After a brief scroll through their source repo, I think it’s a set of patches which gets applied by a script while compiling the browser from source.

So it’s unlikely that it will be susceptible,
unless they forget to patch some telemetry out during a release, which is unlikely, since the projects goal is data privacy + security.

Fork of FireFox,
with a focus on data privacy + security:
https://librewolf.net/

I’d also like to add IronFox,
similar to LibreWolf, but for mobile:
https://gitlab.com/ironfox-oss/IronFox/

Hi OP, I do the same thing during winters.

For XMR,
you can increase the profits a bit with XmrVsBeast + Gupaxx

• https://xmrvsbeast.com/p2pool/
• https://github.com/Cyrix126/gupaxx

It’s on F-Droid,
but you’ve gotta add their repo:

fdroidrepos://fdroid.ironfoxoss.org/fdroid/repo?fingerprint=C5E291B5A571F9C8CD9A9799C2C94E02EC9703948893F2CA756D67B94204F904

That link can also be found on their Gitlab:

https://gitlab.com/ironfox-oss/IronFox#ironfox

YouTube has been cracking down on alternative frontends.

Vanilla Invidious currently doesn’t work well,
so most hosters paused and/or gave up.

Fijxu runs a fork of Invidious,
with their own modifications implemented to circumvent the blocks,
here’s the source code if you’re interested:
https://git.nadeko.net/Fijxu/invidious

I’ve got big respect for Fijxu,
he’s been doing a very good job of keeping Invidious alive + fighting against the YouTube crackdown lately, basically all on his own.

If you can please consider:

• Donating for their work/hosting
• Hosting their fork on your own
• Solving open issues with pull requests to their fork

All the above can help Fijxu,
since currently he’s mostly fighting a big tech giant all on his own.

Perhaps Monero bounties has something?
https://bounties.monero.social/

You can get paid in XMR for helping the community build tools that help the ecosystem.

Day 1 8:30 - I’ll fix this in a few minutes
Day 1 8:30 - 17:00 - Head to desk banging
Day 1 17:00 - Fuck you and see you tomorrow
Day 2 8:45 - Fuck that was an easy fix,
why didn’t I think of that yesterday

And by continuing to use it,
it will stay that way.

Just don’t, plenty of other 2nd hand sites out there, with plenty of products available.

That’s nice and all,
but when will they tackle loot boxes?

That shit has pushed plenty of minors into gambling addictions, but they don’t crack down on it, since they get a sweet cut of it all.

Valve in general isn’t the worst company,
but they’re far from innocent as well.

If the fines regarding to it are in proportion with the revenue of the business, then it likely would make a lot of them think twice about doing so.

I agree that it’s hard to enforce the rules,
and that some would still ignore them.
However updating the rules give the abused people a chance of getting justice/consolidation for their stolen work, and diminishes the chance of companies breaking the rules.

It would not combat bit torrent (P2P) piracy.
But that’s also not that important imo.
Most pirates are rather poor folks,
just trying to watch/play some content which they can’t afford, they make up for a rather neglible amount of the profit that can be had.

However it would combat billion dollar companies that would use pirated content to train LLMs to sell further. All they need is x1 internal whistleblower about doing so, and they could be fined with an amount larger then the risk is worth.

No copyright law seems dangerous to me,
why create content if you can just steal it,
and earn on the back of the original creator without consequences?

I think I’d rather see it updated instead.
E.g. To hold AI companies and users accountable.
So they need explicit approval of copyright holders before they’re allowed to train upon / use their data.

Woah the lawsuit company that makes games on the side did a thing other then filing lawsuits?

Doesn’t matter, I won’t be spending any more money on Nintendouch products.

They ruined enough fan projects for me to start hating them.

And I have not even touched the subject of the calculated breaking point in the original Switch, better known as Joy-Cons.

Ahhh sad to hear, but thanks for your reply,
now I know that I can stop searching,
and start hoping for quick implementation of Wireguard config support for Netbird :)

Thanks for your suggestion, but after going through the Github issues,
I’m afraid that it’s not possible yet to connect to Netbird using a Wireguard config file:

• https://github.com/netbirdio/netbird/issues/2504
• https://github.com/netbirdio/netbird/issues/2627

I believe Briar currently is one of the best options out there, together with SimpleX.

However I lack usage experience with both.
Since no one I know makes use of them…

It was already hard enough to convince only a handful of my friends to start using Session and Matrix/Element (which are not the best options anymore), but I’m kinda doubtful about my success rate of making them switch once again…

My success with convincing people to use Telegram has been better though, since that’s the most commonly known, but nearly no one wants to install an app they never heard off before, just to chat with only me :P

Also “convincing people” lately goes smth like this for me:

• Do you have WhatsApp or Messenger so I can send you some pictures?
• No I don’t use apps that do not respect my privacy, but you can send em to me through SimpleX, Briar, Session, Matrix/Element, Telegram, Discord or email :P
• Upon which most choose Telegram or Discord as their means to contact me, sadly no one had Briar/SimpleX yet.

*Don’t Use Session,
if your threat profile includes government’s spending ±100k to crack your encryption, since their encryption is not the best out there.

Which they likely won’t for an average privacy conscious user, but they might for high ranking criminals.

It was a good read though,
I won’t invite new people to Session due to it.

But the title is a little click-baity,
“Session’s encryption is not the best”,
would be a more honest title.

Lately these lyrics come to mind ever more often:

White Americans, what?
Nothing better to do.
Why don’t you kick yourself out?
You’re an immigrant too.

Song: The White Stripes - Icky Thump

Thank you, those are some interesting/good use cases indeed!

What do you use it for?
I’ve had it for a while,
but ended up uninstalling it,
since I could not think of a good use case.

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