Really liking Vivaldi so far. The baked in adblocking and encrypted syncing is neat. Everybody also always recommends Brave as “good out of the box” where you can use it straight away without any tinkering…
Don’t ask, test and answer for yourself. Do fingerprint and security checks and see what comes out best.
I use Brave and uBlock. It does better when tested than all the others, including Vanadium, which SHOULD be besting them all. Firefox has come in second but still can’t stop it from bring fingerprinted regardless of what I do to it, that includes its spinoffs. Brave passes them all with its default config.
What’s funny about that, is although I try to never shop at crap Kroger, sometimes its just easier, I noticed once when I wanted to check something for being in stock, I couldn’t view their website with my VPN up, didn’t matter the server. I said, they’re dataming something! Why would a read only website like that even care… I now know why.
I’m sure that this won’t primarily impact the most vulnerable in society, whilst the fraction of actual fraudsters just change tact. I’m also sure that’s not the point of this legislation.
This is in the UK, and about all benefits, not just pensions, but yeah, your hunch isn't far off - this is being implemented out of sheer cruelty, not out of any justifiable financial reason.
They will if I don’t sound paranoid and can give rational answers backed up with real articles that aren’t conspiracy sites. Much of my family are teachers, everyone has at least one university degree, and is capable of rational thought and critical thinking. They just don’t see a reason to switch. I need to put forward a reason that is worth their time.
My way around the issue with the app and its collection is :
Install in a separate profile with empty everything. (So they get an empty contact list)
Install beeper in a different profil and connect WhatsApp to beeper.
Remove all permissions from WhatsApp. There if I need to reconnect sometime.
Oh and using fake number is also a good idea. And yes not as good as selfhosting I know. Signal is an option if you can get them to switch. Telegram is crap.
Until now, YT videos works flawless in SMplayer and MotionBox Browser, the last one is IMHO the best desktop client for nearly all streaming platforms, only drawback is a bad and not very intuitive UI.
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