Perfectly safe. I do it all the time.

If you're more or less happy with Thunar, give PCManFM a try. Mostly the same layout so it should feel familiar, with more power user options that don't complicate the UI. In a debian based distro: sudo apt install pcmanfm

Truthfully speaking, I wouldn't care that much. My default position towards websites is distrust. As long as the site in question has some value to me I'm compromising. It's an unfortunate state of affairs, but the web wasn't designed with either privacy nor with security, nor with anonymity in mind, so you don't get any of those. I don't expect this to change, either. Not on the clearnet, anyway. Most people don't even know how things work. They visit websites like they visit a doctor. Unequipped with the knowledge to even notice if something is horribly wrong. We evolved to live in communities where everyone had each others back, so this attitude of trust was an advantage. Nowadays, where nobody has each others back and everyone is looking out only for himself, trust isn't a good thing anymore.

no, this is why most foss projects fail, because they do something their own way instead of listening to users.

Dolphin on my KDE Plasma + i3wm build

Never knew that you're quite famous among anime characters, she kept calling your name

I don't watch anime as they come out, I'll always wait for the blu-ray release. TV releases are often censored and/or unfinished. The BD version will be a finished version, often receiving upgraded animation and occasionally extra scenes or even entire extra episodes.

That's why I'm always at least one year behind everything.

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I use a ti8ling windows manager. usually

I know that my doctor won't get the vaccine for himself, since he considers it unsafe and I trust my doctor more than some stranger on the Internet claiming things. The specific complaint about the process was that the testing was only done on Africans who are genetically different from other races and thus the vaccine is still untested as far as these other races are concerned.

To me it remains untested until it is out in the field for about two years. How are you supposed to figure out long-term damage if you don't give the tests time?

Unfortunately the pharma industry is one that has lost every bit of trust it ever had over the years, so I wouldn't even be surprised if they were lying about everything, faking test results and paying off enough people to keep this under the lid. I recently heard that a cure for cancer was found decades ago, but since it was unprofitable the pharma industry suppressed it successfully. And that's just something I heard in the past few weeks.

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i appreciate you maintaining your position but i do not appreciate you spreading false facts. these were tested that how they are able to be distributed. if you did any to little research or had any basic knowledge on how vaccines were developed you would know this.

I support this post.

Depends on if it's collecting personal identifying information or not.

Just knowing things like traffic stats, busiest traffic days of the week or times of day, traffic total divided by country of origin or popular pages isn't much of a privacy concern anymore than knowing that at 5PM on a Friday, this particular coffee shop is busy.

Narrowing it down to knowing how many times a particular IP accesses the site, what pages, and what they clicked on to get to that page and what they clicked on to exit, etc... Knowing browser stats, screen resolution, OS, etc... That's the privacy concern. Just like knowing that at 5PM on a Friday, /u/mr4channer is at this busy coffee shop, and he was last week too, and often visits between these hours on these days, and orders this, and pays with that, etc. That's the privacy concern. But just having a general understanding of knowing peak usages isn't, in my opinion.

For what it's worth, I don't do any of that for this site. I do have network graphs at the server level that just tells me how much traffic passes. Can't differentiate between traffic from the various networks that way, besides Lokinet, which the service creates it's own virtual ethernet device so it's graphed separately, but with no data other than the just bandwidth in/out. For the purpose of this site, that's enough. Upvotes/comments, perceived activity and looking at a network graph over the course of time (say 3-6 months) will tell me if there is growth or not.

That ain't no small difference

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I never used Ubuntu and will never use Ubuntu at all !

Thanks for the others suggestions :)

tails os, debian, antix is bundled with a ton of software, opensuse also has liveos options. dont use ubuntu

analytics is not "privacy" focused at all

Hi thanks for fast answer !

I already have a amnesic OS with Tails for travel.

I choose the Live-USB option for unplug my OS/files and use it on any device like you said.

I'll use Debian or Artix or maybe TTY (why not LOL).

Nowadays if you want privacy I think the best way is to have Live USB (but the ultimate safest way to have total privacy is simply not be connected at all and totally Off The Grid but that's another topic :) )

Thanks you again for your answer !

PS : do you know any spotify or netflix like .onion ?

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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.