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Wahaha wrote

Not sure whether I can trust that list, considering it features DuckDuckGo.

  1. DuckDuckGo has a tracker on the home page.
  2. DuckDuckGo tracks the ads you click on before redirecting you. You can see this in the screenshot below.

https://www.stoutner.com/new-default-homepage-and-search-engine/

Gabriel Weinberg, the founder of DuckDuckGo, used to run the Names Database.[1] This was a website that aimed to connect people who had lost contact by gathering lots and lots of e-mail addresses. Getting access could be done by either paying money, or submitting lots of e-mail addresses of other people. Since the service revolved around gathering personal information, it is very suspicious for Gabriel Weinberg to start a business that is privacy-oriented. [2]

DuckDuckGo used to set a tracking cookie, even though they claimed they didn't. This was done by a third party they cooperate with, which means that it wasn't necessarily intentional, but if it's unintentional, it shows a worrying lack of care.[3]

DuckDuckGo is based in the US. This makes it really easy for the NSA to compromise it. If it were based in the EU, for example, the NSA wouldn't have the legal power to force them to log everything without telling anyone. This wouldn't guarantee privacy, but it would make it a lot more plausible. Instead, they're based in the US, which means that the NSA can do whatever they want with them. There are secure search engines that are not based in the US.[3]

https://archive.is/9wR4O

https://archive.is/N2qe8

https://archive.is/qntuk

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Rambler OP wrote

We never used Cloudflare for DDOS filtering. Cloudflare was honestly used out of old habit of quick DNS setup and on-the-fly SSL Certs. Habits are hard to break sometimes.

Our current service provider handles the filtering for us.

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AWiggerInTime wrote

I'm disappointed.

Mark Rober promised a video feed and the most we got is a Kerbal Space Program knockoff with a photo that might as well been taken by Mr.Armstrong himself with his trusty Konica.

Literally, for me the fat guy with peanuts was the highlight of the stream.

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Wahaha OP wrote

Yes, but a browser that won't update until six months from now, can be trusted for six months. Also, a browser that you can read the source code of, in the sense that it is short enough that you can actually manage to read it in an evening or two, also has higher trust from me, like the surf browser.

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smartypants wrote (edited )

Thanks for your research, keep posting to all the 29 or so free speech sites... too bad Poal shadowbans, censors , deletes, and is a god damned dumpster fire.

I posted proof of two popular user upvoated topics totally censored by Poal admins this last week : https://ramble.pw/f/privacy/2387/-/comment/2901

LIST OF PLACES for you to consider posting your research and revelations!:

https://ramble.pw/f/privacy/2387/-/comment/2902

Save that list!

Also , be sure to add "on my OS, on my machine, conditionals as well" to not trigger people demanding you try it on 3 ISPS on 3 machines. Ask for confirmation at top and bottom of your post to not trigger the Brave fanboy nazis thinking you are a enemy shill.

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smartypants wrote (edited )

Poal.co censors far far too much in Feb 2021 : two examples in my prior post.

but I agree that Rambler need to post this asking for confirmation on all the following sites , and even other less censoring subreddits on Reddit.

The top 29 known mostly Free Speech social sites, unranked :

https://boards.4chan.org/pol/
https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/ (legible nondeletable 4chan)
https://www.16chan.xyz/pol/
https://8kun.top (current 2020 8Chan, tor onion link : jthnx5wyvjvzsxtu.onion)
https://8kun.top/pnd/ (8Chan pol)
https://forum.searchvoat.co/viewforum.php?f=31 (never censors legal speech)
https://www.dailystormer.name (https://dailystormer.su/)
https://endchan.org
https://notabug.io/t/all
https://9chan.tw/bestpol/
https://phuks.co/ [server down Oct 2020, up again]
https://poal.co/ (censors speech often, proof https://files.catbox.moe/iuncm1.jpg)
https://ramble.pw/ (not famous yet)
https://wearethene.ws/ (2021 very active 8Chan Q stuff, more legible)
https://Greatawakening.win/ (Q related)
https://raddle.me/ (Raddle)
https://vnnforum.com/
https://patriots.win/ (claims to be free speech, CENSORS discussions of jews, guns, race IQ, etc)
https://ruqqus.com/+MAGA (2% of the old thedonald.win users went here, despite ruqqus censorship)
https://dstormer6em3i4km.onion.link/ [http://dstormer6em3i4km.onion/] (emergency tor onion for https://dailystormer.su/)
https://www.whitedate.net/whitedate-forums/
https://endchan.net/qanonresearch/
https://ruqqus.com/ (claims to be free speech, has leftists control a lot of it)
https://saidit.net/ (censors, but not as bad as reddit)
https://communities.win/ (censors, but not as bad as reddit)

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Kalchaya wrote

Used OptiPlex PCs with XP Pro pre-installed and pre-activated are still available on eBay. Got my last/current one over three years ago, and it's still going strong. Unfortunately it's use for surfing is very limited by the last three remaining browsers, which is the only reason I'm in process of moving on to Win 7 Pro.

I am not a fan of Win 7, but I can put up with it for a year or two, til I teach myself Linux. My 'new' used PC is Dell Optiplex 7010 Mini-Tower, Quad Core i7 3770 (3.4GHz), 16GB DDR3 SDRAM, 1TB Hard Drive: Windows 7 Pro 64-bit. I had computer shop modify it. Mobile rack in the spare 5.25 bay which holds a SSD for MX Linux, and a regular hard disk for bare-metal/clone backups of Win 7.

AntiX is more on par with Linux Mint, both being slightly less intuitive than MX Linux, but I think AntiX is a smaller install than MX, so might be better for a laptop.

https://embeddedinventor.com/mx-linux-vs-antix-similarities-differences/

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