If you’re outside the US, or where more people use Samsung devices, Samsung Smarttags could be a better choice.

Better watch youtube from a piped instance.

Because I don’t expect the target audience to be here in /c/privacy

There are services like https://nextdns.io/ that makes it super easy to use DNS-based tracker blocking on most devices.

For local gallery. Simple gallery is better.

But for searching your photos, Google photos is still pretty great.

Maps and Photos are ok IMO. Slowly getting shittier though.

Domain registrations are not free. It’s an annual fee, I don’t think any company will give those out for free. I can recommend using https://www.namecheap.com/ for domain registrations.

The words “unlimited”, “as much as you want”, etc have lost all of their meanings lol

Nothing went wrong. Reddit’s desire to monetize simply trumps everything.

We were witnessing enshittification process in full force.

Another great alternative to Reddit. It’s also a non-profit.

Play Store link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.talklittle.android.tildes

Alternatively, opt-in to testing via web: https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.talklittle.android.tildes

It’s already supported 👍 Sponsorblock too.

They removed ‘don’t be evil’ from their code of conduct 5 years ago.

https://time.com/4060575/alphabet-google-dont-be-evil/

Used thinkpads (like the T480) are a great choice.

I use Manjaro Cinnamon on mine.

The biggest problem is if Google can influence all the major websites (banks, e-commerce, news sites, streaming services, social media, etc) to adopt this standard.

They’ve done it before with AMP.

It’s DRM, but for the whole web.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/07/googles-web-integrity-api-sounds-like-drm-for-the-web/

Don’t be evil.

I don’t follow.

The first line of the comment is: “Mozilla opposes this proposal because it contradicts our principles and vision for the Web.”

And the proposal is called: “Web Environment Integrity API”

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