It is unfortunate, buy we are giving our data freely, as we did on Spezzit. IMHO it would be great to block efforts to monetize Lemmy by ai, but that is not what we signed up for.

Lemmy is neither private, nor closed. It’s just the way it works.

Contributing in an open forum means the data will get harvested. If it closed there will be fewer views, open is what we have now.

Companies will train on what we post, we are not giving that (directly) to a centralized service though. To me that compromise is enough.

Isn’t that an inherent fault of Telegram though?

I use SimpleX, and unless I join one of the large discussion groups there cannot be any spam. You cannot just join anything except open groups. If you spam you get booted by whoever started the group.

I agree with you, and thank you for your work.

With my own project I no longer had the time, and a multinational was going to release it (based on what I had put online). So, I published everything I had and did a copyleft license. The multinational still made money, but could not patent it. Cottage industries still use it and you could make it right now with some soldering skills and a Mouser BOM.

The original product could be strictly physical, though it lacked quite a bit of functionality, adding a few chips or an SBC vastly improved its performance.

That’s great if you can still maintain your project, not everyone can though. In some ways I wish I was still in the thick of things, but I can’t be, and like I said it has moved on. My project is probably better now that I am no longer involved. Other people have moved it places I did not consider. I think that’s great. I still check in from time to time and provide guidance if asked, mostly I let it run its course.

the street finds its own use for things -William Gibson

Sorry for the overly wordy nonsense

It’s the nature of opensource, to my knowledge there is no official confirmation that Bromite (for example) is dead. Development stopped more than a year ago.

I had an opensource project many years ago, I knew I could not continue it for quite a few reasons. I did announce it before I stopped, but not everyone can.

My project was picked up and is much better than what I ever did with it.

We’re pursuing big plans for making all of our online lives freer and more empowered, and these plans will carry forward directly the ambitions we’ve strived for alongside the Skiff community.

That’s some nice corporate speak right there.

I didn’t downvote. I will tell you the site will not open with JShelter enabled. With that off there is a no opt-out cookie banner and the site uses Googletagmanager.

So it doesn’t seem at all privacy friendly.

ETA: I looked at it again in a Chromium browser and my firewall logs are a mess, I stopped counting at 20 different blocklists. Ads, tracking, privacy, it hits all of them. Avoid.

And the no opt-out should be illegal where I live.

https://ipx.ac/run and https://www.deviceinfo.me/ seems to give much the same info with none of the google or cookie stuff

Where’s Orbot?

Very nicely done, thanks

Well, Trail of Bits did more than a year ago

simplex.chat/blog/20221108-simplex-chat-v4.2-security-audit-new-website.html

But this one is private, it says so right on their analytics laden website.

Also from them is https://themarkup.org/blacklight

Enter a website address and see trackers before you visit it.

You could try https://rethinkdns.com/ their Android app is great too

ControlD has a free tier, albeit with less functionality

Two browsers, Mull (Firefox Android) Mulch (Chromium Android), and their own System Webview, and a bunch of their own apps, and comparison tables for releases etc. They are incredibly hard working and usually release updates same day as a security patch is released.

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Yes they were, and they used what you personally blocked to better enable ads that would bypass their adblocker. They had some catchy name for it, I don’t remember what. When they were exposed for their practices the privacy community did a mass uninstall. These features actually seem good, but I will never trust them again.

I tried to follow the link just to look at it, my firewall blocks it for ‘tracking’, I could bypass it but once bitten, twice shy.

Yes, it is only a solution if all parties are using Partisan, which means switching apps.

As I understand it the use case for this app is during protests in Belarus where the government shuts down mobile internet but not SMS.

Both Proton and Windscribe have free tiers. I believe RiseUp is as well.

Blocked @ the DNS level for ‘Malicious Domains’.

What is your question about this?

The entry for .su is not kind, unless you are in to cybercrime and white supremacy.