’m aware off).

Being wrapped into bullshit reasons “to protect the children” or “to fight crime”, which won’t help, since malicious actors and creative kids will find work arounds for such measures.

The truth is likely more to put a oppressive surveillance police state into place. Where opposition can more easily be tracked down and silenced.

Now it’s more important then ever before to protect your rights to privacy. Since rights are easily eroded by politicians, but very hard to re-gain afterwards.

E.g. look at Russia, where you accidentally slit your throat while shaving if you try to voice yourself against Putin.

2 words though “Kiddie gambling”.

Sure Steam is one of the less evil companies out there, but they’re far from innocent.

You should, privacy is a human right which is being stripped away from us.

You’re basically saying I don’t really care about my human rights.

Without privacy, you’re one step closer to an authoritan regime, where mass surveillance helps prevent an uprising of the people against it.

E.g. Russia, where you “accidentally slit your throat while shaving” when you go against Putin.

DuckDuckGo has a “NoAI” subdomain:
https://noai.duckduckgo.com/

Works like normal DDG,
except, you guessed it, no AI :)

Alien,
the original 1979 one.

Imo it really aged well,
recently rewatched it and was amazed by how good the special effects looked, especially for that time.

It’s also a really good movie,
scores 8.5/10 on IMDB,
kept me on the tip of my chair for the full 2 houra.

Hahahahaaa omg OP so funny I can’t stop laughing /s

For real though, I am aware of, understand and even stand behind a lot of your concerns.

However for my mental health I’ll be blocking you.

We already get pummled by enough depressing media since it generates more clicks and thus shareholder profit, and I already block most of that out.

When I’m scrolling through meme communities though, I just want to be humoured, not become depressed.

Afaik no alternatives yet,
but I can offer some de-googling friendly additions which I developed/contributed to :)

https://github.com/Rikj000/Android-Auto-XLauncher-Unlocked
^ Allows to use 3th party apps on Android Auto

https://github.com/sn-00-x/aa4mg
^ Allows to use Android Auto with MicroG (open source implementation of the GApps)

I like the electric part.

What I don’t like is that it’s a steaming heap of spy-ware on wheels with no opt-out ability.

Which may lead to more expensive insurance depending on your driving style, or could be abused for even more nefarious reasons.

Don’t be hard on new Linux users tho. Even if they tweak their UI to something they’re familiar with at the start.