Nice work, man!

Personally I try to use as less Google as possible.

Does anybody know if / how Iridium support add-ons?

Didn't realise there was so many alternatives to stuff people use on a daily basis, going to bookmark a few of these and start using them and throw Google out of my life, as I already have with the main social medias.

A great guide to this forum.

I'll check it out thanks.

I've wanted to do this as well. Figured though if you weren't on anyone's radar before, then you will be now. I was a bit taken back when I deleted all my social media accounts earlier in the year and downloaded the data that they had collected on me. I'm sure the alphabet boys have more, though I'm not sure what all they'd share.

a good introduction into why PDFs are insecure: they have their own javascript and actionscript api that can run code inside of a PDF. it's basically not exaggerating an executable document format.

PDFs are the world's most dangerous file format: https://v2.incogtube.com/watch?v=54XYqsf4JEY

I was going to link to something similar. As someone who has a lot of PDF ebooks, let me ask a 'newb question' of my own: Is there a good way to convert them and their contents into a safer format for sharing?

PDFs are the world's most dangerous file format: https://v2.incogtube.com/watch?v=54XYqsf4JEY

Meant to make you give up.

FBI eFOIA portal. The FBI happens to be pretty infamous for its long drawn-out response times, which is something I found out after I submitted my request.

FFS that's a really long time. I figured it'd be a matter of months, not years.

How did you submit your request?

If they don't have anything on you, they'll let you know within a month. If they do, though, they will take their sweet time providing records... I have an open request that has been processing for 2+ years now.

You can install it and help indexing web, or you can use public instances :)

I use Brave , much quicker than DDG

I tested it out and like it!

I use "gaytranny" browser, just search it.

Ni ether work good, altabista worked better 20 years ago.

and none of them do shit though. Its just a fake place that says they do something to scare people off.

oh see this how js used, frequent client update is a plus

I use a notepad with pen and paper but have a way of using them that make them more secure. As a simple example X means K, and a lot of other stuff. Also burning accounts monthly, no reason not to.

Nobody uses email so who cares.

Searx is the best right now because it has good results (proxied from Google) but prevents tracking. I'm using https://search.disroot.org/

EDIT: Disroot search is blocked by CAPTCHA again, switched to https://searx.be

I use KeePass and Keepass2Android synced with Nextcloud because it is open source, but I might self-host Bitwarden and switch to that soon.

I've never had any issues with Protonmail no, but I wouldn't trust them with sensitive information, Secmail is a TOR email provider I have used for a long time, and never encountered any problem unlike with SIGIANT when that was around.

I'll happily use protonmail for clear web activity and a TOR email provider for my TOR activity, which I do anyway.

Sorry if that wasn't clear enough.

Yacy is probably the best followed by Searx although not if you're on Whonix which makes the usage of Yacy (and I'm guessing Searx too) insecure. If you aren't on Whonix and you want good results, you could locally host your Searx instance and adjust the search targets to your liking. This would also be your most private choice since it's

• open source and you don't have to trust a website to actually deploy what you advertise
• you can route it over Tor (alas, I didn't check how) or just morty which will sanitize your searches

P.S. Yes I know Searx is technically a metasearch engine, but hey, it gets the search done.

KeePassXC because I made... ehm... this (with some lovely people). Though I literally only use it for ssh and never store my passwords digitally.