Full stack developer and privacy advocate. I like to keep the mentality, if you can program one language well, then you can program in any language!
Ufff sad to hear.
What you could do:
Also interesting, but annoying that you can’t install apks from outside the PlayStore :/ No way to circumvent it?
Not really imo,
however doing good taking small steps OP! :)
Suggestions I’d make:
I’d suggest LineageOS4MicroG:
https://lineage.microg.org/
It’s vanilla LineageOS,
with MicroG + F-Droid pre-included.
You’re very welcome! ^^
Afaik no alternatives yet,
but I can offer some de-googling friendly additions which I developed/contributed to :)
https://github.com/Rikj000/Android-Auto-XLauncher-Unlocked
^ Allows to use 3th party apps on Android Auto
https://github.com/sn-00-x/aa4mg
^ Allows to use Android Auto with MicroG (open source implementation of the GApps)
Check the changes,
they’re quite funny :P
I’ve noticed this too.
My assumption is that it might be mostly Chinese instances being hosted, configured to return such results, but it’s just a hunch.
How do you use SearXNG btw?
I use instance randomizers,
so each query goes through a random SearXNG instance, e.g:
GimmeASearX could help here,
since you can white/blacklist instances you want to use, but that can become tedious.
Searloc + Neocities are great for mobile devices and other places where you can’t self host GimmeASearX.
“bUt wE nEEdeD iT tO pRoTeCt tHe cHiLdrEn”
No you lying politicians, you needed it for surveillance reasons and now you harmed everyone instead… -.-"
Same for the chat control which keeps getting put on the table in Europe, there aint no thing like a backdoor “only for the good guys”, bad actors will find and abuse it eventually.
Hit up your politicians, tell them to start actually caring for your best interests instead of speedrunning towards a surveillance state.
How about:
Perhaps one of those can suite your needs
If you’re talking about a wallet,
what’s wrong with Monerujo?
https://www.monerujo.app/
Been using it for a while, open source,
scanned for trackers, contains none.
You do need to add their own repo to F-Droid to download it from there though:
https://f-droid.monerujo.io/fdroid/repo?fingerprint=a82c68e14af0aa6a2ec20e6b272eff25e5a038f3f65884316e0f5e0d91e7b713
Booo, I gladly paid,
now I’m forced into becoming the product,
through data collection…
Best mod ever! <3
Vibe Coding: To generate AI slop code without understanding, nor manually reviewing/altering said generated slop.
It literally means, produce low-quality work.
I get the sentiment,
however when the user base of a FOSS alternative grows beyond the closed source alternative, a switch can happen.
So it would be a good thing to have a FOSS alternative out there, which can accumulate a user base over time.
Without any alternatives being developed,
a switch can never happen.
After a brief scroll through their source repo, I think it’s a set of patches which gets applied by a script while compiling the browser from source.
So it’s unlikely that it will be susceptible,
unless they forget to patch some telemetry out during a release, which is unlikely, since the projects goal is data privacy + security.
Fork of FireFox,
with a focus on data privacy + security:
https://librewolf.net/
I’d also like to add IronFox,
similar to LibreWolf, but for mobile:
https://gitlab.com/ironfox-oss/IronFox/
Hi OP, I do the same thing during winters.
For XMR,
you can increase the profits a bit with XmrVsBeast + Gupaxx
I lately have a saying:
“If it’s not FOSS, it’s not worth your time”
YouTube has been cracking down on alternative frontends.
Vanilla Invidious currently doesn’t work well,
so most hosters paused and/or gave up.
Fijxu runs a fork of Invidious,
with their own modifications implemented to circumvent the blocks,
here’s the source code if you’re interested:
https://git.nadeko.net/Fijxu/invidious
I’ve got big respect for Fijxu,
he’s been doing a very good job of keeping Invidious alive + fighting against the YouTube crackdown lately, basically all on his own.
If you can please consider:
All the above can help Fijxu,
since currently he’s mostly fighting a big tech giant all on his own.
Huh, if your parents are the blocking factor,
how about trying to educate them a bit about F-Droid and data privacy?
Software from F-Droid really is much more privacy/battery/storage friendly. Just open source software, no spyware services bloating up the apps.
Perhaps after some convincing, they’ll at least allow you to use F-Droid and Aurora Store! :)
3xodus can help with convincing them:
It shows known trackers (= spyware) in applications.
ClassyShark does it by de-compiling the apps and scanning them on the fly.
Their website shows reports by other users that scanned applications.
Nearly everything from the PlayStore contains trackers, while nearly nothing from F-Droid does.