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Poorly titled in my opinion.
Quitting social media includes the Fediverse too (based upon the titling).
Something such as “Quitting centralized social media” might be better worded.
My personal recommendation would be Protonmail.
52·3 years agoIt is not hard to apply critical thinking when looking at such a biased and opinionated “article”. The original writer provides little to no proof of anything and if you (OP of this Lemmy thread) just took 5 minutes out of your day to seek a response, you would’ve found one: debunking every single point.
Here you go: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27552530
That’s like asking a drug dealer who they think the best dealer in town is.
It’s not a very hard guess.
Reddit*
*I strictly browse using the privacy friendly front-end https://teddit.net/ and I don’t own an account.
$30/m for the first 6 months, then a flat rate of $70/m for 1000 mbps up & down.
I’m assuming it’s gonna follow the same principle of Whatsapp which is: introduce more people to E2EE but still farm the metadata like Big Tech does.
Overall, I’d say this is a good thing, but far from perfect.
That is scary.
Over a month for an extremely privacy invasive tracking method that can potentially get journalists deanonymized is not acceptable.
Vote with your dollar.
You can advocate all you want, but if their revenue remains the same, they have no incentive to change.
Red flag.
Jesus Christ, anyone but Luke Smith.
A user should be able to ask for a chromium-based browser with good privacy without having other Gecko-based browsers shoved down their throat.
What you guys are doing is not helpful.
If you don’t like the question asked and can’t be bothered to give decent alternatives, scroll by. Just keep scrolling.
This is not helpful advice.
You’re no better than the r/privacy subreddit who shove everything that OP didn’t ask for down their throat, instead of attempting to recommending something that the OP asked for.
Replies like yours is the reason why people who even have the slightest interest in privacy quickly lose that interest and switch completely back to Google, Facebook and other privacy-invasive alternatives.
Any step closer to better privacy is a good step taken.
In my opinion and from personal experience, I would go for Brave if I were you.
The “controversies” are blown way out of proportion and for the privacy and security it offers, it’s a great web browser.
For a Gecko-based browser, I’d pick Librewolf as it’s an actively maintained fork off Mozilla Firefox without the bloat and tracking.
If you have any questions or concerns, let me know and I’ll be happy to assist.
Their reasoning is even more ridiculous.
If Vivaldi browser is so close to being released under a unified open-source license, why isn’t it?
The Vivaldi UI is truly what makes the browser unique. As such, it is our most valuable asset in terms of code.
We don’t publish it under an open-source license and only release obfuscated versions of it. The obfuscation is partly there to improve performance, but it also very much is the first line of defense, to prevent other parties from taking the code and building an equivalent browser (essentially a fork) too easily.
It’s a major red flag if an “open source project” is against forks because of “competitive reasons”. You should not be in the open source business if that’s what you fear. The ability to fork leads to innovation, proprietary software and patents stop innovation.
Stop supporting companies who are against innovation and are purely driven off profit, with no actual care for whether the product is good or not for the end-consumer.
Sir, this is a wendy’s.
Since this keeps getting reposted, I’ll repost my comment.