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diff --git a/gph/2952f9dd.txt b/gph/2952f9dd.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 884418d..0000000 --- a/gph/2952f9dd.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,53 +0,0 @@ -ID: 2952f9dd-80bb-4465-8ca1-9d2bb0ce3a0b -Title: Rant #5 -- Privacy and security - Communities and websites -Authors: Nova[有線魔女] <novaburst@envs.net> -Date: 2021-10-04T00:07:38-00:00 -Date-Edited: 2021-12-15T20:57:10-00:00 -Topics: Rants - -I think it was about fucking time to express why I dislike those kind of things. - -# Their recommendations - -Literally most if not all the things they recommend are inherently wrong. -Some examples : - -* Matrix for decentralized messaging - * Literally wrong, your best bet is XMPP - -* Cloudflare DNS for avoiding Google's DNS (are you kidding me?) - * e.g. this appeared on PrivacyTools' website - -* Using a certain model of smartphones (Google's Pixel phones with some Android spin-off) - * Your best option is to not to use one at all, you can't be private on those devices. - -* Using Firefox and/or Chromium - * Just abandon the modern web at that point, seriously, those two are trash. - -* Using dubious-at-best email providers - * e.g. ProtonMail, Tutanota, CTemplar. Neither of the three respect any standard at all, and the clients are webshit *only* accesible through a browser, and they don't allow the user to use a sane email client. - * Come on, some of the corporate ones even do allow an user to do so, though it's tricky as heck. - -* Using a somewhat less bloated Windows system - * You'll go insane trying to remove spyware on it since the OS itself is spyware. You can't be saved, unless you use a sane OS. - -# Communities - -I was moderator of one in Telegram, and I also was a participant on some other ones on Matrix. -I had really painful experiences in both, and just wanted to never again join any of those rooms. -When for example I've recommended XMPP many times on those rooms, I always got turned down by some Matrix shill, and attacking me with 'ad hominem', what was the response of the admins/mods there? -Nothing, they just keep it going. Only for me to end up going mad. - -# Websites - -Modern web is bad, seriously. Why in the name of fuck you use JavaScript on your website? -Why do you need TONS of those shit only to show some content? -e.g. Techlore's website doesn't load on a sane browser[1] like NetSurf, or text-based browsers. -As for PrivacyTools (now PrivacyGuides since it changed name) it abuses of a pseudo web standard known as HTML5 which of course it won't work on sane browsers. - - -I guess this is all for now, i'll give you some advice, *always* do your own research, don't follow anything blindly without knowing about it, and , most importantly, be conscious of what you're doing. - -Stay safe! - -[1] Well it loads, but the end result ends up being unusable, anyway. |