The anti-Big-Tech movement isn't a trend, it's a correction.
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Just switched to Vivaldi from Firefox, seems pretty good.
Also trying out OnlyOffice (Latvian?) office suite of apps and Qwant (French?) search engine - both looking good.
Thinking about ProtonVPN (Swiss?).
The problem is persuading others to change - most of the people I know just keep on using what they were given years ago. MS Windows, MS Office, Outlook, Google …
@gwentlarry @Vivaldi Hmm, I’m Latvian and I’ve never heard of OnlyOffice.
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The anti-Big-Tech movement isn't a trend, it's a correction. Our societies spent 20 years accepting surveillance capitalism as normal. And now, we're slowly remembering we have choices.
Sure, switching browsers is a small thing. But small rebellions are how everything big begins, or so we like to believe.
If you think about those around you, have you noticed an increased awareness lately about what's behind the tech they use?
@Vivaldi I'm only aware of my own increase in awareness of the tech I use. Everyone else I know thinks AI is the bee's knees.
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@gwentlarry @Vivaldi Hmm, I’m Latvian and I’ve never heard of OnlyOffice.
@sirrichard @gwentlarry @Vivaldi
Gwentlarry is on the right track!
A little bad luck with OnlyOffice is all. I've also stepped on that mine. Its a nice product, but from what I've read on Mastodon, its basically Russian and moved their legal seat to Latvia because of reasons you can all guess.
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The anti-Big-Tech movement isn't a trend, it's a correction. Our societies spent 20 years accepting surveillance capitalism as normal. And now, we're slowly remembering we have choices.
Sure, switching browsers is a small thing. But small rebellions are how everything big begins, or so we like to believe.
If you think about those around you, have you noticed an increased awareness lately about what's behind the tech they use?
@Vivaldi Dawg your browser is literally spyware https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/vivaldi
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@TritTriton @user365 @Vivaldi > Even though most of the security-relevant code for Vivaldi browser is in Chromium, there is also some security-relevant code in the UI. If you think that specific security-relevant parts of the UI should be open-sourced to make Vivaldi more trustworthy, let us know, and we’ll consider putting it out as part of our code bundles, so you can check it for yourselves.
That's an unfalsifiable claim without source code access, how can you "check it for yourself" w/o it?
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@Vivaldi Dawg your browser is literally spyware https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/vivaldi
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@TritTriton @user365 @Vivaldi, the small part of the code which is proprietary, but full auditable is the part related to the UI, nothing relevant to the privacy feature, but Chrome and EDGE are very hungry to this part, if they could fork it it would be the end of Vivaldi and all other Chromium browsers.
For Firefox and forks it is easy to be OpenSource, because there isn't any big corporation which use ore made Gecko browsers, not so with Chromiums as by far the most used and used also as base for the worst Data hogs out there.
Vivaldi as the only relevant EU browser and also the most advanced and feature rich existing one, need to protect more than others it's unique features and souvereign against the big global players, for the own existence and the one of others, in a brutal market of almost 100 different browsers and othe 70 which had already lost the battle.
Because this it's pretty irrelevant currently, if a browser is 100% OpenSource or only an 96%, there are more important other points, like the community, the ethics and transparency of the company.
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The anti-Big-Tech movement isn't a trend, it's a correction. Our societies spent 20 years accepting surveillance capitalism as normal. And now, we're slowly remembering we have choices.
Sure, switching browsers is a small thing. But small rebellions are how everything big begins, or so we like to believe.
If you think about those around you, have you noticed an increased awareness lately about what's behind the tech they use?
@Vivaldi you can smell something is awry when they're all paying dowries.
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The anti-Big-Tech movement isn't a trend, it's a correction. Our societies spent 20 years accepting surveillance capitalism as normal. And now, we're slowly remembering we have choices.
Sure, switching browsers is a small thing. But small rebellions are how everything big begins, or so we like to believe.
If you think about those around you, have you noticed an increased awareness lately about what's behind the tech they use?
@Vivaldi Yes, I've been convincing people to use alternative apps ,browsers, and have installed GrapheneOS on Pixels. People are finding ways around this surveillance via adblockers, VPNS, and these alternative and FOSS options. We need to change gears and push these tech oligarchs out, because as we saw at the inauguration, they've openly chosen to support fascism and the surveillance state, thinking they're too powerful to face repercussions.
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The anti-Big-Tech movement isn't a trend, it's a correction. Our societies spent 20 years accepting surveillance capitalism as normal. And now, we're slowly remembering we have choices.
Sure, switching browsers is a small thing. But small rebellions are how everything big begins, or so we like to believe.
If you think about those around you, have you noticed an increased awareness lately about what's behind the tech they use?
@Vivaldi Switching browser is not a small thing. For most non-mobile users it is a tough decission not to be taken lightly. And something that needs a determination. As for the awareness of the state of permeating inviglilation it is there, but it is being supressed, as something one can do nothing about. Of course old nerds possibly can, "but not me". That is my impression, an anecdata of some dozen of talks.
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