unknowablenight

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Hello all! I've been making the switch from American to European tech, and was wondering your thoughts on Vivaldi browser and Qwant search engine.

Vivaldi is based on Chromium and iirc not fully open source, but is still suggested in European tech spaces, and has a pretty good privacy policy.

Qwant is not open source, though claims to not to sell personal data or store searches.

What are your thoughts and perhaps suggestions for alternatives?

[–] unknowablenight@piefed.social 16 points 18 hours ago

Having exit nodes for their VPN is not the same as collaborating with the government. There is no evidence that the Israeli government has access to any of their information, their servers are hosted in Switzerland.

[–] unknowablenight@piefed.social 1 points 19 hours ago

It's wonderful that you put in that work, great job!

[–] unknowablenight@piefed.social 4 points 20 hours ago

I hear about a book that sounds interesting (searching or talking to friends for recommendations), and put that next on my list. My next is Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.

[–] unknowablenight@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

A great thing about the Proton "ecosystem" is that it is not like Google where you need an account to access docs (or VPN on mobile!), though I agree that centralisation isn't the best thing for tech nerds like us. That's why I prefer to just use ProtonMail and VPN, and leave the other stuff like drives and password managers to other open-source projects.

(Also, having an ecosystem may be good for those who refuse to put in as much effort as us, or those who simply do not understand as much as we do. I personally don't support centralisation, but there's a reason that non-tech nerds often do.)

I just reload the tab, ublock lite on Vivaldi.

Copy a link, paste into an mp4 converter (I use cnvmp3.com), watch from files

I don't like the usage of Chromium in general, but it is open-source, so I don't think the usage of it is necessarily a dealbreaker, considering it's not the same as using Chrome. As far as I am aware, Vivaldi is not fully open-source, but generally has a good reputation.

https://protos.com/protonmail-hands-info-to-government-but-says-its-not-google/

TL;DR: Proton complied with Spanish authorities and gave up all the information they had on a man (the recovery email.)

With this in mind, I would personally say Proton is safe. The fact that all they were capable of providing was the recovery email should show that Proton is trustworthy with their privacy.

This is only one case, if anyone has any others, please do share them.

Glad to see this! I've been using it for some time now, it's a bit slow and glitches occasionally but is overall a great service. I hope it continues to grow and improve as time goes on!

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