I got my Grandma to switch to DDG after she saw an advert for it on TV.

My Gran, meanwhile, didn’t need convincing. She uses Ecosia, because she likes the whole reforestation thing they’re doing.

Yeah, I have my own SearXNG too, albeit hosted on a VPS. However, the difficulty I was talking about was in convincing other people to switch.

Yeah, that sounds like she clicked an ad. Personally, I’d recommend switching to Startpage, Whoogle, or SearXNG; but I understand that might be easier said than done.

Yeah, Anom or something. There was also a phone to go with it. SomeOrdinaryGamers did a video on it.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/P5yPBV2NKhc

I mean, Amnezichat appears to be open-source, so it could be audited; but it does seem suspicious.

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Also, if OP is using Android but not Firefox:

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/app.fedilab.nitterizeme

And if OP is using iOS:

https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/userscripts/id1463298887

https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/437291-open-source-alternative-redirector

Use redlib.

Ah, I stand corrected.

That’s a good idea. Why didn’t I think of that?

The boot issue is definitely hardware related. The machine doesn’t even power on the display before restarting.

Three reasons for me:

1. DNF can be kinda slow
2. Fedora is owned by Red Hat, which is owned by IBM, which is American and also assisted the Axis powers during WWII.
3. SELinux was created by the NSA. I know it’s FOSS, but I don’t feel I can trust any three-letter agency.

I never really got on with Slackware, but I might give it another shot…

I’m asking for advice.

Odysee is A video platform of LBRY. There is also LBRY for desktop and Android, and Librarian is an alternative frontend.

Slightly moreso than YouTube, but you should really use Librarian or the LBRY app.

Also, be warned that Odysee is alt-tech.

So, kinda like a cross between FreeTube and Torrent? Interesting idea…

Depending on the client, yes!

I believe in Windscribe and possibly IVPN, you can set it to connect to certain servers on certain networks.

If you run Linux, you can also do this with any VPN via NetworkManager.

I sure as hell don’t like that. I wonder what the chances are of me switchibg my immediate family over to Signal, just as a start…

• I used to have an Xperia SP. One day, I decided to swap out all of the AOSP apps that came preinstalled for Google’s own offerings.
• I also used to use Yandex as my main search engine. I thought it was better than DuckDuckGo…
• I also used to use Yandex.Browser, Yandex.Mail, and Yandex.Disk. I’m also not sure I deleted my account…
• Just three years ago, I was using Opera. I had no idea it had become a Chinese Chromium fork. I also used to use Maxthon, on occasion.
• I used to use Opera VPN.
• When I was about 7, I ended up with a bunch of malware on my laptop (turns out McAfee is shit). I recently discovered that my IP range briefly ended up on some blacklist around that time, so I assume I had become part of a botnet.
• Around this time, I used Hola VPN.
• Until fairly recently, I had multiple ad and tracker blockers installed at the same time. This is obviously overkill, and increases your fingerprintability.
• I also used to manually change my user agent to Chrome on Windows 10, despite the fact I was using Firefox on Linux. The mismatch also made me more fingerprintable.
• I used to have Do Not Track enabled, which can be used to fingerprint users.
• I used to use my browser fullscreen, meaning my screen resolution could be calculated and used for fingerprinting.
• I used to use Outlook.com as a client for my email, which was privately self-hosted by my dad.

Yeah, I used to be pretty insecure, huh. My privacy journey was quite fast, and began around 2020. My uncle had given me a ThinkPad and a DVD of Linux Mint. I was stuck at home for most of the year, I started watching a lot of sociopolitical comedy videos, and eventually one thing led to another and before you knew it I was wearing the metaphorical tinfoil hat.

Nowadays, I’m doing much better.

Glad I changed my stack over a few months ago:

• Proton Mail → Posteo
• Proton VPN → Mullvad VPN
• Proton Drive → Syncthing

I’d also recommend KeePassXC in place of Proton Pass, and Cake Wallet in place of Proton Wallet. However, these were both Proton services I never used anyway.