Yes, I know, there are several alternatives, I use InviZible Pro, which also use TOR, but it’s always good to present also other OpenSource alternatives and the TOR VPN is a very recient release. El rest depends on the user which fits best his needs.
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19·2 days agoNice, face recognition surveillance for sure is because to protect our childrens.
Yes, a lot of people believe this. Privacy and security only depends on the ethics and intentions of the dev or company, not of the license of their product. A lot of mal/spyware is FLOSS, even Googles tracking APIs (eg.googleanalytics, google-tagmanager, etc), included in a lot of FOSS, is.
…as Dard Vader
Yes, when it was still Anakim Skywalker leading the company
Yes, a big surprise
You are free to compile it for yourself if you are masochist enough to compile a browser from source, only you can’t do it legally distributing it under an other brand than Vivaldi. That is the only limit.
Because Andi is until now the most privacy centric and reliable one of all I’ve tested since almost 3 years, it was the first ever search AI on the market, 5 Years ago, former called Lazyweb.ai, years before. Own LLM not biased by big companies. Developed by a small startup of 2 devs.
…We’re a small team of two founders (Angela and Jed) and some friends. We’re on a mission to unbreak the Internet and save the world from spam, misinformation and ad tech.
Search is broken because of misinformation, SEO spam and ads, and surveillance capitalism. It hasn’t changed in 20 years. Things are getting worse. The rise of GPT-based chatbots that confidently generate accurate-sounding “BS” with made-up sources is driving misinformation through the roof.
I asked Andi
Recent advances in facial recognition technology have sparked development of various counter-surveillance clothing and accessories. These anti-surveillance methods fall into several key categories:
Physical Alterations and Clothing
- Patterned clothing with complex designs that confuse facial recognition algorithms[1]
- Reflective materials that bounce back infrared light used by security cameras[1:1]
- Special scarves and hoodies designed to break up facial features[1:2]
- The “Camera Shy Hoodie” with embedded IR LEDs that overexpose security camera footage[2]
- Cap_Able brand clothing with patterns designed to deceive recognition systems[3]
Technical Solutions
- Infrared LED glasses that blind facial recognition cameras while remaining invisible to human eyes[1:3]
- Anti-surveillance devices that emit signals to interfere with camera sensors[1:4]
- Reflectacles privacy eyewear that blocks IR cameras[4]
Professional Applications
- Small reflective dot stickers used for motion tracking and high-speed camera detection[5]
- Camera obscura techniques used by photographers and artists[6]
Law Enforcement Concerns
- Police forces are expanding use of facial recognition vans and technology[7][8]
- Civil liberties groups argue the technology shows racial bias and privacy concerns[9]
- West Yorkshire’s Crime Commissioner states that facial recognition data “will not be stored”[7:1]
Sources:
Luxand - How to Fool and Avoid Facial Recognition in Public Places ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎
Maker Faire Rome - Fabric to deceive facial recognition systems ↩︎
BBC - ‘Facial recognition can make mistakes, it’s not a decision-maker’ ↩︎ ↩︎
Facebook - Digital face recognition camera van in Albany Rd ↩︎
Yahoo/Telegraph - Facial recognition cameras at Notting Hill Carnival ‘are racially biased’ ↩︎
I didn’t know that it is broken, I read about this app as recent updated one in AlternativeTo, which is IMHO a source pretty reliable. Using as mencioned the SMplayer, I didn’t test this app by myself.
As always, in concerts and selling their music. Same as they got paid before YT and Internet. YouTube is only a promotion side, as also in the past the Radio, where you also can listen their music for free. You pay mainly YouTube, the artist only recieve a small comission for the clicks. Because of this, most go to Bandcamp, where the can sell direct their music.
I use the SMplayer, which do almost the same, FOSS, also streaming from YT, SoundCloud and others.
Students like Vivaldi and it’s WebPanel and Split Screen.
No, Blink is the render engine of Chromium, same as Gecko in Firefox. Blink is one of the forks of KHTML, made by KDE, same as WebKit. It is used by Google use it in the Chrome browser and also EDGE, Opera, Brave, Vivaldi and other, forks of Blink are Qt browsers, eg. Otter browser or Falcon. Goanna is an fork from Gecko, used by eg. Pale Moon, Basilisk and K-Melon. But these forks only making sense for older devices and OS with few sys specs, due to limited functionality and compatibilities with certain web contents. Qt engines because of this more used in auxiliar app, eg. mail clients.
There are only this three engines + the 2 forks, which can be used by the current browsers, apart of some basic engines used by text only browsers, like eg Lynx or Links
It’s very difficult to get away from YT, too long time with free hands converted it to a monoply with all its abuses. Yes, there are alternatives like Odysee, PeerTube and some others, but they lack of contents, front ends, like Invidious, PokeTube, etc are getting killed more and more by Gargle. For music there isn’t such a big problem, most content can be listen in Bandcamp and other streaming sites, but for other contents only can be found, eg. in the homepages of the Public TV (Movies, Live streams, Documentals,…). Another possibility are Desktop clients, but eg. FreeTube relays on Invidious and with this most Videos are blocked, VLC or SMplayer still working mostly. It’s certainly a Mess and it will take years to be able to substitute really YT. Only manner until now is to use protection against the profiling and tracking (VPN, Proxies, ad/tracker blocker anyway mandatory, etc).
Yes, something like this, despite not fully OpenSource, it’s pretty trustworth because of this, there is nothing shady or hidden in Vivaldi.
You can, part of the script corresponding to its UI is proprietary, but UI code is written in plain, accessible code for those who read HTML, CSS and JS and even moddeable by the user, but can’t be forked legally by Chrome or EDGE (🖕) nor by other browsers. It`s something like open proprietary freeware. There are no logs, tracking or any other crap. nor third party investors. Sync ee2e no-knowledge. The rest is OpenSource with several different licenses, specificated in the source package. As all other browser, collecting anonym statistical data (country for lenguage settings, OS, needed tecnical data)
I use Vivaldi and Zen as second. I need the sync function and I don’t want an Mozilla account, nor an third party solution. Vivaldo offers full sync ee2e no knowledge in the own server in Iceland.
The Portmaster with its SPN is a good approach, apart of the encrypted DNS which Portmaster use, the SPN permits a difference to an Normal VPN, to use simultaneous different servers for different websites
If you live in a city (not only) anywhere, you are on at least 5-10 security cams when you leave your home on the way to work or the store, more counting those in your workplace and the store. Unknown how much are with face recognition soft. Think of it, you are tagget.
Worst knowing that a lot of live cams are even with public access and even streaming on YouTube.