That’s not true. The rich are extremely rich and with immense amount of power and influence, while the working class has little to nothing. That’s capitalism working perfectly as designed, my friend

It does! You can download the additional languages and then configure it how you want (a very common one is to swipe on the space bar)

I stopped using Startpage because they regularly limits service access to IPs reserved for VPNs or Tor and it was immensely annoying having to prove that I'm a human each time I searched for anything.

Have you also heard of SearXNG?

I’d be also curious to know what annoyed you about DDG or Brave search.

Source? Your ass?

Have a look at this guide and take your pick. Brave is indeed a very safe option for android after all.

I never said you said those things, tf are you talking about? I clearly said “acting as if”. And you were acting like that. Because when you “simply state the fact that it’s a corporation driven by profit” you play into their hand and inadvertently justify their mentality of ‘profit over everything else’, including privacy and truth. And speaking of putting words into people’s mouth…I never said that I expect them to act in the best interests of anyone. I clearly said that YouTube does not provide all that content for free. It is very much paid for, by both the loss of privacy and the many ads they run. Also, I find quite interesting how for you suddenly when people go against what I assume are your stances, they become toxic. You also put words into my mouth and clearly misinterpreted my point. By the same metric, how could I not assume that you too are toxic and not interested in legitimate discussions? You just replied to my comment with names and gaslighting. You added nothing of substance to the conversation.

But the vast majority of users will and indeed does watch the ads already. You know how many times I’ve provided alternatives to people so they wouldn’t have to watch the ads, only for them to stop and go back to normal YouTube because “it’s what I knew best, I feel more comfortable with that, etc”? Or all the people who pay for YouTube premium “because it’s easier”?

Quit acting as if such a gigantic monopoly like YouTube was a family-run business on the verge of collapse. They get paid already plenty and they have all the money they can desire. You are just defending corporate greed to squeeze every single cent they can from consumers while also trying to burn down every other viable alternative which is used by a single-digit percentage of their userbase.

For free?? You know they get paid to run all those ads, right? Quit defending a corporation, it’s beneath you

For me it was a convergence of things all at the right moment: Edward Snowden just happened, I just bought a new phone (to experiment with) and I saw a comment on Reddit detailing some privacy tips/tricks which made it seem very easy to get on board

If you want to avoid this happening again, this guide here as a lot of alternatives and suggestions.

Some are fairly easy (switch to Firefox) while others might be slightly harder (like maybe convincing your friends to stop with discord and use something else instead) but if you’d like to have more privacy, it’s all well worth it :)

Lmao same. Perfectly put

Monero.

Otherwise I don’t know if you’ll find an open source alternative to Google wallet, since the banking system overall is very much the opposite of open source

The day I trust Google for anything privacy related, is the day I’ll have lost my mind

As a general rule, I also hate monopolies

This goes to show how hard it is to put a rich white^orange? man in prison. The whole system failed at every turn and there’s STILL the chance he might become president again…ain’t that something?