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Hushmail will provide your emails to police if asked by courts. I don't know why it's still on that infographic, this has been communicated numerous times.
Wow, not very hush after all.
Firefox has been doing a lot of caving in as of late. Librewolf is a solid browser, just gotta adjust to setting a whitelist for cookies but it's smooth sailing after the fact.
I'm being earnest, how has Firefox caved in and to who?
They made a shitty change to their TOS regarding sharing user data with advertisers, then backtracked (appropriately, imho). It's the same issue as always - Firefox costs Mozilla millions of dollars to develop and maintain, and it's entirely funded by advertising companies. I personally think Mozilla does a pretty good job of balancing interests, but that is a long term problematic relationship for privacy respecting software. I don't think any of the forks solve that problem, as they are still dependent on all of Mozilla's development money to keep going, and Chrome based browsers are even worse. Modern browsers are just too damned expensive! Anyway, the drama: https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/03/mozilla-rewrites-firefoxs-terms-of-use-after-user-backlash/?guccounter=1
Chrome based browsers are even worse
IMHO "even worse" it not accurate here. Chrome based browsers are much worse, and they are always developing new technologies to exploit users' privacy for profit.
I think the only viable option is to leave Chrome ASAP (for everyone). If one is unsatisfied with Firefox's policy (we should!), then to choose a non-Chromium browser carefully
Google funds Mozilla quite a bit. It would be good to decouple them but that would require a major change to how they are funded.
I think that Mozilla's Gecko is the only real alternative to Chrome/Safari's Blink/Webkit. If Firefox falls, everything else is based on Blink/Webkit.
I'm not sure you are vehemently agreeing with me, or somehow arguing the semantics that "even worse" and "much worse" mean something substantially different.
Indeed, see the context - I'm referring to the fact that Firefox is nearly 100% funded by advertisers, but separated by an arms-reach organization. Chrome is precisely 100% funded by advertisers, and under the complete control of an advertising company. Chrome is clearly worse, but Firefox is long-term problematic because that advertising money is going to whittle away at that separation eventually.
I apology for my words causing confusion. I'm not arguing "even worse" vs "much worse". I just want to emphasize Chrome is terrible at privacy.
Note for mobioffice: I bought their lifetime license a year back. They then removed it from their app and are pretending the license never existed. I emailed them and they told me to buy the subscription.
fuck that company
Spotify isn't on here, is not American.
Maybe because it's too unethical towards artists and pays vast sums of money to MAGA propagandist Joe Rogan.
But they included Proton and Firefox?
Just take Bluesky out of that thing. Unlike many things in this life, there's an easy and correct answer here: ActivityPub.
On another note, I didn't know Libby had profit sharing? I'm looking into double checking this one... AFAIK these ebook licensers are sapping the budget out of public libraries and Libby is in on it.
Also, I strongly recommend adding the Transit app as an alternative to Google Maps / Apple Maps for public transit users. They're based in Montreal iirc
OSM based maps are pretty good. Definitely check out Organic Maps.
Transit has that sugary and modern UX tailored for transit riders, but yeah Organic Maps is awesome, thumbs up for every day map needs.
Here's 2 additions: the Summit and Connect Lemmy apps are canadian!
Unreadable on my end unfortunately.
Nevermind I had to download the full res.
I believe Tidal is also an American company.
Thanks you!
Vivaldi in tryouts, will look into Shift browser Tuta mail installed today with custom domain Will exit Microsoft 365 within the week Will also exit Netflix for CBC Gem + Crave
I moved my mail, calendar, tasks, and document editing/storage to Mailbox.org. Very happy with the results.
Add Hoopla for a Canadian equivalent of Libby. It's đșđž but it serves library content for Canada.
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