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There are a lot of good reasons to get away from Big Tech. We show you some good substitutes!

My website has grown to 20 categories.

Please check it out. Which important categories and alternatives are missing? What should be removed again?

(I’ve noted earlier feedback to consider removing Proton, Brave, Signal. Which I will try to address by next month.)

I’ve added the controversial topic of AI chatbots. While I think there can’t be truly sustainable options, I think it makes a difference whether you enter your prompts on privacy-threatening, intentionally biased and military supporting providers or with providers who adhere to rules regarding fair use of AI and privacy.

#DitchBigTech #UnplugBigTech #DigitalIndependenceDay #DIDit

  • Leon@pawb.social
    91·
    13 天前

    Feels kind of weird to bring in LLMs when they in their current state are big-tech, unethical, and not sustainable per automatic. It feels like an endorsement, and kind of waters down the rest of the message.

    Also, Brave is none of the things listed on the website. It’s a Ycombinator project, backed by Peter Thiel, and they’ve hijacked affiliate links and such in the past.

    If you want a chromium based browser that’s private and not big tech, then helium or ungoogled chromium would be better bets.

    • Imaginary_Stand4909@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      3·
      13 天前

      Ungoogled Chromium my love. I’ve been using them for years now, both on Windows and Linux and I basically have no complaints.

      For Android, if on Graphene you already have Vanadium! If not, Cromite is also pretty good since it has built in Ad-blocking.

      • Leon@pawb.social
        3·
        13 天前

        For iOS I’d recommend Orion. It has support for regular addons, both Chromium and Mozilla ones, the same ones you’d install on desktop, so you can just install desktop uBlock Origin and have all the benefits of that.

        • Vittelius@feddit.org
          2·
          8 天前

          Orion isn’t Chromium based. It’s based on WebKit. Chromium uses a WebKit-fork called Blink, that’s diverged quite a bit from its origins

          • Leon@pawb.social
            1·
            8 天前

            I am aware of this, and I didn’t say that it was. That doesn’t change the fact that Orion on iOS lets you install desktop addons from either the Google whatever they call it store, or the Firefox addon page. You could probably do it from Microsoft if you’d like, but I don’t get why anyone would go with Chromium addons on account of them being hamstrung.

            You cannot do that with Safari, or Firefox. Addons for Safari on iOS come from the app store, because Apple is garbage.

            WebKit is a fork of KHTML which was built by the KDE project. Orion on Linux uses WebKitGTK as well, but currently doesn’t have support for extensions. A part of me hopes that perhaps some things that the Kagi team develop for Orion on Linux can be ported to Epiphany, because that browser needed addon support years ago.