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.

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.

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.

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.

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 ?

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.

these are the ones I know:

• Piped
• libreddit

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

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

Calling other names isn't a very convincing argument. The most difficult thing about conversations is that most people have trouble to consider that they could be wrong.

I may be wrong and you might be right, but nothing that was said thus far has been convincing me. So I maintain my position that I will not take this untested vaccine this year. Feel free to take it yourself, though. Willing guinea pigs are always welcome, as far as I am concerned.

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your honestly an idiot the testing is over you retard its so difficult to talk to uneducated people smh

spain should also make a registery of people who play fortnite, that way we can contain the spread of that too.

Appealing to authority isn't an argument, y'know? It's a logical fallacy.

I won't get it and within my personal contacts, no one will get it, either. Some of whom happen to be doctors themselves. If you feel comfortable getting a vaccine in the early stages of testing, good for you. I feel different.

Please do not try to debate a subject you are uneducated in, it makes you look like a fool. if you really cared about your safety you would do research on the vaccine and understand like the majority or us that yes of course they tested in groups. do you not understand how medical studies work? i close relive of mine has already gotten it as he is a doctor and he says he feels stronger. if your not at high risk medically then take the vaccine your just adding to the problem and making it harder to reach heard immunity.

Fair point but i think if anything this encourages people to take it so we can reach heard immunity sooner.

There hasn't been enough time for the thing to get the status of tested. Give it a couple of years. To repeat these runs and see if it even works and for how long.

I still won't be getting it, since my immune system is weak. Always has been. But at that point I'll stop complaining about it being untested.

To test a vaccine you have to actually apply it to a group of humans and then see how well they do a few months down the line. I don't watch news. They are all fake.

Reviewing just the paper is meaningless before the field testing on a large group of people. If the paper stage wasn't satisfactory they wouldn't go ahead, now would they?

Also, how are you supposed to go outside if there's police patrolling the street preventing you from just doing that? Maybe your place is better off than others. But even then, vitamin D is only half the story. The other half is that by being exposed to germs around the year our immune system is stimulated to work. The more clean we make our environment, for example by avoiding other people and thus germs, the less our immune system will have to do around the year and thus be weakened.

I know my immune system is weakened, since I wasn't outside much this year and basically haven't met any humans. I'm certainly not standing in line to get the virus via a vaccine. I made this mistake a long time ago, where I got the flu a week after I got the supposed vaccine against it. Never got that vaccine again and never got the flu again. Go ahead, take the risk to sacrifice your health because you have empathy for me. I'm betting on your herd immunity and not getting this particular vaccine, since I don't want to get sick from a vaccine again. Thanks for your understanding.

if you take the time to review the scientific papers (which im going guess you definitely haven't) you would see there was testing and that it works just fine. its not my fault your a sheep to fox news. the point of herd immunity is that almost everyone will have the vaccine except people at extreme high risk and they will naturally become immune. for example a friend of mine has never gotten vaccinated but was tested for immunity to several illnesses and was immune. herd immunity is a fairly well covered topic generally i shouldn't have to explain it to you. if your this concerned do the research. also if you have lack of vitamin D your just lazy and dont go outside. theres ways to go outside and stay healthy without putting your or other peoples health at risk. the reason i care about other people being vaccinated is because im a decent human and have empathy and i want everyone especially those at high risk who cannot take the vaccine to be safe.