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  • noodlejetski@lemm.ee
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    29 days ago

    some choices mentioned are questionable (e.g. Brave and PIA), some good solutions are omitted (Organic Maps), but otherwise it's... surpringly not horrible.

    • eco_game@discuss.tchncs.de
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      29 days ago

      What's the issue with PIA? I've used it for quite a while and am quite happy with it.

      The choice that surprised me was them recommending 1Password ($40/year) over Bitwarden ($10/year, solid free plan).

      • noodlejetski@lemm.ee
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        29 days ago

        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/

      • mctoasterson@reddthat.com
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        29 days ago

        Basically any VPN YouTubers shill is not going to result in a net gain in privacy (depending on your threat model) because many of them sell your data themselves, eagerly log traffic and comply with warrants, etc. Also their server IPs are usually known and blocked from various services.

    • eldavi@lemmy.ml
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      28 days ago

      the only horrible thing about this is how bad some of the alternatives are; somehow, it seems that google maps is the only one that will give you directions using public transit.

      • noodlejetski@lemm.ee
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        28 days ago

        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

  • viking@infosec.pub
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    29 days ago

    As long as you are still sourcing the content from youtube, you're not really de-googled.

    • Pherenike@lemmy.ml
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      29 days ago

      Yeah it's practically impossible to completely escape GAFAM unless we renounce 'digital life' or make a humongous effort or whatever. It's about reducing / minimizing the amount of shit they know about us, not being the coolest most degoogled guy in the room. I can't afford to quit my job just because they make me use Microsoft Authenticator. So yeah essentially it's better to use Newpipe than Youtube, what a great thing that some dude or dudette decided to develop it for free, Peertube? Even better, yay options, end of story.

    • noodlejetski@lemm.ee
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      29 days ago

      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