Since this keeps getting reposted, I’ll repost my comment.
It is not hard to apply critical thinking when looking at such a biased and opinionated “article”. The original writer provides little to no proof of anything and if you (OP of this Lemmy thread) just took 5 minutes out of your day to seek a response, you would’ve found one: debunking every single point.
Here you go: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27552530
Since this keeps getting reposted, I’ll repost my comment.
It is not hard to apply critical thinking when looking at such a biased and opinionated “article”. The original writer provides little to no proof of anything and if you (OP of this Lemmy thread) just took 5 minutes out of your day to seek a response, you would’ve found one: debunking every single point.
Here you go: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27552530
Poorly titled in my opinion.
Quitting social media includes the Fediverse too (based upon the titling).
Something such as “Quitting centralized social media” might be better worded.
My personal recommendation would be Protonmail.
Society if we create a cure for hiccups:
It is not hard to apply critical thinking when looking at such a biased and opinionated “article”. The original writer provides little to no proof of anything and if you (OP of this Lemmy thread) just took 5 minutes out of your day to seek a response, you would’ve found one: debunking every single point.
Here you go: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27552530
That’s like asking a drug dealer who they think the best dealer in town is.
It’s not a very hard guess.
Reddit*
*I strictly browse using the privacy friendly front-end https://teddit.net/ and I don’t own an account.
I highly encourage everyone who uses Snopyta instances to donate to their Liberapay (https://liberapay.com/Snopyta), their monthly cost is at €111.43 but they only rack up ∼€28 a month (https://snopyta.org/expenses/)
They provide amazing instances and deserve help to pay their bills for hosting so many privacy friendly services that we all use and love.
$30/m for the first 6 months, then a flat rate of $70/m for 1000 mbps up & down.
I’m assuming it’s gonna follow the same principle of Whatsapp which is: introduce more people to E2EE but still farm the metadata like Big Tech does.
Overall, I’d say this is a good thing, but far from perfect.
“Needs Javascript”
Can’t we just follow the “https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/”-model of building websites instead?
Np, good choice.
Whoogle is most definitely not for you then. Your search queries are extremely personal and sending them off from a single machine, or even your own remote server repeatedly is gonna lead to Google linking your search queries with your actual identity.
If you really want the tinfoiliest experience. I’d recommend paying for a dedicated privacy friendly remote server, pay with cash or Monero (XMR) and regularly switch server or provider.
If you don’t want to do the hard work but trust somebody else to do it. Use a public instance that has some form of reputation (like Snopyta) and search away (with a VPN/proxy).
Are you planning to self-host this on your machine, a remote server or use a public instance?
Whoogle strips Google off most if not all client-side tracking, but you’re still sending the queries to Google, not on the behalf of another server.
I hope that explains it.
That is scary.
Over a month for an extremely privacy invasive tracking method that can potentially get journalists deanonymized is not acceptable.
Is the biggest understatement for not doing research and making an article with utmost bias.
It’s a complete waste of time.