somebitch1 [she/her]
“Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.” - Tom Lehrer, 1973
You can say that about alot of online services that are alot easier to find and use even if there is risk. This site is fine as some sort of introduction for the terminally online like myself but beyond that I and others here need to pull ourselves together and work where it matters - revolutionary parties, trade union, housing unions, mutual aid societies and pressure groups.
I used to love this open source libre software but it’s not what threatens surveillance capitalism. Lawsuits, regulations and ultimately nationalization will.
It’s not scare quotes. More away to get across my exasperation with people losing their shit when somebody casually uses “open source”.
Your only privacy from ad companies is in the small enclaves of repos and a dwindling file sharing culture. Anything of significance requires an account on facebook or being willing to run zoom. Hexbear and image boards don’t count.
I know you are back peddling in later comments that you misunderstood the posters here but Linux fanboys overall tend to be very pushy seeking nothing less then the global liberation of all computers with “Libre” software.
It’s a huge waste of time. If you want privacy then don’t do anything electronically. Don’t carry a phone with you. It’s not like eight billion people with their own devices running “Libre” software will ever happen in a world where we are trying to contain climate/ecological collapse.
Yeah pluggable transports are a cool adaption to tor censorship.
https://gitlab.torproject.org/legacy/trac/-/wikis/doc/PluggableTransports
Much clearer explanation on the firefox addon page:
"Help people in censored countries bypass censorship by running the Snowflake extension
If you want to help people in censored countries access the Internet without restrictions, consider installing and running the Snowflake extension. Once you install it and enable it, there’s nothing else you need to do. Once the snowflake icon turns green, this means a censored user is connecting through your extension to access the Internet!
The only prerequisite to install this extension is that the Internet in your country is not heavily censored already.
There is no need to worry about which websites people are accessing through your Snowflake extension. Their visible browsing IP address will match their Tor exit node, not yours (since you’re an entrypoint)."