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A Helping Hand to Dump Big Tech Censorship and Privacy Invasion

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  • Pitchfork51
    Pitchfork51 Member Posts: 27,662
    Swaye said:

    RoadTrip said:

    Swaye said:

    I've noticed little snippets all over the bored of people recommending ways to get away from "Big Tech," whether it is politically motivated based on their deplatforming and censoring of information, or simply based on privacy concerns. Red man is here to help. Here are some alternatives to shithead companies I personally hate. These opinions are my own but perhaps some will find it helpful.

    Internet Browser:

    Chrome owns the space. Chrome is Google. Google is terrible on both privacy and fairness.

    Try Firefox instead. Much more secure, and not trying to be Obama's best friend. Or, if you want to be even more daring, try Brave. I have been doing a little research based on a recommendation, and think I will be trying it out myself soon. Looks to be SUPER secure and even provides a way to transfer crypto.

    Search Engine:

    Google owns the space. Fuck off Google. The sell everything about you for Ad dollars then use the money to attack things you probably believe in.

    Try DuckDuckGo. Simply awesome, and not run by a cabal of leftist pricks.

    Video Content:

    YouTube owns the space. Youtube are basically modern day brownshirts. Fuck them in the ass.

    Try Rumble instead. These are the guys who offered to save Rogan if Spotify went soft.

    Messenger Apps:

    WhatsApp owns the space. At one point WA was great, then FaceBook bought it. Now it's privacy is dubious at best.

    Try Signal instead. Created by the original founder of WA as an attempt to right the wrong of getting into bed with FagBook. Everyone is migrating to Signal now. WA is for fags.

    Social Network:

    FagBook owns the space, and they are horrible by any metric. They would sell their own mother if they could, and their "fact checkers" are the functional equivalent of having the SS tell you facts about Jews.

    Try MeWe instead, the next-gen social network with no ads, no targeting, and no newsfeed manipulation. Full disclosure I have NOT tried them, because I am a hard target and think these social networks are for retards, but I have heard good things about this one.

    Micro-blogging:

    Twatter owns the space. In a stunning development, Twatter became the only thing in the universe worse than FagBook. Nobody wants to use Twatter except Antifa.

    Try GETTR or Gab instead. Really enough said here. Either of these options are LIGHTYEARS better than Twatter. Twatter is truly an enemy of the people.

    Crowdfunding:

    GoFundMe owns the space. They help raise money for BLM, but tried to steal the money for the Freedom Truckers until various Attorney Generals threatened to sue them into oblivion. I'll let you draw your own inferences with those facts.

    Try GiveSendGo instead. They believe in freedom of association. End.

    E-mail:

    Space owned by a who's who of turds - Outlook, Yahoo and Gmail (Google). They all hate freedom and hate you unless you like giving Biden daily reach arounds.

    Try ProtonMail instead. ProtonMail is also the world’s largest secure email service, developed by CERN and MIT scientists, and protected by Swiss privacy law. I personally use ProtonMail and it is legit as fook. Wouldn't use anything else.

    Wrap:up:

    Feel free to add to this list in the thread. If any really good stuff emerges I will try to add it over time. I'll keep this pinned for quite awhile if people seem interested. Stalin does not like crowded pins so it may not stick around forever, but I think this is a super helpful resource for people who value intellectual freedom and curiosity, and privacy. I should also add these solutions above are imperfect, but in my opinion are worlds better than their alternatives.


    Didn't Google buy DDG?
    Google owned duck.com and eventually sold it to them. That is the extent of their business dealing to my knowledge. There were rumors a couple years ago Apple was going to buy DDG but no idea what happened with that.
    Just admit you love and are owned by Google

    No one will think any less of you





    Than they already do
  • 46XiJCAB
    46XiJCAB Member Posts: 20,967
    NYT just did a hit piece on DDG. Apparently conspiracy theorists and conservative influencers are ditching Google for DDG.
  • Swaye
    Swaye Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 41,739 Founders Club
    46XiJCAB said:

    NYT just did a hit piece on DDG. Apparently conspiracy theorists and conservative influencers are ditching Google for DDG.

    Now they will do everything in their power to crush it.
  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 114,132 Founders Club
    edited February 2022
    When my lazy ass switched to DDG it alarmed them
  • 46XiJCAB
    46XiJCAB Member Posts: 20,967
    Isn’t it interesting that whenever a new kid on the block arrives, big tech overlords and our corrupt media launch combined attacks. It’s almost like they want total control of information dissemination.

    BidenBros?
  • Swaye
    Swaye Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 41,739 Founders Club
    46XiJCAB said:

    Isn’t it interesting that whenever a new kid on the block arrives, big tech overlords and our corrupt media launch combined attacks. It’s almost like they want total control of information dissemination.

    BidenBros?

    Like clockwork. There can be no technology but the Alphabet Borg.
  • Goduckies
    Goduckies Member Posts: 7,998 Standard Supporter
    Swaye said:

    thechatch said:

    I don’t use FB or messenger

    Safari for browser.

    Twitter to correct people’s spelling and grammar.

    Guilty of using Google for my SE, Outlook for company email and Gmail for personal use.

    I’ll take GiveSendGo a try.

    BTW I hate VenMo with a passion. Maybe cash app works. IDK

    I personally use Zelle, but only because a guy I trust in the industry says the privacy aspects are better with Zelle. I cannot confirm that at all, but Venmo just sucks, so Zelle it is.
    I love cash app, use it for my business all the time.
  • DerekJohnson
    DerekJohnson Administrator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 68,542 Founders Club
    thechatch said:

    I don’t use FB or messenger

    Safari for browser.

    Twitter to correct people’s spelling and grammar.

    Guilty of using Google for my SE, Outlook for company email and Gmail for personal use.

    I’ll take GiveSendGo a try.

    BTW I hate VenMo with a passion. Maybe cash app works. IDK

    I love Cash App
  • DerekJohnson
    DerekJohnson Administrator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 68,542 Founders Club

    Yeah I'm lazy which is what they like. I am more tech savvy than most my age but I also figure despite anything you do they can get in. That's my rationalization anyway


    https://money.cnn.com/2016/03/28/news/companies/fbi-apple-iphone-case-cracked/index.html

    Law enforcement officials were able to break into the phone used by Syed Farook with the help of an unnamed third party. Government officials did not go into detail about what was found on the phone.

    "The FBI has now successfully retrieved the data stored on the San Bernardino terrorist's iPhone and therefore no longer requires the assistance from Apple required by this Court Order," DOJ spokeswoman Melanie Newman said in a statement.

    The DOJ is dropping the case against Apple, since it no longer needs the company's help.


    We've gone from big tech refusing to help the FBI over a terror attack to big tech helping to freeze bank accounts of peaceful protestors and helping the BI identify people to arrest

    Also note the FBI didn't need the help anyway

    Or... Apple helped them but said, "We'll do it, but you can't tell them we did.
  • haie
    haie Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 23,820 Founders Club
    edited March 2022
    DuckDuckGo doesn't help much with privacy because sites and passthroughs use Google Analytics.

    It helps with using their search engine instead of Google's. But that's meaningless bc you're hitting uri's you know already
  • Kaepsknee
    Kaepsknee Member Posts: 14,913
    edited March 2022
    haie said:

    DuckDuckGo doesn't help much with privacy because sites and passthroughs use Google Analytics.

    It helps with using their search engine instead of Google's. But that's meaningless bc you're hitting uri's you know already

    And now they’ve announced that they will be deleting sites that they feel may be spreading misinformation. They are now Google.

    So other than Google and DDG, what’s a good search engine for Mobile?
  • haie
    haie Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 23,820 Founders Club
    Kaepsknee said:

    haie said:

    DuckDuckGo doesn't help much with privacy because sites and passthroughs use Google Analytics.

    It helps with using their search engine instead of Google's. But that's meaningless bc you're hitting uri's you know already

    And now they’ve announced that they will be deleting sites that they feel may be spreading misinformation. They are now Google.

    So other than Google and DDG, what’s a good search engine for Mobile?
    Brave, maybe?
  • LebamDawg
    LebamDawg Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 8,792 Swaye's Wigwam
    edited March 2022
    TOR is the way to go

    Edit:
    https://www.nstec.com/will-tor-vpn-be-compatible-with-my-router/

    Can You Use A Vpn And Tor Together?

    Yes! Through Tor and a VPN, you can protect your privacy, provide security, and maintain anonymity online. Connecting to a VPN or running Tor Browser first, followed by open Tor Browser, will accomplish this. Alternatively known as Tor over VPN or Onion over VPN, this setup allows you to connect to a VPN from anywhere in the world.
  • GrundleStiltzkin
    GrundleStiltzkin Member Posts: 61,516 Standard Supporter
    Hive mind shit (lol, jk, twatter spying for sure), this popped to top of feed on last refresh.
  • Swaye
    Swaye Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 41,739 Founders Club
    I'm switching to Brave, for browser and search engine. Heard great things about both. DDG was fun while it lasted. Fuckers.
  • WestlinnDuck
    WestlinnDuck Member Posts: 17,635 Standard Supporter

    If we say we’re friends with swaye can we also use brave?

    Kind of thought that "timeliness", "hard work" and "brave" were clearly white virtue signals and a sign of systemic institutional racism. So it appears that Indians are now blood brothers with the white man and the Asians at the top of the oppression pyramid. Things you learn here at the Pump.
  • TurdBomber
    TurdBomber Member Posts: 20,042 Standard Supporter
    edited March 2022
    Swaye said:

    I'm switching to Brave, for browser and search engine. Heard great things about both. DDG was fun while it lasted. Fuckers.

    Amen.

    But when will the cultural appropriation stop?

    Life is one trap after another, anymore.
  • TurdBomber
    TurdBomber Member Posts: 20,042 Standard Supporter

    If we say we’re friends with swaye can we also use brave?

    Kind of thought that "timeliness", "hard work" and "brave" were clearly white virtue signals and a sign of systemic institutional racism. So it appears that Indians are now blood brothers with the white man and the Asians at the top of the oppression pyramid. Things you learn here at the Pump.
    Anyone who engages in drunken brawls is a friend of mine.
  • MikeDamone
    MikeDamone Member Posts: 37,781
    What the hell kind of site is Derek running here?


  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 114,132 Founders Club
  • creepycoug
    creepycoug Member Posts: 24,070
    I'd expect this kind of harassment from @dnc , but not from you and Mike.
  • creepycoug
    creepycoug Member Posts: 24,070

    Duckduckgo is blocked at work. I was floored at first. Then I thought about it, and it made total sense given the tims we're in.

    Is nobody else here shocked and dismayed that the Fire Marshall attempted to use DuckDuckGo?

    @Fire_Marshall_Bill
  • Pitchfork51
    Pitchfork51 Member Posts: 27,662
    The creep is in the house
  • UW_Doog_Bot
    UW_Doog_Bot Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 18,191 Founders Club

    If you don’t use a VPN… WW3 can start


    Ah the economist's defense.