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Only if they knew they cannot stop anyone if they wanted to… CS6 is very much usable even today with internet blocked.


More like you are the one providing support to western genocidal empire by pretending to be aggressive against all oppression, while in reality practicing selective oppression against the good forces of the world.


You should have protested against 2014 Maidan coup and protested against the genocide of 14,000 Russians in DPR and LPR. But you will only protest against the correct action being undertaken. You never protested against US invasion and genocide of Iraqis, you were on your computer shitposting then just like now. For you the world is not any more complex than Blue vs red team. For you, all that matters is suppressing support for correct actions being taken against Nazi regime of Ukraine, so that you can support the future of USA/Europe where you live, at the cost of rest of the world being dogpiled on.

People like you will live under a fallen Anglo empire, amongst the rocks and chaff, deservedly so. There is no hope left, and everything you have will be taken away by rest of the 80-90% world your parents, past generations and governments have stolen from.

Its funny how you are a Nazi Ukraine apologist. You are the same as all those people that hate Jews/China/Russia/India/Africa but will hide it with a thin coating of nice words on internet.

Edit: thanks for downvote in 3 minutes, everybody here knows you are the person I described


Only one, if you consider it as one. Many people do. YouTube Recommendation feed, which brings with itself YouTube culture and being able to keep up with the latest YouTube celebrity memes in your social circle.

I consider it a negative because it sucks away a lot of time and is meaningless junk.


Have you considered the possibility of something called reading what you post? I think it is too hard for NATO drones though, because you people no longer have independent brains.


mstdn.social concentration is looking similar to matrix.org, so, what about Matrix then?



I use Windows 10 on M.2 SSD and Ubuntu LTS on HDD on my modern ThinkPad like a dual power user. Why, because I can, I am gigachad.


ONE GOOD FREE FILE MANAGER

I am angry and pissed how not a single free open source file manager, actually made for power multimedia users, has been made to date with the ideal functionality I can imagine. Not even free closed ones are good enough. And not even paid ones are what I want them to be.

Linux file managers all have a problem of not having attribute detail columns related to videos, audio and photos for some bizarre reason. On Windows you have Explorer++ and FreeCommanderXE, best ones, that screen tear like a bag of poop with thumbnails on, then you have Directory Opus which costs $80 and still is not ideal because all they figured out was giving options, but not getting experienced power users to help design default UIs.


@petrescatraian@libranet.de You are an apologist for the genocidal regime of USA that loves to manufacture colour revolutions in countries to ensure their global hegemonic dictatorship, and to ensure using media, military, NED funded fake NGOs and funded terrorist groups around the world, that any country has trouble maintaining sovereignty.

If that is your only existential purpose, you can safely parrot with other parrots at Reddit and Twitter.


You should atleast try to not misquote people and misrepresent what they write. Are you people so desperate to depend on manufacturing lies about people?

BTW Putin and Xi personally came to my home and gave me those sweet bags of money. Did Biden and Zelensky not come to your house?


* Massive pro-EU, anti-Russia colour revolution is manufactured in Georgia


Even Americans and Europeans would want someone like Xi one day, because he is competent and cares about the ones who elected him to power.


When will Czech and Denmark (puppets of USA) declare such warnings against Google, Apple, Facebook, Instagram, Amazon and Microsoft? Spoiler: they will never dare to, because national security is basically excuse for curbing democratic freedoms of citizens they so love to honk and scream about.


Energized GitHub has been unmaintained since few months, and is showing 404 error on HOSTS files. Here is a copy of Energized Ultimate HOSTS file, and alternative HOSTS ruleset providers to consider.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/830873 > The HOSTS ruleset has been not maintained for a while, and that is not very helpful. This is a copy of Energized Ultimate from April 2022 that I am still using just fine. https://www21.zippyshare.com/v/qRxZ0lp9/file.html > > The various lists that Energized project used in combination can still be referenced. https://i.imgur.com/yZRDVAl.jpg > > I think **1Hosts PRO** is a good replacement, but try Lite or Pro whichever you prefer. https://github.com/badmojr/1Hosts You may try combining other HOSTS lists with this if you want to, and are technically adept enough. > > Another good option is **AdAway**, but you might need to combine other lists with it to have competent blocking compared to Energized. > > You also need to reference, download and merge spam and phishing lists manually if you want extra protection, unless you want to rely solely on DNS providers. I prefer having both HOSTS ruleset systemwide and a DNS provider, then whatever network firewalling/tunnelling is needed.
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Energized GitHub has been unmaintained since few months, and is showing 404 error on HOSTS files. Here is a copy of Energized Ultimate HOSTS file, and alternative HOSTS ruleset providers to consider.
The HOSTS ruleset has been not maintained for a while, and that is not very helpful. This is a copy of Energized Ultimate from April 2022 that I am still using just fine. https://www21.zippyshare.com/v/qRxZ0lp9/file.html The various lists that Energized project used in combination can still be referenced. https://i.imgur.com/yZRDVAl.jpg I think **1Hosts PRO** is a good replacement, but try Lite or Pro whichever you prefer. https://github.com/badmojr/1Hosts You may try combining other HOSTS lists with this if you want to, and are technically adept enough. Another good option is **AdAway**, but you might need to combine other lists with it to have competent blocking compared to Energized. You also need to reference, download and merge spam and phishing lists manually if you want extra protection, unless you want to rely solely on DNS providers. I prefer having both HOSTS ruleset systemwide and a DNS provider, then whatever network firewalling/tunnelling is needed.
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yt-dlp (command line, for all OSes)

Also, on Windows you can use IDM’s video grabber (get IDM from LRepacks.net, safe site) which works very conveniently with websites that require sign-in/cookies, and on Linux that would be XDM + VideoDownload Helper addon in browser.


Since Ubuntu 18.04 (now 22.04) I have kept trying and forcing myself to try and use Wayland. Nope. Wayland is not ready yet. Still on X.



Oh yes casual blanket discrimination of EVERYONE that is not a blue eyes blonde hair should be handwaved, because it must be an anomaly to treat rest of the world as subhumans by you and your Anglosphere.

Your little rant about Russia is very funny, because it is exactly what happens in USA, Canada and European countries. However, Russia does not engage in institutionalised discrimination the way Anglosphere imperialism does, or support for or commit genocides and foreign interventions to install their own puppets, or use their media to manipulate global discourse by carefully crafted everyday life propaganda aimed at the proletariat to suck them dry of their capital and revolutionary ability.

Anglosphere should probably just go commit genocide on each other if all they can do is commit genocide, because they clearly cannot think of anything along the lines of communism. All you folks can do is tax fund your genocidal overlords, and eat pizzas/burgers/baguettes on the couch and watch Netflix/HBO and cry bullshit on Twitter and parrot whatever NATO media tells you to. I almost forgot to say this, that media parroting includes (not even neo fascist or neo Nazi) straight up Nazi slogans and Nazi symbols and signs.

Go commit some revolution and overthrow your governments if you believe one shred in your human rights gibberish. Maybe it can atone for the sin of parroting the dehumanising narrative on Russia.


Citing Vice and Bellingcat as your sources really, really outs you, @petrescatraian@libranet.de. The sick fantasies that white Europeans have really opened my brains, which once used to think Europe might have some hope of being better than genocidal USA.

I thank you for opening my eyes to increase my distrust in Europeans, as an Indian, and to become aware of how far you people can go in maligning people that historically (and even now) work so hard against Nazism in this world. I will never forget how all non-blueeyes-blondehair people were pushed out when people were going to European countries as refugees during the start of Ukraine conflict.

Remember this Kremlin propaganda? https://twitter.com/non_philosophy/status/1498000420815396872



There are plenty haunting, disturbing and inhumane videos of Ukraine Nazis doing stuff like painting blood swastikas on the bare chests of dead Russian women. But I guess your account’s main purpose is to smear neoliberal dogshit on this site.



MBFC, you mean the well known bullshit fact checker with neoliberal biases? This breaks it down. https://lemmy.ml/comment/57988

I wonder how many times they used “Russian propaganda” phrasing, and how many times they use “American/Western propaganda” phrasing for USAGM/CFR/Bilderberg or EU news outlets.


I want to share my snippet of thought on this AI chat assistant phenomenon. We should stay away from empowering any of these corporation models with our data and input, and exclusively choose to empower open community models. OpenAI CEO recently making a statement about how he is dismantling capitalism, as a corporation, smelled too foul to me.



Too bad racists like you (who in the past practiced it on me as an Indian and quickly edited it) do not want any positivity around countries that are enemies of CIA.


4pda? Great, however it is Russian only.


You can only block internet trackers and app permissions for any package. If an app does not need internet, do not give it. Use NetGuard inside Shelter profile, easy to use firewall and you can load it up with HOSTS rules for ad tracker blocking.



FileCR, Apk4all, Apk4fun, onhax

Go to Telegram APK channels and try to notice the names of crackers/scene groups/creators on APK, and use that to find good scene cracker sources.




Well… seriously, go and read those archived r/linux and HN comments. This fellow here is pretty well known in privacy community to be basically someone who shits on Linux and praises Windows and MacOS security. This person and Brad Spengler were the ones to begin this trend of Big Tech “security” apologia in privacy community, which has become a disease with GrapheneOS on the mobile side of things now.

These specimens/entities coincidentally praise the security of Windows, MacOS, Google Pixel, Apple Secure Enclave, while calling Linux and FOSS projects horrible nightmare all the time, consistently. Moreover, they also coincidentally happen to call PRISM Snowden and Assange revelations irrelevant jokes (see https://web.archive.org/web/20220418214232/https://old.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/iox6rq/should_i_get_an_iphone_if_i_value_privacy/ or https://i.imgur.com/xcryYvM.jpg).

There is a lot to it, and its hard to form a gist of it other than these entities being extremely dangerous to and being the equivalent of termites to privacy community, everywhere one exists.


Tor has completely broken application on Brave, and leaks a lot of information.


Be grateful for the transparency I portray, and for presenting what people otherwise would never have known. Even I see it as a bit cringey, but I was neck deep into privacy community back then, and you have to use certain lingo to mesh with that crowd.

If I told you madaidan used to (probably still moderates) NSFW subreddits years ago, you would be shell shocked.


GrapheneOS is a custom Android fork with largely no security enhancements, besides UX rework and copypasting other security projects. They sell snake oil in the name of prestigious glory that FLOSS label carries.

https://np.reddit.com/r/privatelife/comments/v4wkon/i_guess_people_still_havent_forgotten/iba4og2/

Its lead developer (who became irrelevant in society) and his acolytes believe in purposely creating insane amounts of toxicity and drama to remain relevant in the privacy community. They baselessly label everyone with political epithets to defame everyone, and then scream “defamation” when a counter argument is presented to their manufactured position.

The long comment by official GrapheneOS account should be here: https://web.archive.org/web/20220502064114/https://old.reddit.com/r/PrivacyGuides/comments/uged1y/is_grapheneos_actually_good_or_just_hype/

Recently someone informed me of them creating drama with Bromite (on which their Vanadium browser is based) and FlorisBoard projects. They labelled those project maintainers with very bad, false epithets.

https://github.com/bromite/bromite/pull/2102#issuecomment-1155760155

https://github.com/bromite/bromite/issues/2141

http://web.archive.org/web/20220803142758/https://github.com/florisboard/florisboard/issues/1921

I had the opportunity to elaborate on the entire feature list of GrapheneOS, as per their website, last year. Look here. https://i.imgur.com/pQHoq84.jpg

There are only 3 things they ever did on their own as extras, and even they have basically no value in the grand scheme of things, them being offering:

  • instead of 16 character, 64 character password limit on lockscreen
  • PIN scrambling
  • Morula method of exec spawning instead of Zygote method used in most AOSP projects

Now, I will elaborate on these 3.

  • Elaborating on first one, it is kind of useless as you can see for obvious reasons.
  • For second one, you already understand why fingerprint avoids the issue of someone peeping at your PIN/password entered across your shoulder. Fingerprint is infinitely superior. Even more so with Android and iOS both offering biometric Lockdown features.
  • This one is somewhat half credible, but the goal is to destroy the memory blocks used by an app after it is exited, so that memory blocks do not retain essential text strings of data to exploit. For this, you can just go to Developer Options and enable “Don’t keep activities” and it will achieve the same effect as Morula method of exec spawning implemented by GrapheneOS.

So out of the 20-30 features GrapheneOS claims they developed, everything is either a modification of app permissions or firewalling or AOSP feature rebranding.

Also, as you may have famously heard about “Sandboxed Play Services”, it is not developed by GrapheneOS, but a project called ProtonAOSP, whose developer is kdrag0n. GrapheneOS copied that off and rebranded it as their own developed thing.

Recently someone informed me of them creating drama with Bromite (on which their Vanadium browser is based) and FlorisBoard projects. They labelled those project maintainers with very bad, false epithets.

https://github.com/bromite/bromite/pull/2102#issuecomment-1155760155

https://github.com/bromite/bromite/issues/2141

http://web.archive.org/web/20220803142758/https://github.com/florisboard/florisboard/issues/1921


Brave is basically just for people too dumb to install uBlock Origin on Firefox, and who desire a worse experience with the fickle greed of BAT garbage.


Let me provide you a little more on the subject.

https://web.archive.org/web/20220418212845/https://old.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/i80uki/theymozilla_killed_entire_threat_management_team/g1703is/

https://web.archive.org/web/20220418213345/https://old.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/i80uki/theymozilla_killed_entire_threat_management_team/g162g4r/?context=10000

Tweet linked in above hysteric post https://web.archive.org/web/20200812145114/https://nitter.net/MichalPurzynski/status/1293220570885062657

The job of madaidan/Spengler/GrapheneOS church is to hate and destroy FLOSS projects that condemn their actions or do not fall in line with them, and even attempt witch hunts on people that criticise them. I was a victim of it last year, as they hijacked the Matrix room of this very community (which I was unable to save since admins did not listen to me) and attempted to create fabricate projection lies against me because I moderate this place. https://archive.ph/acy2h


No, he is just another victim of madaidan/Spengler/GrapheneOS church propaganda.


One of the best… you mean toilet papers of the internet, repeatedly trashed by r/linux and HN users?

https://web.archive.org/web/20210929053611/https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/pwi1l9/thoughts_about_an_article_talking_about_the/

https://web.archive.org/web/20220111035527/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25590079

https://archive.is/zxS72

madaidan is an admin of GrapheneOS, NoGoolag, SpiteChat communities/chatrooms across various platforms. The “insecurities” blog chap, notorious for a lot of misinformation in FOSS and Linux communities but opposite in a big chunk of mainstream privacy community. A staple of the “redditor hackerman” starterpack, for people who know nothing better.

He knows literally nothing and has proven his credentials https://i.imgur.com/UHhQRIU.jpg and https://i.imgur.com/FiYhbkk.jpg, among many other places.


[URGENT] A micro post on why Invidious proxies and NewPipe is not working right now, and methods to workaround this.
Hello! Just a quick update, since all of us use these services, and everyone is suddenly thrown off. YouTube has introduced a change in layout of videos. Until now, we could see videos sorted in chronological (ascending or descending) orders, or popular. Now, we can only see "popular" and "recently uploaded" sorted videos due to YouTube's latest change. Invidious proxies (method which Newpipe uses to fetch video information) only show "oldest", "newest" and "popular" sorted videos. The former 2 sorting methods no longer work, which Invidious proxies show by default. It is unclear why YouTube removed the chronological sorting, which has always been useful. A conspiratorial guess being made is that YouTube can remove older videos or videos with no ads or demonetised channel videos. You can do few things, like: # METHOD 1 For this method, having https://www.f-droid.org/packages/com.trianguloy.urlchecker/ on your Android phone is very handy, because of quick URL string manipulation accessibility. YouTube provides system playlists with user uploads: you can access them by taking the channel ID (not the user ID or the handle) (for instance, UCTwECeGqMZee77BjdoYtI2Q is the channel ID for the channel URL https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTwECeGqMZee77BjdoYtI2Q), replacing the first two characters, UC, by UU, and appending the result to https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list= (for my example above, the resulting URL is https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=UUTwECeGqMZee77BjdoYtI2Q). Then open the link you get in NewPipe/Invidious This has some limitations (again, yes): you can't see the view count and the upload date (these informations are not returned on playlists), but the first video of the playlist is the most recent one. However, age-restricted videos are included in these playlists. # METHOD 2 You can use Invidious proxies in web browser, and search your favourite YouTube channel or content. The first 10-20 search results should have recent videos listed for relevance. # METHOD 3 Using YouTube.com and use boolean operators for chronological search: > exact match [“search term”] > search terms in the name of the video [intitle:”search term”] > Date: AFTER:YYYY Only videos after YYYY year > BEFORE: Only videos before YYYY year # CONCLUSION We could be entering an era of censorship, not by direct deletion of old or controversial content, but by obscurity and omission of argument tactics. Looking through older content, or dislikes on videos, is made difficult for reasons without a doubt. It is not a random change, so make the best of what you have right now. Times are changing very rapidly.
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The Definitive Computing Guide (Linux/Windows)
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(1/4) Hello! This has been requested from me dozens of times, and finally, from years of experience, I have created this guide that will serve an insanely large portion of computer users, from the most novice to the intermediate and advanced users. Everyone will find something here, this is a guarantee for both Linux and Windows users. This is something I have put my heart in, easily much more than the smartphone guide that people know me for. This might be one of my most definitive works by far, I carry this much confidence. A little briefer, I have used Windows since the W98 dialup days, and Linux for the past 5 years. I have a fair amount of experience with data compression, archival and preservation, besides the OPSEC work I do here. Before I move forward, I will thank many people: * Narsil (https://git.nixnet.services/Narsil) * DigDeeper (https://digdeeper.club) * Ameliorated Team (https://ameliorated.info/) * simplewall by henrypp (https://www.henrypp.org/product/simplewall) * WindowsSpyBlocker project (https://crazymax.dev/WindowsSpyBlocker/) * Energized HOSTS project (https://github.com/EnergizedProtection/EnergizedHosts) * many who I cannot name or are lost in time * and my dumb brain for remembering everything I put out here There are some prerequisites for using this guide: * You must know how to move mouse and type on keyboard, and copy paste files * Have a little patience and vigour to learn things Now that the basic things are out of way, we can move forward to the guide, which consists of 13 sections. # IMPARTING BASIC PHILOSOPHY ### F(L)OSS VS CLOSED SOURCE F(L)OSS means Free (Libre) Open Source software, and it means that the software is freeware, AND the source code that are building blocks of software, are available openly and freely for modification, reverse engineering, compilation and studying purposes. The correct way to say it, as Richard Stallman says, is FLOSS and not FOSS. There are nuances to various software licenses (Apache, GPLv2, GPLv3, LGPL, MIT et al) which is out of scope of basic philosophy and concerns developers and highly advanced users or business users. Generally freeware software (free as in free beer) exists whose source code is not available. This is freeware software and not open source or libre. Closed source software does not provide its source code, and may be free or paid. The developer closes source code from public usually for these reasons – inclusion of non-free software code components, or monetising software, making a free artificially restricted version to monetise, or inserting ads/spyware/malware of some form. As is obvious, FLOSS is highly transparent towards community and is generally laborious work done for free for the society’s greater good. This is rare in the case of closed source software, which serves one of the forementioned purposes. The soul and spirit of FLOSS is socialist/communist, in a similar way to piracy. The purpose of it is to serve the greater good. In comparison, the soul and spirit of closed source software, outside rare cases of benevolence, is highly corporate and fascistic, similar to a leech, which in many cases these days may suck money out of your wallets for subscriptions. It may also serve as a leech to suck your data for telemetry and spying purposes. FLOSS will rarely cause telemetry issues, and if it does, there will always either be a developer announcement or community uproar about it. Always try to pick FLOSS software wherever possible, unless absolutely necessary otherwise, depending on job or social circle circumstances. ### DEVELOPING EXPERIENCE AND VIGOUR To do computing, there must be developed a little taste for computing. It is no different than a collector’s hobby, or an enthusiast for anything, be it pens, pencils, watches, cars, bikes, clothes, food and so on. Computing is an art, and not just a way to get shit done and shutdown. You can not just do things but live with a computer. It has more capabilities and a bigger canvas than your itty bitty locked down smartphone or a crappy iPad. You may think that smartphone gets 95% of the job done, but there is no personal taste in convenience. This is the most non-human like part of convenience that people miss. There is a certain work ethic and class that computing has, when you sit on the desk and chair (not gaming chair). There are simple ways to develop this vigour and proactiveness, like reading changelogs of software you want to download, install or update. This readies you in advance for knowing what the new software version carries with it, and forces you to learn more things naturally. You should also, instead of blindly clicking the system update button, check what things are being updated. You will not die if you take a few minutes doing this practice every week. You may also benefit from it, at times. There are examples of how this can save you, like the famous uTorrent 2.2.1 we all know, or Ubuntu’s file manager having to disable a functionality temporarily so that a vulnerability could be fixed, and so on. The most critical software to update is internet related, but everything else is not so critical. However, one of the biggest examples clearly would be the free upgrade offered to Windows 7 and 8 users, to Windows 10. Windows 10 was a nightmare of bugs and telemetry when it released, and there were no solutions. I primed my computer for the free upgrade, waited a couple days, and the forums and news all over basically taught me not to rush for upgrades. Let other people be guinea pig testers. ### IDENTIFY PRETEND EXPERTS AND DRAMA QUEENS ON INTERNET There are a lot of pretend experts these days. Some do it in the name of security, some do it on YouTube, some do it for drumming up hype purposes. Everything has a pretend expert these days, but I will restrict myself to the computing domain. In the case of security, there are many people that ignore privacy and anonymity implications, telemetry implications, and act apologetic for corporate closed source software. This is generally done for Western Big Tech, especialy Google, Apple, Microsoft and so on. Most of them are generally either hopeless people, employed on behalf of companies for marketing, or secretly have shareholder stakes with these public companies. RUN FROM THEM! Run as far as you can. These people never have your security interests as a priority. There are a lot of technology YouTube channels that try to capitalise and bank off of prominent and big software, and “recommend” it to people by reading the marketing sheet or website pages. Usually, they lack substance or are going to make a 2147483647th video about a topic, rinse and repeat. Unless something is FLOSS, if something comes from the corporate lovers, take it with a bag of salt, not just a grain. It is not just corporate lovers, though, that have cults. There are some projects that are FLOSS but have toxic or propagandistic cults behind them. One of them has some wonderful recent examples, related to FlorisBoard or Bromite (Chromium-based web browser). One of them is largely known for scammy crypto currency and creating a harmful network effect by giving sponsorships to tech YouTube channels. # HARDWARE AND BASIC TIPS TO CONSIDER * Do not fall for the special 50000 DPI mouse meme. 800-1000 DPI mouse works. * For a desktop, get a $30-50 mechanical keyboard with replaceable keys. Get keyboard switches that make less sound (Cherry MX Brown or Kalih equivalent). You will save money forever instead of replacing membrane keyboards every year. * Prefer brands for keyboard and mouse that can run without extra software. Zowie and Logitech are good brands. A lot of brands like Razer, SteelSeries and so on have spyware in the form of special software they “require” you to use for things like RGB lighting functionality. * Get a $2 clip-on or USB strip lamp for your laptop, instead of finding a backlit keyboard laptop. Lasts years. And your laptop purchase choices will never be limited again. * Get yourself USB 3.0 flash sticks made of metal instead of plastic. * Wipe and clean your monitor screen, keyboard and mouse with alcohol every week. * Take computer breaks every hour, and rotate your eyes and shoulders. * DO NOT USE DARK MODE AT DAYTIME! Also, USE DARK MODE AFTER EVENING. # DIFFERENCES BETWEEN WINDOWS AND LINUX, SIMPLIFIED You will not believe this, but Linux and Windows are almost identical today, with absolutely no emphasis on “almost”. The gap is so small, it is almost non existent now. Currently I have a setup of software that is identical and cross platform on both Linux and Windows, and the only difference lies with MS Office 2007 and CrystalDiskInfo. You can easily keep Windows in a virtual machine (VM) using VirtualBox on Linux, and use MS Office inside it. Works even with Windows XP, and can run any 16 bit nostalgic programs (although you can use DOSBox or any of its frontend GUIs for it on any OS). There is a compatibility layer (not emulator) called WINE, which you can use to run almost any Windows program natively on Linux without issues. A further improvement of it exists in the form of Bottles, a software based on WINE, available as a sandboxed Flatpak package. This allows to run things properly that even Windows 10 would not run today via backward compatibility. **Why would you need Windows?** If you want to play one of those 5-10% specific non-Steam or non-Epic store games or some anti-cheat games that are unavailable on Linux natively or via WINE/Proton, this is a reason to use Windows. Or if you want to use the proprietary VSCode for your job, it is a valid reason. There are a few software like video editors you can count on fingers, or the latest subscription based Photoshop.
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[WRITEUP] Criticism of r/PrivacyGuides, GrapheneOS, r/privacy communities, moderators and key members with 4 years of documented evidence
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Archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20220501212233/https://old.reddit.com/r/privatelife/comments/ug9qnc/writeup_criticism_of_rprivacyguides_grapheneos/ **I wanted to publish this a week ago, but my machine was begging for repairs and it gave up, so it stayed dead for a week. So, here we are.** Hello! The dust has settled. There is something I want to talk to all of you once again, something that I wrote approximately 23 months ago about, and has been stickied on this subreddit ever since. No, it is not the smartphone guide, and it is a lore that I do not think anybody except me has ever attempted to shed a light on, except until a month ago when BurungHantu, founder of PrivacyTools.io, did. As always, my aim is to stay objective throughout, and drop my opinions separately in a section at the very end. I also want to mention that this is a lore that basically nobody other than me has tracked in this depth, and nobody else carries a record of these events in this manner to date or ever can. **REMINDER: NONE OF THIS WILL MAKE SENSE IF YOU KEEP ON READING WHILE NOT READING LINKED ARTICLES/SCREENSHOTS I MENTION AS I GO ON.** # A BRIEF OVERVIEW A lot of people seemed to appreciate BurungHantu's blog post, and openly saw the censorship attempted across subreddits r/privacy, r/opensource and r/PrivacyGuides. This last one is the new "privacy" cool hangout cafe of the mainstream privacy subreddit circle. # THE PLAYERS IN THE GAME Before we move ahead, it is a good thing to make transparent the characters involved, so that we know who plays what role. A lot do not like this, apparently, because they want to fake objectivity. TheAnonymouseJoker (shameless plug): the "arbiter of truth" <insert Micay comment link>, ["false privacy prophet"](https://archive.is/Lm86i), wumao, 50cent, Chinese plant (https://i.imgur.com/vOyaidS.png), Putin bot these days... I am an independent privacy/freedom writer in the community with no donation/money channels and no links to YouTubers (Techlore, The Hated One, other privacytubers) and privacy communities in any form or way whatsoever. I am also a long term active user and promoter of the Fediverse platform Lemmy. trai_dep: A power moderator on Reddit. Moderator of r/privacy, r/PrivacyGuides, r/privacytoolsio (now defunct). I have spoken about him extensively in my 2 year old criticism writeup. One of the 2 characters in BurungHantu/PTIO's recent blog post. Jonah Aragon: A power moderator on Reddit. Moderator of r/PrivacyGuides and r/techlore, and Techlore Matrix room. The other person and focal point of BurungHantu/PTIO's blog post with many revelations. carrotcypher: Another power moderator of Reddit. Moderator of r/privacy, r/opensource and dozens of micro digital privacy/censorship subreddits. Daniel Micay: Developer of GrapheneOS, a security focused AOSP-based custom ROM exclusively for Google Pixels. Known to submit hardened malloc() patches for Linux kernel. A very controversial figure in privacy and FOSS/Linux communities. Uses @strcat and u/GrapheneOS handles across various platforms. madaidan: Admin of GrapheneOS, NoGoolag, SpiteChat communities/chatrooms across various platforms. The "insecurities" blog chap, notorious for a lot of misinformation in FOSS and Linux communities but opposite in a big chunk of mainstream privacy community. A staple of the "redditor hackerman" starterpack, for people who know nothing better. anupritaisno1/clannad/Coooom Yuki Nagato/randomhydrosol: same user, multiple names over time. They are one of the GrapheneOS members who use a lot of sockpuppets and frequently change pseudonym username. madaidan's friend. Note: clannad is seen changing username across Telegram and Reddit over time: https://i.imgur.com/V7McLFO.jpg cn3m: a friend of madaidan, who regularly spreads pro-Apple propaganda in privacy communities. For the most part, the account serves as a sockpuppet of someone since it has stayed inactive since 10 months. Lunacy: one of the newer GrapheneOS community parrots out there on Lemmy (now defunct). Comment activity was suspiciously similar to that of madaidan. An active member of GrapheneOS community. akc3n: moderator of GrapheneOS community, and active on PrivacyGuides and GrapheneOS subreddits, as well as on XMPP hunting users. Note: * He is one of the GrapheneOS Matrix room moderators. This will be important information later on. Proof: https://i.imgur.com/Uq4Xfxk.jpg * Notorious for practicing censorship beyond the Matrix room to practice censorship and/or suppress any GrapheneOS dissent, on Lemmy (https://i.imgur.com/4HtArcj.jpg) and XMPP (https://i.imgur.com/Hi089y6.jpg). Tommy_Tran/B0risGrishenko: New moderator of r/PrivacyGuides with suspiciously proven close links to GrapheneOS community. Did a hitpiece on me to gain recognition with PrivacyGuides team. Uses sockpuppets and identity obfuscation a lot on internet. # THE STORY. ONCE UPON A TIME... # GRSECURITY/SPENGLER SAGA Let me dial back the time machine to a few years ago, when madaidan's "insecurities" blog came into existence. It brought in a fair amount of fandom to him for some bizarre reason, which nobody has been able to pin down realistically. I can pinpoint it down to one big reason - anti-Linux faction of FOSS community, a large part of which is Brad Spengler, head of grsecurity, a security team that makes Linux kernel patches but gets rejected due to very arrogant behaviour, and even got reprimanded by Linus Torvalds, creator of Linux kernel in a mailing list. Some related threads on grsecurity: https://web.archive.org/web/20220401163814/https://www.theregister.com/2017/06/26/linus_torvalds_slams_pure_garbage_from_clowns_at_grsecurity/ https://web.archive.org/web/20220416203735/https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/pupumh/brad_spengler_grsecurity_brags_about_hoarding/ https://archive.is/f5djI https://web.archive.org/web/20220416203035/https://nitter.42l.fr/spendergrsec/status/1486366129438212098 madaidan's certain amount of influence comes from the kind of Reddit and internet community that revolves around a particular group, a faction that I see as very anti-Linux and anti-FOSS for the most part, not because criticism is bad, but grift in the name of criticism is bad. I will expand upon this more in a moment. I am sure, most are wondering what does madaidan have to do with this. Apparently, there have been way too many instances where, upon criticisms in discussions, GrapheneOS community proponents often cite a bunch of URLs, among which grsecurity is one of them. And this is not a one off instance, so I will link a couple screenshot threads from Lemmy from 6 months ago, which is an exchange between u/Lunacy and me. I will cite this in a later part of article as well. < Lunacy Lemmy thread pic> https://i.imgur.com/dgWcn2J.jpg https://i.imgur.com/fRXHRoR.jpg # ENTER THE DANIEL MICAY He is a very underrated but important part of this whole story. I assume many people have an idea of CopperheadOS company splitting between Micay and James Donaldson (u/darknetj on Reddit) due to a lot of controversies and tussle I have nothing to do with, and therefore I will avoid commenting on. After this tussle, GrapheneOS project was born, essentially a fork of CopperheadOS in layman terms, which was also developed heavily by Micay. GrapheneOS is largely an AOSP fork of a fork with some security patchwork on top of it. Here I would like to mention a little anecdote from 2 years ago, something Micay always avoids acknowledging for some funny reason. This screenshot is from my reddit inbox, where I was messaged by CopperheadOS CEO regarding something. ### COPPERHEADOS CEO MODMAIL https://i.imgur.com/hujn4P1.jpg I will let the readers interpret this on their own. ### DANIEL MICAY AND MADAIDAN'S POWER OF FRIENDSHIP Moving on, there is a thread and mailing list I want to mention, which will help connect the dots as to how Micay and madaidan are not just related, but intertwined into each other, like a grandma's woven sweater. Most have no clue about this, so I will share the mailing list URL and screenshot here. In the below reddit thread/screenshot, Daniel Micay and madaidan argue together against Firefox. Before the Tor Project mailing list happened in August 2019, the whole anti-Firefox sentiment mysteriously used to not exist in GrapheneOS community. https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2019-August/013995.html https://www.unddit.com/r/firefox/comments/gokcis/firefox_is_insecure_refuted/ Screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/8nkO5Ll.jpg # A SERIES OF COLLECTED THREADS OVER THE PAST FEW YEARS... I will now share a Lemmy masterlist I made, perhaps a collection of various conversations by madaidan and his friend cn3m. Here is the URL: https://lemmy.ml/post/73800/comment/66676 I will relink the Lunacy Lemmy exchange screenshot once again, since Lunacy's comments are important for context. https://i.imgur.com/fRXHRoR.jpg I have never explained anything about the comment threads in my masterlist before, so this should help. https://i.imgur.com/UHhQRIU.jpg I think this is self explanatory and shows madaidan's argumentation that is otherwise deleted by him. https://i.imgur.com/FiYhbkk.jpg: madaidan being very 4chan-y in terms of blaming the computer language for problems in particular software code (in this case Linux kernel), while dismissing everything when it comes to Windows. His blog page about Linux is a massive piece of "toilet paper" repeatedly debunked at this point. If you think the phrase "toilet paper" is mine, come, have a look. https://web.archive.org/web/20210929053611/https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/pwi1l9/thoughts_about_an_article_talking_about_the/ https://web.archive.org/web/20220111035527/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25590079 https://archive.is/zxS72 (1/3)
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**Too many people need to watch this in 2022.**
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Relevant reading: https://github.com/zlw9991/node-ipc-dependencies-list https://web.archive.org/web/20220318095406/https://github.com/RIAEvangelist/peacenotwar/issues/45 https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-NODEIPC-2426370
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I have always wanted to ask such questions, as such projects come from a different kind of crowd, internet anarchists with a free world utopia in mind. Since these projects are also used by Chinese netizens, what do people think about this? While Tor Project was DARPA made, many people benefit from it. Same goes for internet preservation projects, since internet is largely a creation of West. I seek the perspective of native mainlanders and Chinese born here importantly, because I have not seen this being discussed anywhere. Edit: I hate how armchair westerners have an issue with letting this topic be discussed calmly.
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The amount of Russophobia and anti Russian censorship ongoing currently on Reddit is astounding.
I am observing a very similar sentiment to Sinophobia, now regarding Russia. Reddit's audience is primarily 80% USA + West EU, and the rest 20% also includes a lot of East Europe and other countries, leaving for 5-10% anti-hatred people. On the other hand, Western world makes up for a mere 12% of the world's population. This speaks volumes about how majoritarianism is flipped on the internet by Western world to suit their narratives and loudmouth whatever they want dominating in virtual space. And since moderators are also from said Western countries, the biases are completely intentional and systematic. For all the "human rights" and "no censorship" nonsense these Western countries spout with the assumption of having high horse on moral grounds, they lie a lot systematically. Just an observation.
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What are easy to present criticisms of mainstream outlets like BBC and CNN?
While it is easy to use phrases like "use critical thinking", this is not easy for elders or cousins in families to be told, as this is not lucid to understand in a snap. It is essential for criticism to be easily communicable to ordinary people that watch Google Feed or MSN News daily, and I feel that such criticism is not even easy to access or read, considering ordinary people have been cornered from MSM, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook and rest of Big Tech and Western media apparatus. If you love your BBC and CNN feeds, avoid this post, this is not for you.
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/177032 > Combined with access timestamps, they can uniquely identify the source of any shared PDFs. > > Source: https://social.coop/@jonny/107685726645817029 -- Also includes tips for removing this data.
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r/PrivacyGuides restored citation-less slander post as facts, and GrapheneOS community sockpuppet theory is proven correct by one of its members
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/143981 > Mod statement: https://np.reddit.com/r/PrivacyGuides/comments/rxf02a/theanonymousjoker_false_privacy_prophet/hs1dxux?context=3 > > https://i.imgur.com/LahmNkO.jpg > > dng99/dngray has branded a citation-less slander post as facts. These are the "community standards" of r/PrivacyGuides. Always remember this. > > u/trai_dep, the record stands corrected once again > > Moreover, my theory about GrapheneOS community using sockpuppets is true, as confirmed by... > > https://np.reddit.com/r/fdroid/comments/rxtc14/came_across_this_thoughts/hs1o6no?context=3 > > https://i.imgur.com/JX6uTpx.jpg > > Tommy_Tran = B0risGrishenko (OP of slander post). Thanks for confirming my GrapheneOS community sockpuppet theory.
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r/PrivacyGuides restored citation-less slander post as facts, and GrapheneOS community sockpuppet theory is proven correct by one of its members
Mod statement: https://np.reddit.com/r/PrivacyGuides/comments/rxf02a/theanonymousjoker_false_privacy_prophet/hs1dxux?context=3 https://i.imgur.com/LahmNkO.jpg dng99/dngray has branded a citation-less slander post as facts. These are the "community standards" of r/PrivacyGuides. Always remember this. u/trai_dep, the record stands corrected once again Moreover, my theory about GrapheneOS community using sockpuppets is true, as confirmed by... https://np.reddit.com/r/fdroid/comments/rxtc14/came_across_this_thoughts/hs1o6no?context=3 https://i.imgur.com/JX6uTpx.jpg Tommy_Tran = B0risGrishenko (OP of slander post). Thanks for confirming my GrapheneOS community sockpuppet theory.
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r/PrivacyGuides is allowing a personally targeting post with my name in post title currently, slandering me and my smartphone guide
https://teddit.net/r/PrivacyGuides/comments/rxf02a/theanonymousjoker_false_privacy_prophet/ This is one of key GrapheneOS community members doing it, and r/PrivacyGuides has the same moderation team as r/privacytoolsio before, and the main moderator of r/privacy is also same. Has anyone seen this kind of behaviour in overall privacy community? Edit: https://ghostarchive.org/archive/ttkkU reddit post archived
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100% FOSS Smartphone Hardening non-root Guide 4.0
https://lemmy.ml/post/128667 Crosspost but the guide body is so long, I had to break it into 5 parts.
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Comment section for 100% FOSS Smartphone Hardening non-root Guide 4.0
https://lemmy.ml/post/128667 Lemmy unfortunately has a word limit for posts, and I had to break my post into 5 parts, 4 as comments, to be able to post it. So, comments and questions can be put here.
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100% FOSS Smartphone Hardening non-root Guide 4.0
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(1/5) Edit(11/1/2022): * MIUI has no biometric Lockdown, solution. * FFUpdater and UntrackMe apps recommended. * Added back Vinyl Music Player. **NOTE (June) 15/06/2020**: r_privacy moderator trai_dep [revengefully](https://np.reddit.com/r/privatelife/comments/h8hsdh/exclusive_rprivacy_moderator_deleted_smartphone/) deleted my highly gilded 1.0 guide [post](https://np.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/em8doj/smartphone_hardening_guide_for_normal_people/) before. # NOTE: I will NOT respond to prejudiced and political trolls. Hello! It took a while before I could gather enough upgrades to create this fourth iteration of the smartphone guide so many people love. It seems to have benefitted many people, and it was only a matter of time before things got spicier. It is time to, once again, shake up the expectations of how much privacy, security and anonymity you can achieve on a non rooted smartphone, even compared to all those funky "security" custom ROMs. It is time to get top grade levels of privacy in the hands (pun intended) of all you smartphone users. Steps are as always easy to apply if you follow the guide, which is a pivotal foundation of this guide I started 2 years ago. After all, what is a guide if you feel unease in even being able to follow its lead? Unlike last year, I want to try and fully rewrite the guide wherever possible, but some parts will seem similar obviously, as this, while technically being an incremental improvement, is also a massive jump for darknet users. This version of the guide took a while compared to the previous versions. **A kind request to share this guide to any privacy seeker.** ----- # User and device requirement * ANY Android 9+ device (Android 10+ recommended for better security) * knowledge of how to copy-paste commands in Linux or Mac Terminal/MS-DOS Command Prompt (for ADB, it is very simple, trust me) * For intermediate tech users: typing some URLs and saving them in a text file ----- # What brings this fourth iteration? Was the previous version not good enough? No, it was not, just like last time. There is always room for improvement, but I may have started to encounter law of diminishing returns, just like Moore's Law has started to fail with desktop CPU transistor count advancements. This does not mean I am stopping, but upgrades might get marginal from here on. The upgrades we now have are less in number, higher in quality. So, we have a lot explanation to read and understand this time around. A summary of new additions to the [3.0 guide](https://np.reddit.com/r/privatelife/comments/lpyl1s/100_foss_smartphone_hardening_nonroot_guide_30/): * Update to the Apple section * Many additions in section for app recommendations and replacements * NetGuard replaced with Invizible Pro (this is massive) * A colossal jump in your data security in the event of a possible physical phone theft using a couple applications * An attempt at teaching the importance of Android/AOSP's killswitch feature for VPNs/firewalls * (FOR XIAOMI USERS) How to configure Work Profile, as Second Space causes issues, and adding back biometric Lockdown * How to be able to copy files from work profile to main user storage without Shelter/Insular's Shuttle service * Some changes in phone brand recommendations * Caveat(s) ----- # Why not Apple devices? iPhone [does not allow you to have privacy](https://gist.github.com/iosecure/357e724811fe04167332ef54e736670d) due to its blackbox nature, and is simply a false marketing assurance by Apple to you. Recently, an unpatchable hardware flaw was [discovered](https://9to5mac.com/2020/08/01/new-unpatchable-exploit-allegedly-found-on-apples-secure-enclave-chip-heres-what-it-could-mean/) in Apple's T1 and T2 "security" chips, rendering Apple devices critically vulnerable. Also, [they recently dropped plan for encrypting iCloud backups after FBI complained](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-fbi-icloud-exclusive/exclusive-apple-dropped-plan-for-encrypting-backups-after-fbi-complained-sources-idUSKBN1ZK1CT). They also collect and sell data [quite a lot](https://i.imgur.com/n8Bk0bA.jpg). Siri still records conversations 9 months after Apple [promised not](https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/05/20/apple_siri_transcriptions/) to do it. Apple Mail app is vulnerable, yet Apple stays in [denial](https://9to5mac.com/2020/04/27/iphone-mail-vulnerabilities-2/). Also, [Apple sells certificates to third-party developers that allow them to track users](https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/01/apples-hypocritical-defense-data-privacy/581680/), [The San Ferdandino shooter publicity stunt was completely fraudulent](https://www.aclu.org/blog/privacy-technology/internet-privacy/one-fbis-major-claims-iphone-case-fraudulent), and [Louis Rossmann dismantled Apple's PR stunt "repair program"](https://invidio.us/watch?v=rwgpTDluufY). [Apple gave the FBI access to the iCloud account of a protester **accused** of setting police cars on fire](https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-fbi-icloud-investigation-seattle-protester-arson-2020-9). [Apple's authorised repair leaked a customer's sex tape during iPhone repair.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xt3YSD36ZNc) This is how much they respect your privacy. You want to know how much more they respect your privacy? Apple's Big Sur(veillance) fiasco seemed [not enough](https://np.reddit.com/r/privatelife/comments/jvdokk/writeup_beware_of_shills_defending_apple_big/), it seems. Still not enough to make your eyes pop wide open? Apple's CSAM mandatory scanning of your local storage is a fiasco that will echo forever. This blog [article](https://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?%2Farchives%2F929-One-Bad-Apple.html) should be of help. But they [lied](https://www.icenterpro.eu/apples-csam-system-was-hacked-but-the-firm-claims-it-is-protected/) how their system was never hacked. I [doubt](https://np.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/p6hsoh/p_appleneuralhash2onnx_reverseengineered_apple/). They even [removed CSAM protection references](https://www.macrumors.com/2021/12/15/apple-nixes-csam-references-website/) off of their website for some reason. Pretty sure atleast the most coveted privacy innovation of App Tracking protection with one button tracking denial would work, right? [Pure. Privacy. Theater.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/former-apple-engineer-says-button-164452709.html) Surely this benevolent company blocked and destroyed Facebook and Google's ad network ecosystem by blocking all those bad trackers and ads. Sigh. [Nope.](https://twitter.com/PatrickMcGee_/status/1449608262492459011) Now it is just Apple having monopoly over your monetised data. Also, Android's open source nature is starting to pay off in the long run. Apple 0-day exploits are far [cheaper](https://www.wired.com/story/android-zero-day-more-than-ios-zerodium/) to do than Android. ----- # LET'S GO!!! **ALL users must follow these steps except the "FOR ADVANCED/INTERMEDIATE USERS" tagged points or sections.** **Firstly, if your device is filled to the brim or used for long time, I recommend backing up your data and factory resetting for clean slate start.** * **Sign out all your** Google and phone brand **accounts** from your device so that Settings-->Accounts do not show any sign-ins **except WhatsApp/Signal/Telegram** * Install ADB on your Linux, Windows or Mac OS machine, simple guide: https://www.xda-developers.com/install-adb-windows-macos-linux/ * Use ["Universal Android Debloater"](https://gitlab.com/W1nst0n/universal-android-debloater) to easily debloat your bloated phone. NOTE: Samsung users will lose Samsung Pay, as Samsung has been caught and declares they sell this data: https://www.sammobile.com/news/samsung-pay-new-privacy-policy-your-data-sold/ * Install **F-Droid app store** from [here](https://f-droid.org/en/) * Install **NetGuard** app firewall (see NOTE) from F-Droid and set it up with privacy based DNS like *AdGuard/Uncensored/Tenta/Quad9 DNS*. NOTE: NetGuard with [Energized Ultimate](https://block.energized.pro/ultimate/formats/hosts.txt) HOSTS file with any one of the above mentioned DNS providers is the ultimate solution. **NOTE: Download the Energized Ultimate hosts file from https://github.com/EnergizedProtection/block and store it on phone beforehand. This will be used either for NetGuard or Invizible, whichever is picked later on.** **(FOR ADVANCED USERS)** If you know how to merge HOSTS rules in one text file, you can merge Xtreme addon pack from Energized GitHub. You can also experiment with the Porn and Malicious IP domain lists. NOTE: Set DNS provider address in Settings -> Advanced settings --> VPN IPv4, IPv6 and DNS * Install **Invizible Pro** from F-Droid (LONG SECTION FOR THIS BELOW) * In F-Droid store, open Repositories via the 3 dot menu on top right and add the following repositories below: 1. https://gitlab.com/rfc2822/fdroid-firefox 2. https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index.php 3. https://guardianproject.info/fdroid/repo/ Go back to F-Droid store home screen, and hit the update button beside the 3 dot menu. (This may vary if you have newer F-Droid store app with new user interface.) -----
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Firefox Suggest (search bar suggestions) is offline by default (proof inside)
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/84636 > > > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1727907 > > 'Offline' is currently the default which is explained in the [source code](https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/d488f68d845a87cc107612b667951152c34fb116/browser/components/urlbar/UrlbarPrefs.jsm#543): > > "This is the scenario for the "offline" rollout. Firefox Suggest suggestions are enabled by default. Search strings and matching keywords are not included in related telemetry. The onboarding dialog is not shown." > > Switching to 'online' would trigger a dialog that comes up when you start the browser. Only clicking 'Allow suggestions' on the dialog would opt you into the search query collection.
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Firefox Suggest (search bar suggestions) is offline by default (proof inside)
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1727907 'Offline' is currently the default which is explained in the [source code](https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/d488f68d845a87cc107612b667951152c34fb116/browser/components/urlbar/UrlbarPrefs.jsm#543): "This is the scenario for the "offline" rollout. Firefox Suggest suggestions are enabled by default. Search strings and matching keywords are not included in related telemetry. The onboarding dialog is not shown." Switching to 'online' would trigger a dialog that comes up when you start the browser. Only clicking 'Allow suggestions' on the dialog would opt you into the search query collection.
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