Gee think long and hard about this.

I just do it all in my openwrt router now. Set up any DoH (https-dns-proxy) or DoT (stubby) with DNSSEC, plus blocklists with adblock-fast.

Hagezi has some servers with default blocking https://github.com/hagezi/dns-servers

https://github.com/hagezi/dns-blocklists#dnsservices

I was liking NextDNS, they have good features, and I liked not having to maintain blocklist files with shady domains in plain text saved in my hardware, but their jurisdiction and their code being closed source made me reevaluate.

why feel bad for suggesting objectively better software?

You could read that again without assuming I was being defeatist. Not much more I can say.

We’ve been voting all this time while they dreamed this up in some island. It’s unanimous and worldwide. Get real.

imagine if he did

ChromeOS is also Android basically, no?

So… GrapheneOS in desktop mode. I don’t know the details, but there’s that I think. Kinda just hook up the phone to a dock with a monitor. Great option, more secure than linux.

You can try a regular linux distro with gnome. It’s a normal OS nowadays. I don’t see anything more or less complicated. Windows is more overwhelming imo with all the bloat you have to remove with some scripts downloaded off some russian forum, and all the settings within settings…

This is the only one I like. I think it’s done right under the hood. Good balance between features and looks like stock, without being too overloaded with options. It hasn’t been updated in a while, though nothing seems broken AFAIK.

While good intended these actions just further validate their ideas, by showing anything other than an uncompromising “No”.

They could as well publicly and really piss and shit all over these hearings at this point.

Custom roms can be just like distros. The problem is non unlockable bootloaders and device attestation and that’s only getting worse with the help of the govs. If we wanna try something, it would be directed here. But they’re really convinced only big corps can do it.

Anything else installed on a device, including GrapheneOS, will render it a dumb device. People don’t want that, they don’t even want freedom actually. They don’t want linux, never picked it up for decades. It’ll even get banned.

Welp they now have to protect us from all the cybercriminals in possession of citizen data after they failed to secure their systems.

Google phone sales don’t even register as change

Neat. Good to know. I’ll still look for the “we don’t collect shit” software.

If you’re gonna use a free one, might aswell. It’s just their barebones service with 3 countries. I don’t see why it would be any different from the paid option within the same company. There’s no different TOS afaik.

The company collects and processes fingerprintable information, including IP address, for “legitimate interests”, whatever those are at any point in time.

This Application may track Users by storing a unique identifier of their device, for analytics purposes or for storing Users’ preferences.

‘Privacy’ is not even mentioned anywhere in the website, not as a feature, not as a consideration or demonstrating awareness.

Except for GDPR this or that. Who cares, just don’t collect data…

No github page, can’t even take a peek at the development.

I’d say not privacy friendly. Would not install. Because while they don’t seem like a data mining operation, they’re still collecting something and there’s risk of database leaks, and privacy is clearly not a focus.

it’s 1 more after 8! Is there no mercy?

Lot’s of actually, theoretically, technically. Still, being investigated over speech and potentially be subject to lawfare, even if proven right after wasting time and money, is still speech discouragement to everyone watching.

You don’t even make money with this?

this happened on the discussion forum some days ago

Source is my own eyes, other people also commented on it. I was about to comment as well, just went to take a breather and once I arrived it was all deleted. User merely had a palestinian flag pfp, topmod here thought a mere flag was political. Too bad there’s nothing ‘political’ about genocide. There was literally another user with US/Israeli flags as pfp with their posts still active.

I also know it happens a lot over there. Some times it’s justified? Sure. Other times there’s also no source for their claims. If they read this they’ll probably play victim too.