yeah the rating system is poorly executed. the articles on the other hand are quite a good read.

thanks, there were some bits there that I was not aware of. This is why the written form is superior to videos, I can quickly scan through the paragraphs searching for the information I want.

I know what Tor is and how to use it, thanks. I was just wondering what the video had to say about Tor + VPNs that hasn’t been said a million times. But I’m not watching video content.

Write an article.

for starters, it’s Cloudflared.

They admit to be sending your IP to Bing with every search too.

“For example, when you do a search on Ecosia we forward the following information to our partner, Bing: IP address, user agent string, search term, and some settings like your country and language setting”

each instance and community has their own policy. you have to either follow it or if you disagree, you’re free to create your own. you can’t do that in Facebook or whatever. so no, just because a random post was removed from a certain instance, it doesn’t mean Lemmy is censored at all.

this has nothing to do with communism.

matrix is VC funded and therefore has a big marketing budget. the XMPP foundation is community maintained and XMPP itself is a public domain standard, so there are not such interests nor capitals investing in it to make promotion.

default uBlock Origin. default lists are constantly updated to avoid breakage

half of these are not even barely security related.

and if you meant privacy, well, definitely none of the images either. SimpleX, SearXNG, Tor and I2P

PS: I find it hilarious that you include proprietary software like Vivaldi or Obsidian. That is how flawed this post is.

Why all the hate?

Have you read the article? They install their VPN before the user decides to use that service, when they could simply install it when the user decides to subscribe to their VPN.

I’m going to be downvoted for this but it’s recommended on privacy guides because they generally lack strict criteria with browsers. Both Firefox and Brave make automatic connections that shouldn’t be allowed.

Telemetry, even if well intentioned, might end in the wrong hands (by a company acquisition, a data breach or a government request). And the data collected is probably enough to make cross referencing with other sources and identify you.

as it’s usually the case with these shady proprietary super duper secure messengers they probably don’t have a protocol of their own. The dev probably took any other IMs source code, made a few changes to the UI and now is trying to grab some cash or data from the few people that install it.

Dev’s email is gmail. First red flag. And their social media profile are Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. Not to mention that all I can read about their “protocol” is shitty marketing speak. There’s no technical whitepaper. And there’s no code. It seems to be proprietary software which is enough reason to run away from it. Together with the rest of things, it looks like either it’s a honeypot or (more probably) a fake privacy initiative trying to grab some money/data from non technical users

I get your point and your use case, but I like to look further in the viability of the network.

yeah of course, a $5 box can’t host 500 users, they weren’t actual numbers. But in my tests on limited hardware, Synapse consumed almost twice as much RAM and CPU for (barely) the same usage. So I’d imagine that when scaling things up a large XMPP server can be run with much less hardware than a similarly sized Matrix server.

This is quite relevant for the longevity of the network. Cheaper hosting means more people can afford to voluntarily run servers and also less amount of donations can cover the costs.

idk about the rest but the $5 Hetzner box running Synapse is inaccurate. While you can definitely run either Prosody or Synapse in the same box, Prosody consumes much less resources, which means that if, for example, a $5 box can run a 500 users Prosody (XMPP) server, that same box running Synapse could allocate only around 100 users

(not actual numbers, I haven’t done any real benchmark other than installing both of them in my Raspberry Pi, mess around with both and test how Prosody’s resources consumption is much lower, both on “idle” and when receiving traffic)

You should give credit to digdeeper.

an answer I gave to another comment https://lemmy.world/comment/3542428

Cloudflare is one of the biggest privacy violators. They effectively act as a MITM which has your SSL keys and can read all the traffic between your browser and a website. Now imagine a single entity having the SSL keys to read the traffic of an important portion of the internet.

Oh and they block Tor and VPN users too.