Nia [she/her]

You can turn off ads directly in DDG settings

Haven’t used it in a while, but in the time I used it I didn’t have many issues maintaining it. General rule is to just check out the news before you update because they’ll warn you if a package is likely to break stuff or requires manual intervention to update.

I remember installing a package that would prompt me for any packages I was about to update that had a new warning/news since the last update and would link me to it, but I haven’t been able to remember what it was called, it was really helpful.

Edit: It was this (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/informant), though just reading the announcements before every update would be just as effective

Allowing behavior like this to continue unopposed is just enabling the problem though

Basically a trap made to look tempting or valuable, ex: police run a site to buy illegal stuff for cheap to catch the people trying to buy it, like catching flies that want the honey

In this case if Tor Browser is a honeypot it means feds run the majority of nodes and would have a high chance of being able to easily identify users.

It’s a cat and mouse game with Google blocking the Piped proxy IP address of popular instances, and then those instances getting a new IP to use for it.

Solution is to use smaller instances or self host your own small/private instance, issue with that solution is that then the small instances become popular and the cycle continues.

On mobile some apps like LibreTube can disable the piped proxy and make a direct connection instead (which also lets Google see your IP), but I don’t know any way to disable piped proxy for public instances on PC

I moved from Tutanota and Proton to Skiff, though I’m still waiting for their privacy claims to be put to the test so I’m keeping my old accounts around just in case.

They offer more storage was my main reason for switching, the free tier seems like a decent Google free tier replacement as long as they don’t screw us over

For the last two you do have limited sideloading via things like Altstore, the catch is that without a developer account you have to refresh the apps once a week or they can’t be opened anymore, and you can only do it for three apps at a time (including the altstore app).

There are other ways but that’s the only one I know without jailbreaking.

Back when I had an iPhone I always had an emulator and a third party YouTube app sideloaded

You can disable the proxy on Libretube as well in the instance settings menu in-app, it also has another one that lets you make it fallback to the proxy if something goes wrong with direct connection which is convenient

I use them as my main email but don’t consider them truly private for anything sensitive until they prove it with a clean track record.

For now, they’re “at least they’re not Google” status to me. I would use Proton instead if the free tier didn’t lock spam/trash folder auto deletion behind a paywall.

Mull is pretty much the only option right now to get Arkenfox level Firefox on mobile, might change after broad extension support for mobile Firefox comes out soon and brings some more third party dev attention to it. Generally for now it’s just Firefox, then Fennec if you want telemetry and proprietary bits removed, then Mull if you want to get close to Arkenfox.

Most terminals on Linux don’t show any feedback when you’re typing your password, so that someone looking over your shoulder can’t tell how long or short it is.

It’s still registering it as you type, type your password and press enter and it will work despite not showing anything.

Traditional on a mouse, natural on a touchpad. Any other way feels wrong to me.

Openboard was good but got abandoned a year-ish ago, but there’s a fork of it now that I’d highly recommend checking out, they have glide typing but you have to manually install it but it’s a really easy install. I switched from gboard and I’ve been using it for about a month or two happily.

https://beehaw.org/comment/1196291 (app in the OP I made but link is to a comment giving instructions for the glide typing)

Archive links in case the link is down: GhostArchive / Archive.ph / Archive.org

Edit: Installing the glide typing makes it partially non-foss because it uses Google’s glide typing library, which is also why it has to be manually installed.

I can’t remember for sure but I think that I got Xbox cloud games working on Firefox before with thr user agent switcher back when I had it, it also works well for those sites that don’t work in Firefox sometimes.

That’s a YMMV thing though because sometimes the sites just genuinely don’t work in Firefox rather than just being blocked because they haven’t tested it

Oh definitely, I’m a bit hesitant about them because of things like that, I just consider them as an “it’s at least better than Google” kind of thing

This is no longer the case as of August last year, they managed to get the terms of the agreement changed https://www.pcworld.com/article/828064/duckduckgo-will-now-block-microsoft-trackers-too.html

Edit: Duckduckgo’s statement on it https://spreadprivacy.com/more-privacy-and-transparency/