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using jewgle in your site at all is cringe

I prefer Debian but there are a ton of other flavors of Linux to choose from. You may just want to download a few and see what works best for you: https://www.debian.org/CD/live/

Since it doesn't sound like you need or want an amnesic OS like Tails (which is very popular and used by many via USB) I'd say just about any Linux flavor should work just fine.

Is the Live-USB option so that you can unplug your OS/files and use it on multiple devices, or so you can physically lock up the SSD when not in use (like in a physical safe?), or what? If not, then maybe installing as normal on the device you will use the most and using full disk encryption and following some basic privacy measures will offer you what you're looking for as well.

To be fair, I thought about using something to just measure website traffic and in the end, decided against it.

I used to run Piwik as a self-hosted alternative to Google Analytics on other sites in the past, but that still gave me the option to view a ton of data that I didn't really 'need'.

I figured for this site I'll just measure growth on perceived activity and BW use over the course of time. This is the first site I've ran that I've not cared about SEO scores and search rankings, that I've not (over) analyzed data over to try to improve this random metric or that.

I mean, you're still pinging YouTube directly but I guess at least you don't have to browse their site directly.

May not be so much a privacy tool as it is, just a tool. Wasn't for sure where to share this.

Oh, I like that! I'll link to it in my next list update like I've done not_bob's and copy any that hasn't already been covered. Looks good!

My go-to lists for new routers!

"Intellectual property" is an outgrowth of the old slave system, one which declares certain activities people do to be property rather than certain people. It needs to be abolished entirely. It would be almost infinitely more efficient to do so in technical terms, allowing all technology to everyone and just pay producers according to a tax system that lets the users select where they want their money to go. However, such a system would not benefit the few who own the world, so we must destroy it first.

What this article describes but fails to comment on is that "CAPTCHA" is a word that started off meaning "a test for humans versus bots" and ended up meaning "Google AND ONLY GOOGLE Rummaging Through Everything You Do On The Web To See If They Like It".

Nowadays, CAPTCHA can only serve as a means for the user to screen out fake forums like 4chan that look like they're independent companies when they're really just Google spy franchises. After you rule out everything bogus ... maybe you come here.

This is a fairly naive approach that tolerates having a lot of sites not work. To be sure, the sites that do work without Javascript are the best sites, the least spy-industrial-complex afflicted of what is out there.

But, that said, there is a more modest approach which is to run NoScript on Firefox and authorize Javascript on one site at a time as needed. Now NoScript and Firefox both come with big crooked "whitelists" but at least for the moment you can still disable what you see there.

A notable advantage of disabling scripts is that a LOT of news websites are really, really dumb. They have come up with something so stupid I couldn't believe the first time they did it and now everybody of course wants to copy it. Namely, the sites seem to rely on cookies to let people read one article from a web search, then start pretending they can't find any other article you click on. But I guess they use a script to check if you're accepting their cookies? So I just block all cookies from nyt, sanluisobispo, usnews, bostonglobe, kansascity, idahostatesman, miamiherald ... whatever dot com, and then they are as readable as in the glory days of the web before this script nonsense and the third party spy ads it was meant to propagate had ever been introduced, despite putting on a pretense of not being readable at all. I wonder if subscribers have as good an experience.

There is a hardware tool that can secure private information on a computer system... a hammer.

Somebody was right -- either Stallman or Kaczinksy. Take your pick.

Probably less ads :D

I tried 0.7.something and it didn't wanna work for shit, but apparently it runs fine now.

Note that hosts.txt has the offensive sites removed. hosts-all.txt has everything.

these are the ones I know:

• Piped
• libreddit

also Bibliogram doesn't work anymore :(
does anyone know an alternative ?

Remember to use http://notbob.i2p to find the newest sites and see what sites work!

Happy new year!

This is a great tool to find traces of yourself online or old social media accounts that you may have forgotten you had.

Weren't these very (very) cheap/affordable hardware firewalls?

What's something you'd suggest as an alternative? pfSense? Cisco?

Thanks for the advice!

Thanks for the post ; have not heard of this album prior !

What a bummer, he has some good albums ; RIP.

I LOVED blend s

Just calliope tbh

It's anime waifu, you can have multiple.