I agree, the reasoning seems rather outdated. Flatpaks are pretty good.
Pherenike
joined 1 year ago
There is absolutely nothing questionable about what he said, that article you linked just says they tried to dig up dirt on him and what they found was ridiculously unscandalous
They use Adblock Plus though. Would not recommend.
It all kinda boils down to the Cambridge Analytica scandal for me. Harvesting people's locations and data, accessing and logging our daily lives is what facilitates mass manipulation of the public's opinion, therefore distorting their view of the world and killing freedom of thought. GAFAM and others are specialists in controlling their users. I ultimately don't want to be profiled, controlled and/or rail-roaded in any aspect of my life.
In this case, you can't have your cake and eat it too.
I tried Thunder, Sync, Liftoff, Boost, and settled on Eternity.
This is the way.
Musicolet, lets you create playlists but it can also create randomized playlists and have multiple queues at the same time. It's not FOSS though, if that's something you care about. But it doesn't even connect to the internet so I don't mind.
Yeah it's practically impossible to completely escape GAFAM unless we renounce 'digital life' or make a humongous effort or whatever. It's about reducing / minimizing the amount of shit they know about us, not being the coolest most degoogled guy in the room. I can't afford to quit my job just because they make me use Microsoft Authenticator. So yeah essentially it's better to use Newpipe than Youtube, what a great thing that some dude or dudette decided to develop it for free, Peertube? Even better, yay options, end of story.
What a fucking joke.
Tetris on Gameboy (around 1993).
And here's your dose of sick corporate hypocrisy of the day.