Peace be with you, folks.

I really hope Firefox keeps its promise and doesn’t remove uBlock. This browser is built on Gecko, it stands on its own, and it should act like it, too. To hell with Google and Bing.

Hey, honestly I don’t know much about GrapheneOS. I only know it’s available for Google Pixels. But you’re right. All Google-certified devices will be ‘locked down!’

Peace be with you 🌹. I could really feel that this sentence came straight from the heart 😂😂. Jokes aside, same here✋🏻😐. I hate them too.

Thank you for getting back to me. 🌹 I truly believe that many people feel this way. Tragic things happen in life. Believe me, I speak from experience too. Sometimes we walk a certain path, and something terrible happens to us. We wonder, ‘Why did this happen?’ But we’ll never know what would have happened if we had chosen the other path. Perhaps something terrible had to occur to protect us from something even worse. I know this might sound like making excuses sometimes, but I genuinely believe this. And there have been small incidents where I felt this was confirmed.

The fact that you believe God would not love you is, to me, a sign that you still believe in Him😊 and that is something good. Whatever you have experienced in life, or whatever you are going through right now, I wish you strength and all the best. I hope that soon everything will turn around for the better. I will pray for you. I know this sounds clichéd, but I truly mean it. You can always reach out to me whenever you want. Peace be with you. 🕊️🌹

Peace be upon you!🌹

I come from Germany, and at my school, we had English and Turkish. Since you’re about to start learning German, I’ll give you a little heads-up. Watch out for: „der, die, das"! 😂😂😂 Even real Germans sometimes struggle with getting it right!

The USA has just on article „THE" but Germany has three. The positiv thing : Many words in German sound exactly the same like “Hello = Hallo” so that makes things a bit easier.

Good luck with your studies! 😊😊

Peace be upon you. 🌹 As one of those religious people, I can simply say: “No.” 😁

We deeply religious people (whether Muslim, Christian, Jewish, Hindu, or others) simply believe that everything happens through God’s will. However, this does not mean that free will doesn’t exist. You will be rewarded solely for your hard work, Inshallah, because that is your own merit.

You should just keep in mind that the phrase “you should thank God for giving you so much strength” is actually a compliment. It means “God loves you”

Of course, it also depends on how the person expresses this words 😅, but it is something beautiful.

Peace be upon you all🌹🌹🌹

Peace be with you. 🌹So, I’ve been doing without Google for over a year now and use Mojeek. It takes some getting used to, and isn’t as good as well-known search engines, but it’s 100% free from Google and Bing. It has is own crawler and index.

You are welcome☺️

Peace be with you. You are absolutely right. In my early days of exploring “privacy,” I signed up for Reddit because I thought it was independent, but I was truly wrong. Google and Reddit actually have a deal that lets Google train its AI on user posts. It’s wild that Reddit would allow that. I deleted my account immediately. But, im really happy to find a plattform like lemmy.

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Wow… That is touching. My eyes are filling with tears right now. Thank you 🌹🌹.

I can understand how you feel. Therefore, your comment moved me deeply. I am truly glad to find people on Lemmy who think exactly like I do. That means a lot to me. Thanks again. And as the saying goes, hope is the last thing to die ☺️☺️☺️.

Thank you for being great. Ireland appreciates you.

☺️ That’s so sweet. Thank you very much. That really means a lot to me 🌹

Thank you for your comment. I am still new here and inexperienced, so your feedback made me happy and everyone is entitled to their own opinion, and I appreciate you sharing yours with me.😊

I hope the automatic browser translation didn’t confuse you or misrepresent anything. My English isn’t great, so I relied on translation tools hoping you would understand my point.😅

What I was trying to say is basically this: We ‘ordinary people’ possess one of the most powerful weapons we have: boycott. And unlike a gun or other physical weapons, we don’t need to ‘buy’ this weapon. That was the core of my message. Thanks again.

Im Glad to help😊

Hi. Thanks for the comment! The confusion likely comes from the automatic translation of my German page. Sorry.

When I wrote ‘We distort this graphic,’ I didn’t mean that I manually change it. I meant that the browser setting privacy.resistFingerprinting automatically spoofs the Canvas data for you.

So, to answer your question about ‘Item 2’: It refers to enabling privacy.resistFingerprinting = true in Firefox’s about:config.

Once this is active, the browser automatically returns a generic, identical Canvas image to every website, preventing them from creating a unique fingerprint based on your GPU. It’s a built-in feature, not a manual process.

Hope that clears it up.

Please let me know if anything is still unclear or if I made any mistakes. My English isn’t great, so I’m using a translator, and I want to make sure I’m communicating correctly!

You’re welcome 😊

That’s cool. I’m still new to the privacy community, so I only share things I’ve learned. But this is really helpful.

Thank you so much for explaining this in such detail! I’m still quite new to this ‘privacy world’. If there are any mistakes on my site, I’d really appreciate feedback. And I’m trying my best to understand everything, even though my English isn’t great yet 😅😅

First of all, huge respect. I never thought I’d meet someone who has done all this too. I completely share your views on Google and other corporations, they abuse their power and have long crossed ethical boundaries.

I definitely have a few alternatives to share with you. I use the Proton ecosystem, including their email services, their VPN and their AI, Lumo. I stopped using ChatGPT due to Microsoft’s involvement.

In uBlock Origin, under “My filters”, I’ve blocked some of the most important Google services:

||googleapis.com^$important ||gstatic.com^$important ||google-analytics.com^$important ||googletagmanager.com^$important ||www.google.com^$important ||youtube.com^$important ||ytimg.com^$important ||googlevideo.com^$important ||googlesyndication.com^$important ||doubleclick.net^$important ||googleadservices.com^$important ||googleads.g.doubleclick.net^$important ||pagead2.googlesyndication.com^$important ||fonts.gstatic.com^$important ||apis.google.com^$important

Some websites might look visually broken, but they remain usable

For YouTube, I use Invidious instances via the Tor Browser. This gives me much more anonymity.

Also, I’m planning to buy a Fairphone 6 with /e/OS (Murena). A system switch on my current Samsung A53 isn’t really possible, but the Fairphone seems built specifically for these kinds of open systems. I’m excited to see how it works.

And again: Respect! 🙌

Hey there. To be honest, I’m not really familiar with Mullvad myself. But if you’re looking for a good VPN with solid privacy protection, I can recommend Proton VPN.

One small catch: you do need to sign up. But, registration is free and you don’t even need to provide a phone number. Plus, they are based in Switzerland, which offers strong data protection laws outside of the 5/9/14 Eyes alliances.

I use the whole Proton ecosystem, including their email service. Even with the free version, I’m satisfied. In combination with LibreWolf, this provides strong protection. Maybe you could give it a try.