just “linux” in daily public speech is definitely the way to go branding-wise. no random pedestrian is gonna know what you’re talking about if you say GNU or Kubuntu or whatever (and they probably won’t know “Linux” either, but the chance is marginally higher)

dozens of variations

this is like saying windows 10 and 11 are completely different operating systems that can’t run the same .exes

just learned through another reply, thank you for putting my mind more at ease brothers 🤝

oh damn, didn’t know about tor’s history either! thank you for the relief. faith restored cautiously

well, this is concerning to hear. i had no idea signal was funded by the US state

i had history disabled for a while until i realized that it then forgets your progress in longer videos… deal-breaker for me

damn i never knew! thank you

this title totally buries the lead lede: outlook has started displaying ads in inboxes, that’s the story and that’s what Proton was pointing out

critical damage to the “privacy-conscious people are not freaks” message

ask them if they would say the same to an activist from an oppressive country

sorry iOS users

EU is forcing apple to allow sideloading. not sure when the deadline was, i think next year?

apple sucks for many reasons but this is just blatant fanboy mudslinging lol. i use plenty of foss on my apple devices, mainly mac

seem like they offer a lot for free

i gladly pay for proton knowing that i’m helping fund a critical tool for activists under oppressive regimes :)

Wasn’t there also a controversy where some people believed that telegram was private and secure, but that only was for a very limited subset of their features?

i think you’re thinking of how you have to go out of your way to start a “secret chat” for it to have the touted encryption. those “secret chats” are way less feature-rich than the standard ones though, which sucks ass

do you think someone walks around the forest to water each individual tree?

DDG is untrustworthy because it is US-based, and because its CEO and founder is also the founder of “The Names Database”

that is a great relief to hear, thank you :)

i’m comprehending that much, but i don’t understand how extensions “announce” themselves to the websites (except for content blockers). does my browser send a number corresponding to the amount of extensions i have installed? or are they listed out individually by hash or name?

but where do extensions come into the picture? i apologize if i’m missing something obvious here, but the only thing that article says about extensions is that blocking specific trackers counts as fingerprint data. but the VAST majority of my extensions aren’t blocking anything, they just customize the pages

can someone explain extension fingerprinting to me? i’ve always heard about it, but to my layman brain it doesn’t make sense that a locally executed modification of css (in the case of dark reader) gives any kind of data to the site host. i guess for ublock it makes more sense since i’m guessing that has to do with blocking specific requests from going out in the first place, or what?