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+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.