I’m looking into Technitium, which doesn’t get a ton of attention here. It looks to be much more feature packed than PiHole (DNS over HTTPS, for example), and similar to AdGuard Home.

Paying for privacy should be necessary because it’s the only way to fund development of the software you rely on. If you’re not paying, you’re the product.

I pay for email and a handful of other services online. I would be happy to pay for online content if that eliminated ads and tracking. I want to help fund Firefox, but my only option is Mozilla VPN/Relay. Donations don’t fund development, and the rest of the paid products have privacy issues. I also have concerns about Mozilla VPN, why wouldn’t I just go to Mullvad directly instead of adding another party that can potentially track me?

I’m happy to pay, let me pay.

Looking over their financials, they’d have to cut l over half their workforce and relocate to a cheaper area (to cut salaries by more than half) to get close to being financially stable without search income.

Website should be sufficient.

Oh man, that’s too good. Thanks for sharing this. Now I kinda want to ask it about blue waffles, but I’m a little scared to.

Good news, buttplug.io is written in Rust so it’s safe.

And I doubt they’re much more expensive.

That’s me as well. We have two cars, and both are old enough to drive. We need to replace them, but I’m holding out as long as I can.

And it looks nice.

Make sure to read their disclaimers, they’re really not interested in expanding features, so make double sure it’s sufficient for what you want.

And it’s harder to do both at once.

I wish more projects hosted their own F-droid repo and kept it up to date. FUTO has one for their stuff (Grayjay, FUTO Keyboard, etc), but it’s frequently outdated, whereas Bitwarden and a few others I use do a good job.

Maybe Accrescent is what I’m looking for. I just want a store that:

• automatically updates when devs push a release
• checks signatures
• has a good selection of FOSS apps

I basically want fdroid, but faster updates.

• Fennec - Firefox build with some proprietary stiff removed; repo
• IronFox - Firefox fork (forked from Mull) with a bunch of hardening changes (notably resistFingerprinting enabled); repo

IronFox is more ambitious, which means higher maintenance load and more likely to fall behind. Fennec is much simpler, so less likely to fall behind, but also doesn’t change much from Firefox.

The former, but the language looks vague enough that they could do the latter eventually. My understanding is that they have to be vague in the language for legal reasons (e.g. to appease regulators in various markets).

My understanding is this is due to regions broadening the definition of “sell” to include any form of personal data transfer. So Mozilla giving location info (with consent if you enable “ask every time” in the permissions) to websites to look up local store hours or whatever is “selling data.”

AFAIK, nothing has changed in Firefox.

Firefox is maintained by Mozilla, Fennec is a custom build that removes some stuff, and is maintained by some Russian person who I’m pretty sure isn’t affiliated with Mozilla (get here by clicking the “Issue Tracker” link).

It’s not a fork since it’s built from Mozilla sources, it’s just a build script.

Hmm, so invest?

Simplex is probably ready now. It’s self-hostable, and has strong encryption.

Um, what does that even mean?

Edit: Looks like it runs a VM. So some overhead, but still cool.

Twitter was incredibly popular, which certainly means something.

Nazi seig heiling all over the place it becomes completely unusable

This has nothing to do with the format.