And then Americans are surprised people aren’t exactly fans of the US… 🤷🤦

Of the internet? Probably not. Of the independent internet? Maybe.

Proton?

My only gripe with this page is that it’s in the browser and it keeps recognising a back gesture (swipe from the edge of the screen) whenever a word starts with q or p.

Shockingly, those are also getting rarer.

Given previous more or less similar projects this is likely to get sued out of existence by Google.

Worked fine for me. Might just have been the first rush.

You can’t possibly have misunderstood the issue so fundamentally, can you?

Why would you not want containers managed by systemd?
You get the benefits of containerisation and you don’t have to learn the arcane syntax of some container engine or another.

No. You need to request your Netflix video, you need to ACK the segments of it you receive and a lot more.
At the very least you’ll need to maintain a detailed whitelist of allowed domains and especially for the manufacturer some packets might he OK, like checking for updates, while others you’ll wanna block.

It’s likely a lot easier to just get a dumb screen and have the smart in a device you control.

Am I too harsh […]?

No. If there’s no way to verify anything then all we have to go on is their word.
The word of a company generally isn’t worth a whole lot. Same with Telegram.

My point. We don’t have code so we have to trust them blindly.

Telegram was never safe. All anyone ever had was their word that some chats are end-to-end encrypted.

I am using a Samsung phone

Well, don’t. I know that’s not immediately helpful, but Samsung is well known for shipping tons of useless bloatware in their Android ROM and not giving a shit about user privacy.
I think it was their CEO who suggested simply not having sensitive conversations within earshot of their Smart-TVs, when it became known that they’re always listening.

Throwing Fairphone into the pot. They’re well supported by LineageOS and have the additional advantage of being user-repairable.
But they only ship inside Europe.

Fuck amazon, though.

Yes.
There used to be a service where you set an amount you paid each month and you could then mark pages/services for donation. At the end of the month your money would be split between all the pages/services you marked.
It was called flattr.
The elegance of this system is that you can set aside an amount of money you’re comfortable spending on art, or whatever you wanna categorise it as. So you’re fully in control of your spending. If videos/songs/articles/things cost a flat amount it’s easy to lose track of the total.

Here’s the complete list of ads I find acceptable:

That is for any and all media.

In an attempt to weasel out of the liability for the woman’s death Disney’s lawyers pulled out the forced arbitration clause of the widower’s Disney+ subscription.
Meaning they’re effectively arguing that because he gives them money to use their service they should be allowed to get away with murder or at least criminal negligence.
I don’t think they’ve realised yet, what a foot-gun this argument is. On top of the obvious moral issues with this line of argument. I mean, this has “give us your firstborn” vibes.