It's interesting to me, the more people who have turned against religious practices that kept them orderly the further this goes along, it has drawn me more in.
"There is no history to this character, it's entirely a literary creation"........ literally Roman state records say otherwise. You might disagree that a Jesus of Nazareth was a divine being, but there is no historical disagreement that a Jesus of Nazareth existed in that era.
Btw, all but one of his apostles all died horrendous deaths because they refuse to denounce him. And there are non-Christian writings backing that up.
"The Romans needed to subdue the Jews' religion"... ya, because Rome had such a history of destroying rival religions. They totally didn't constantly incorporate foreign religions into their own, even accepting outside deities as Roman ones as well. Nope. Never happened.
And there are so many more basic misconceptions, like judging early Christendom origins based on the modern perceptions of Jesus the "nice guy" (nice guys don't get crucified).
"They totally didn't constantly incorporate foreign religions into their own, even accepting outside deities as Roman ones as well. Nope. Never happened."
You mean like a messianic cult?
"There are non-Christian writings backing that up."
You mean like Josephus Flavius?
I get it. I probably would have written something like this a few years ago. Christianity relies on Old Testament teachings and Old Testament relies on the Canaanite deities.
"Render unto Caesar, that which is Caesar's" - a great passage that teaches all of us to submit to the state.
I've used it to download most of last week's videos from RSBN, Epoch, NTD, and a few streamers. The free version gets you 30 vidoes a day, which is enough for me.
Looks like Gab is trying to make "its own internet" with alternatives to everything including YouTube. You can go to "google takeout"... not linking their stuff anymore.. all your original video files (resolution you uploaded) will be archived in 2gb - 50 gb (you choose) zips and available to download.
Just grabbed all of mine and will be mirroring those to Gab, regardless of any sort of monetization...but I'd love to build my audience there as well.
Operation Flood the Cave (yes, I picked that name on purpose): Since most of us can't just delete everything, what if we do the opposite. Can people more tech savvy than me start making programs we can use to absolutely flood the fuck out of Apple and Google with DATA so it renders their meta data and pattern prediction useless? I want a program that will just search for random things, visit random sites, maybe make them think I'm on a road trip... if they want to collect data, let's give them more than they can handle.
This is basically what the browser plugin ad nauseum was designed to do. Instead of restricting what data you give them, just flood them with bad data. It's much harder to deal with.
There's another one as well that will visit random sites for you in the background. I forget the name but it's out there.
Ad nauseum was censored very heavily by Google btw, proving its worth imo.
Doesn't this mean they're just making an assload of money because every ad is being clicked? I'd rather starve them. Unless there's some other intention of that extension I'm missing.
long-term, no, because their data on consumers will become worthless. Instead of seeing that you're a 20 year old male interested in electronics, health care products, and trap music, you'll be a 20 year old male interested in everything so their advantage of targeted advertising will be destroyed.
That makes sense, long game rather than short game. I suppose it's better than them having a small amount of accurate date on you as well. Right now, they may have a low amount of data since I use UBlock Origin but from the data they do have, they probably know we all support Trump etc. and at the rate this is going, that will make for good doxing once they decide to come for all of us.
People would rather pay their monthly Netflix subscriptions and cable bill than donate money to companies trying to build alternatives. That's the problem. Heaven forbid they stop staring at a TV screen a few hours less every day.
My folks have a Netflix sub so I can watch it for free. Though I haven't watched Netflix for several years.
I've never had a cable or satellite subscription. Watching TV is like sitting there while the ad agencies and Hollywood tell you what a complete imbecile you are.
My folks have a Netflix sub so I can watch it for free. Though I haven't watched Netflix for several years.
I've never had a cable or satellite subscription. Watching TV is like sitting there while the ad agencies and Hollywood tell you what a complete imbecile you are.
Best path as of now is probably not buying a ready-to-go phone like pine or whatever, but maybe buying a decent cheap phone thats got decent specs and not chinese, and installing lineage or some variant OS on. Then work through the pain of the pros and cons of daily usage. Have your current phone as is in the meantime until the other is functional to a good degree. Maybe keep the other phone and have it turned off. Seems like a HUGE market now with demand at all time high for non android and apple shit.
Just buy refurbished. That and don't spend a fortune for something like a phone. Nobody on here talking about MAGA needs to be spending upwards of a grand on a god damn iPhone.
Buy used lat Gen phones off of eBay. I got my LG V40 used for a fraction of the price of new. It is completely paid off and works great. This was bought to replace my g4 that was used for many, many years. I would still be using it, but some apps needed for my recent move would not function because it was so old.
The reason it sucks balls is the software is still have assed. Hopefully there will be a surge in interest and a revenue stream to entice developers incoming.
Working on flashing a few different OS's until I find out what is working best. Mobian is my favorite so far. Here are the listed issues/what's working
I have those as well, on Waterfox. I'd also add a good VPN. I have used Mullvad for years. They are in Sweden, outside of 5eyes, which is also the home of The Pirate Bay, which has remained up for over 10 years . . .
No, I haven't. I was on Hide My Ass until their fiasco (gave out info they said they didn't log on a user). After that, I researched more carefully and I've been on Mullvad since I found them. I personally would not use a US based VPN. Proton is Swiss based. I did use SwissVPN for a while. Proton seems ok just glancing at it.
Most people don't realize that tor isn't completely private. FBI, NSA, CIA control a large portion of tor exit nodes. If they want to find someone who is using tor for privacy, they can easily identify them. Darknet market users are routinely identified and arrested.
So Brave is more secure in that regard? Obviously we have to be careful what we choose to access on the internet. My web surfing habits are pretty benign.
What we really need is something like a Russian tor. As you say, the NSA control enough of the exit nodes that they can identify users. It still suits the purposes of CIA spies because other countries can't compromise it, only the US. Something similar but controlled by Russia would be ideal because who cares if they can identify us as long as the US government can't?
But I doubt there exists such a thing, although there should.
Yep. Everything has to go through the internet. Most encryption has back doors for the government, even your keyboard and operating systems are spying on you. There is no privacy with digital anymore.
Brave browser, it's actually one of few conservative tech projects that has been an unqualified success. It's way better than Firefox or any other browser. I can't recommend it enough.
It's not a conservative tech project, btw. Check out the people who build it. Dissenter from Gab actually is a conservative project, with a Chromium source, so it's preferable imo.
Praying President Trump presents us with a multitude of good alternatives soon. I think proton mail is at least “safe” and starting to create venues. Unfortunately our city is very lacking in infrastructure atm. Pretty sure they know that. I feel your pain, believe me I do.
I have one with manjaro. So far I would say not that tech savvy. Be careful opening the backplate when it first arrives (necessary to insert a sim, sd card, and get the battery working). Otherwise my biggest issue with it is the software is clunky and it basically works a half baked desktop OS masquerading as a mobile OS. Touch response is bad, UI is ok-ish, but some functions are really weird and it goes schizo every now and then.
Definitely not as good of an experience as even a gen1 iphone was, but it's got a lot going for it in terms of privacy that Google and apple don't.
You don't need to program anything, but you do need to know how to administer linux. Pinephone has some issues and I wouldn't call it a daily driver yet.
Linux is not something that just works. You will need to know at least a basic level of linux admin and command line (bash) for if something starts going wrong. There's a lot of documentation for most problems that can arise. Unfortunately GUIs are one of the biggest sources of problems on Linux. Which is why it's primarily use is on servers with no GUI.
I have one. It works, the hardware and build quality seem fine. Manjaro is awful though and it feels like uses a slow, shitty version of desktop Linux on your phone. It still needs work but I suggest supporting them anyway because the hardware is cool and I value privacy over the latest features.
Lolno it actually encourages people to stop using YT. People that search it already use it. If they find this out is more likely to decrease YT activity. Maybe you're the stupid one, don't realize Google owns YT?
lol. It encourages people to stop using YT? You have no idea. Funny, all I see is more usage. Infact, the more 'outrage' and more 'Howto', the more views. It works about as well a a youtube video that tells you how to make more money.
This is the route I went a few years ago. MicroG with Aurora store gives full anonymous access to Google's play store (dont forget to vpn as well). Bromite is also a badass browser with built-in add blocking similar to ublock. Youtube-vanced is pretty good too for add-free YouTube usage. After flashing lineageos, nanodroid makes it pretty easy to install everything. I have the same setup on my kid's tablets too.
Its not the easiest thing to setup but once its running, it is as close as you can get to a full on Google ecosystem without touching their auth servers. Pinephone looks pretty good too as I'm a huge KDE fan.
I haven't in a few years, now I really don't feel bad about all the shit I pirated in my youth, and I am thinking I might take this up as a hobby again just fuck over TPTB. Thanks for the suggestion.
That was pretty much why I quit to begin with, the movies sucked and I can't think of anything I would want to pirate. Now as a political action maybe we should just start pirating anything new and disseminating it to the masses just to hurt the box office/streaming revenue.
lol I just invested in a NAS server that I had been contemplating doing for years but was happy with services. Now my sentiment for the new year has been. Fuck I don't care about giving these people my money anymore. now the only money I spend is for a no log VPN which is much cheaper than all of those if you buy in 1-2 year terms.
Posting this on Google may be ironic, but it doesn't make it untrue.
If anyone wants to take practical measures to either completely de-google themselves or just close up some privacy loopholes, watch videos from youtube user TheHatedOne.
Im very close to being 100% free of google and although you have to relearn some things and endure some minor inconveniences, it is unimaginably liberating.
Purge your mail, contacts, files whatever... but leave the mailbox open and forward emails to your protonmail so that you can see what services are still tied to gmail.
Also this will prevent someone else from taking your old identity and abusing it in some way!
People should honestly just delete their computers. Everything about them is infected with liberals. Every piece of it is built by a bunch of communist hippies on the coasts. Big tech, including Linux and the hardware (all owned and paid for by big tech) is rotten to its core. There is no freedom and no one owns their computers anymore. Computers will be how they control each and every one of us. Just being on this site gives them enough leverage.
I don't have any evidence, so this is just speculation on my part (but, hey, that's enough for liberals, so what I'm saying must be true, right?), but when your computer/laptop/phone "sleeps", does it "dream"?
People have been lead to believe that it is some power saving mode, but I just have to question if there is more to labeling the mode "sleep mode" than people recognize.
When humans sleep, we are capable of being influenced to some degree, and, in some circumstances, information can be gained (sleep talking, etc.). Now, it doesn't matter to what degree people are affected by this, as it is only needed as an example, but... if your computer is in "sleep" mode, is it still capable of transmitting data if a backdoor is accessed? Can the minimal power mode allow for a very slow trickle of information over the net?
Again, I don't know what safeguards we have against such things, but considering that certain parts of the system are not completely off, I just have to wonder if there is some method by which computers are compromised in that manner.
Well... if your computer is “sleeping” it has powered down the hard drives and processor and is keeping power to your memory that holds your OS and everything you were doing in RAM. Some controllers and power monitoring stuff runs but in general no it doesn’t “dream”. It’s controlled by hardware so the OS is “off” until
You resume. That said there’s a lot of things going on in power management and it’s completely possible for your computer to wake up and do stuff. But it’s not a big concern really. I have a computer science degree and have contributed to the Linux kernel before :)
There is a lot to unpack about managing computers in an operationally secure manner. It /can/ be done but it is very hard.
Mozilla is truely run by libtards. I'd like to switch to GNU Icecat, but boy, oh, boy, does GNU not make it easy to install that browser on mac OSX or even newbie linux distros such as Ubuntu without a PPA. Even after adding the PPA, I get error messages about a key missing. UGH
You can get your data deleted. It’s not hard. Especially due to systems Europe made them set up “right to be forgotten”. I’ve tried reactivating my account and it failed (a couple years after deleting it). I only used Facebook for a couple of years anyhow. Saw all this coming a long time ago.
If you think that information is deleted, you are extremely naive.
Edward Snowden warned us about Google and Microsoft doing this nearly a decade ago and they have never stopped. They are entities of the deepstate and their databases are basically the Senate Intelligence Committee's and FISA court's playground.
They do maintain some level of shadow profiles on people they have never even used Facebook before. You exist in their system even if you don’t want to and never created an account. They even have sophisticated advertising profiles on you. Still, they are obligated by law to delete your data and tell you everything they have. If they don’t do it, that’s in them but I am not such a cynic that I don’t think at least that part works. Shadow profiles and them keeping some data about you and your place in the social network graph is stuff EU has sued them over numerous times. 🤷♀️
This guy has good videos but be careful of his queer politics. He's super anti brave because the founder was donating to Christian groups that were "anti butt pumping"
Brave was making my credit union and amazon have to verify it's me every time with an email or text message. They send me warnings that someone is trying to log into my account with a Chrome desktop (I'm on a windows laptop).
Sometimes I get messed up with very few sites and then I just do shields down. I actually am in the process of canceling my Amazon card for this reason.
No, the Google build of Android and GAPPS collect your data 24/7.
Since Android is Open Source licensed, plenty of non-Google people have worked out operating system branches that work on "Android Devices" without running Google's shitty, big brother OS.
All this has finally motivated me to move more away from big tech. Dumped a while ago netflix, backing up facebook contacts and will be deleting that soon, never had an iphone, I don't use chrome anymore, and something I've really been meaning to do for years:
I'm a gamer so Windows it is but I might do a dual boot to Xubuntu......I will at least keep a bootable USB for emergencies. I was 100% Linux for 5 years before I got back into gaming.
Yes. Close you google account and stop using all Google services. I support this. Just know that everything you have ever done or posted where you have used a google service, and google service, is saved FOREVER. You can back up, move, delete, close, etc. but the fact is that the data all belongs to Google and they keep it forever. "Terms of Service"! But, get off now and stay off. Figure out how to live without Google. It's very good advice.
I'm currently using google cloud for offsite storage backups. I pay 10$ a month for 2TB. Can anybody recommend me a good alternative that's a user friendly as google drive?
I don't know how friendly gulag drive is because I've never used it, but I just started using Protonmail's pCloud and I like it. Swiss privacy laws might be useful.
If you watch YouTube videos, and are an Android user, I highly suggest looking at 'youtube vanced' (vancedapp dot com). It blocks all preroll, midroll, and postroll ads, allows for a dark theme, blocks sponsor ads, community posts, allows you to set comment section as old or new style...been using it about a year now and love it. FUCK THEIR AD REVENUE!!
I find it sad and funny how many of us cannot seem to understand what it takes to "De-Google" your life.
There is no preference box or product you can buy that will keep this corporation out of your life.
You MUST build a life that does not require internet connectedness to provide you with food, water, warmth when it is cold, relief when it is hot, entertainment and connection when you are lonely.
De-Google your life by playing an instrument with others and no longer using a cell phone or bringing it with you. If you like taking pictures, bring a phone w no contract and no connectivity and use it for taking pictures and videos you can upload later from home.
De-Google your life by doing business in person; reading paper books; buying what you need from people who make what you need as directly as possible or making it yourself.
Pay with cash. Barter. Make your life as independent as possible from anything digital or electronic.
When the lights start going out in a years time to punish political dissenters, you will be fine for the most part.
For those with android devices, here are some tips:
Because Android OS is open-source, there are community-made versions of Android that are not tied to Google or other big companies. Such versions are usually stripped of bloatware and have better privacy. LineageOS is one example. You can "degoogle" your android device without ditching Android. Here's what you need to learn, in that order:
Step 1: How to unlock bootloader (required for Step 2)
Step 2: How to flash custom recovery like TWRP (makes Step 3 easier)
Great post. I've been busying myself the whole weekend removing myself from big tech's grasp. No point in whining about their power while continuing to support them because of "convenience".
Steps I have taken already taken or will take this weekend:
Deleted my Twitter account
Deleted Facebook
Deleted WhatsApp and installed Signal and Threema
Deleted my Gmail accounts and installed proton mail
Protonmail seems to be good so far. I got it last month (pay version). They also have a VPN, which I haven't tried yet, and a cloud service that I uploaded a few videos to. Seems to work ok, but who knows how private these things really are.
Frens got any tips for ripping videos off YouTube? Brave browser cucked for google and uses their playstore, which doesnt allow youtube video ripper extensions.
Warning on Chrome extensions and YouTube⊗
Unfortunately, the Chrome Web Store does not allow extensions for downloading YouTube videos so we could not include this feature in the Chrome version of the extension.
You can use Video DownloadHelper to download YouTube videos on the Firefox version.
Chromium-based mobile browsers like Brave usually dont have plugin-support at all. But for Android there is NewPipe (a youtube-app alternative which works without Googles APIs) and YMusic (a music player), they allow downloads from youtube.
Anyone here use Signal app? Was just recommended to me, and seems like the right idea but when you goto signal.org the first fucking thing you see is mister buttplug himself Jack Dorsey. not exactly sure of it’s security measures anymore
Been using it for over a year now. It’s a lot like WhatsApp, but with lots of bugs/glitches. End to end encryption, audio video calling, groups. Overall seems to work alright, and at least it’s not owned by Facebook.
Whilst the irony of watching a youtube video about how to get google out of your life is hilarious. It is also the only place where people who want to degoogle might see it. It's a selling ice to eskimos thing. You don't do a bitchute video about cutting google out.
No, since Tutanota uses encryption there is no ability to use third-party email clients. You'll need to use their (Tutanota's) app or login via a web browser.
Standalone GPS (Garmin, etc) with internal sets of maps, like before Google maps existed.
I've also been using CoPilot for android, which works the same way, except you can use it on your phone. Maps are cheap, and accurate, and the app works as advertised without any unnecessary issues.
Unlink everything used with Google passthrough auth and use a password manager to keep track of individual passwords for each site. Cumbersome, I know.
Ironkey is a physical device with a hardware encryption chip that encrypts the contents. There are online services you can use that will store your information in an encrypted container that can only be accessed by a password that you hold. When you go to access the container, its first downloaded (in encrypted form) to your device, then decrypted there with your password. When you're done with the file, it gets re-encrypted (on the device) and saved back to the cloud. If you lose the password, no one, including the company, and you, will be able to get your data. No take-backs or un-dos.
If you want control over your own info locally, and not use a cloud-based third party service, then you can either use a hardware device, as you mentioned, or roll your own version of a software encrypted file vault like KeePass, for account management, or well-vetted encryption software like VeraCrypt to store other files, on your own storage that you keep physically secure.
What a fucking joke. Yes, i'm sure google needs your consent or some account to store data about you.
Realitycheck: Almost every site injects google into your browser, so google knows every single website you visit. Even this site requires google to register an account, so google knows everyone who has an account here.
Can you block this shit with stuff like ublock? Yeah, and it works most of the time. Problem is.... uh.... sites like TDW. Or you know: People posting commietube-links.
But hey, fixing that requires work, responsibility and understanding. No "remove gulag in three easy steps"-clickbait.
Which part about "work, responsibility and understanding" did you miss?
There is no easy solution. It can be fixed, but it requires work and cooperation. Why doesn't TDW start with its own site, by replacing recaptcha with something else, so google can no longer track users?
Oh the irony
Well, I mean why make a video about de-googling to people who have de-googled?
It's interesting to me, the more people who have turned against religious practices that kept them orderly the further this goes along, it has drawn me more in.
Jonah? Is that you?
Tom Holland's book "Dominion" is great reading to remind us what Christianity really is/has been.
Jonathan Pageau's videos have been great.
https://youtu.be/zmEScIUcvz0
Thanks for the link
Wha????
"There is no history to this character, it's entirely a literary creation"........ literally Roman state records say otherwise. You might disagree that a Jesus of Nazareth was a divine being, but there is no historical disagreement that a Jesus of Nazareth existed in that era.
Btw, all but one of his apostles all died horrendous deaths because they refuse to denounce him. And there are non-Christian writings backing that up.
"The Romans needed to subdue the Jews' religion"... ya, because Rome had such a history of destroying rival religions. They totally didn't constantly incorporate foreign religions into their own, even accepting outside deities as Roman ones as well. Nope. Never happened.
And there are so many more basic misconceptions, like judging early Christendom origins based on the modern perceptions of Jesus the "nice guy" (nice guys don't get crucified).
"They totally didn't constantly incorporate foreign religions into their own, even accepting outside deities as Roman ones as well. Nope. Never happened."
You mean like a messianic cult?
"There are non-Christian writings backing that up."
You mean like Josephus Flavius?
I get it. I probably would have written something like this a few years ago. Christianity relies on Old Testament teachings and Old Testament relies on the Canaanite deities.
"Render unto Caesar, that which is Caesar's" - a great passage that teaches all of us to submit to the state.
and posting on a Google owned platform.
I thought this immediately. I don't know how to repost to bitchute or whatever platform isn't cucked, eli5?
Download the video and upload it.
I use https://www.4kdownload.com/
I've used it to download most of last week's videos from RSBN, Epoch, NTD, and a few streamers. The free version gets you 30 vidoes a day, which is enough for me.
Awesome thank you anon
Looks like Gab is trying to make "its own internet" with alternatives to everything including YouTube. You can go to "google takeout"... not linking their stuff anymore.. all your original video files (resolution you uploaded) will be archived in 2gb - 50 gb (you choose) zips and available to download.
Just grabbed all of mine and will be mirroring those to Gab, regardless of any sort of monetization...but I'd love to build my audience there as well.
Hijacking top comment to share https://NoMoreGoogle.com which lists alternative services for all sorts of Google services.
HighJacking u /s
It"s simple go w/ Graphene OS, learn more from Techlore videos. Used for months love it.
Thanks for that, I may find a used Pixel to try it out.
Sad how cucked shit like Firefox and safari are at the top
Sadly they are the only other option if you don't want to use Chromium. Brave is probably the best alternative right now.
Are you me? Did I write this?
Great minds think alike
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/01/want-blood-mozilla-argues-must-done-rid-internet-president-trump-bad-actors/
Firefox is still on that list. lol
Firefox is cucked.
right?
That would be inconvenient. This is why we lose.
This is why I stopped caring about this stuff. There will never be critical mass if things are somewhat working for everyone.
Operation Flood the Cave (yes, I picked that name on purpose): Since most of us can't just delete everything, what if we do the opposite. Can people more tech savvy than me start making programs we can use to absolutely flood the fuck out of Apple and Google with DATA so it renders their meta data and pattern prediction useless? I want a program that will just search for random things, visit random sites, maybe make them think I'm on a road trip... if they want to collect data, let's give them more than they can handle.
This is basically what the browser plugin ad nauseum was designed to do. Instead of restricting what data you give them, just flood them with bad data. It's much harder to deal with.
There's another one as well that will visit random sites for you in the background. I forget the name but it's out there.
Ad nauseum was censored very heavily by Google btw, proving its worth imo.
Awesome, this is what I wanted to know. Thank you.
Doesn't this mean they're just making an assload of money because every ad is being clicked? I'd rather starve them. Unless there's some other intention of that extension I'm missing.
long-term, no, because their data on consumers will become worthless. Instead of seeing that you're a 20 year old male interested in electronics, health care products, and trap music, you'll be a 20 year old male interested in everything so their advantage of targeted advertising will be destroyed.
That makes sense, long game rather than short game. I suppose it's better than them having a small amount of accurate date on you as well. Right now, they may have a low amount of data since I use UBlock Origin but from the data they do have, they probably know we all support Trump etc. and at the rate this is going, that will make for good doxing once they decide to come for all of us.
The irony is your comment.
And he posts it on Google lol
This is exactly where people need to see it though.
Librem 5 sucks balls. Plenty of lengthy reviews out there. I wish there were better phones out there tho
People would rather pay their monthly Netflix subscriptions and cable bill than donate money to companies trying to build alternatives. That's the problem. Heaven forbid they stop staring at a TV screen a few hours less every day.
My folks have a Netflix sub so I can watch it for free. Though I haven't watched Netflix for several years.
I've never had a cable or satellite subscription. Watching TV is like sitting there while the ad agencies and Hollywood tell you what a complete imbecile you are.
My folks have a Netflix sub so I can watch it for free. Though I haven't watched Netflix for several years.
I've never had a cable or satellite subscription. Watching TV is like sitting there while the ad agencies and Hollywood tell you what a complete imbecile you are.
I think the best option is go android without stock google apps
Because it's hard to make a phone from scratch.
Best path as of now is probably not buying a ready-to-go phone like pine or whatever, but maybe buying a decent cheap phone thats got decent specs and not chinese, and installing lineage or some variant OS on. Then work through the pain of the pros and cons of daily usage. Have your current phone as is in the meantime until the other is functional to a good degree. Maybe keep the other phone and have it turned off. Seems like a HUGE market now with demand at all time high for non android and apple shit.
Just buy refurbished. That and don't spend a fortune for something like a phone. Nobody on here talking about MAGA needs to be spending upwards of a grand on a god damn iPhone.
Used iPhones are still in the ballpark of 700-800, however you take the money out of apples hands buying used from someone
I'm thinking of ditching smart phones entirely.
lG and Samsung are made in Korea
Still run android.
Buy used lat Gen phones off of eBay. I got my LG V40 used for a fraction of the price of new. It is completely paid off and works great. This was bought to replace my g4 that was used for many, many years. I would still be using it, but some apps needed for my recent move would not function because it was so old.
The reason it sucks balls is the software is still have assed. Hopefully there will be a surge in interest and a revenue stream to entice developers incoming.
Own a Pinephone myself. Working on the transition as we speak
Working on flashing a few different OS's until I find out what is working best. Mobian is my favorite so far. Here are the listed issues/what's working
https://wiki.mobian-project.org/doku.php?id=pinephone
Yup. You send a physician to the sick not the healthy.
But you quarantine the healthy and not the sick in todays clown medicine world!
If you are trying to degoogle, you don't start by using google. At least, I didn't.
Where else would he post it? This is where people need to see it.
Yes.... It's for people who needs to de-googlefy....
Brave browser
and add "Ublock Origin" and "Privacy Badger"
I have those as well, on Waterfox. I'd also add a good VPN. I have used Mullvad for years. They are in Sweden, outside of 5eyes, which is also the home of The Pirate Bay, which has remained up for over 10 years . . .
Nice addition to the thread, thanks!!
If all this is running on a phone built by Google or Apple, or at least Apple or Google OS, does it even matter?
Ever tried ProtonVPN?
No, I haven't. I was on Hide My Ass until their fiasco (gave out info they said they didn't log on a user). After that, I researched more carefully and I've been on Mullvad since I found them. I personally would not use a US based VPN. Proton is Swiss based. I did use SwissVPN for a while. Proton seems ok just glancing at it.
I use it for desktop. Seems to drain my phone battery quicker. The speed has gotten much better over the past year or so. I'm no tech expert though
Privacy Badger is redundant on Brave, using it can harm privacy.
Tor is probably better but Brave is solid.
Brave has built in Tor support
True. Forgot about that.
Most people don't realize that tor isn't completely private. FBI, NSA, CIA control a large portion of tor exit nodes. If they want to find someone who is using tor for privacy, they can easily identify them. Darknet market users are routinely identified and arrested.
So Brave is more secure in that regard? Obviously we have to be careful what we choose to access on the internet. My web surfing habits are pretty benign.
What we really need is something like a Russian tor. As you say, the NSA control enough of the exit nodes that they can identify users. It still suits the purposes of CIA spies because other countries can't compromise it, only the US. Something similar but controlled by Russia would be ideal because who cares if they can identify us as long as the US government can't?
But I doubt there exists such a thing, although there should.
TOR is a honeypot.
Pus add blokada app to get rid of ads (select Energized Blu)
TOR for me
TOR with the Govt exit nodes...yea real safe.
You’re fooling yourself if you think the government doesn’t have access to everything, regardless of how hard you try to hide it.
Yep. Everything has to go through the internet. Most encryption has back doors for the government, even your keyboard and operating systems are spying on you. There is no privacy with digital anymore.
this I know, your IP can always be traced no matter how many hopes or vpns you use.
So what do you recommend ?
I've been using dissenter from gab and brave. They might be using the same framework, I dunno. I'm also no security expert.
Degoogled Chromium
ungoogled-chromium
https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium
Is Epic Browser that the best choice right now?
Brave browser, it's actually one of few conservative tech projects that has been an unqualified success. It's way better than Firefox or any other browser. I can't recommend it enough.
I just started using it, seems good so far
It's not a conservative tech project, btw. Check out the people who build it. Dissenter from Gab actually is a conservative project, with a Chromium source, so it's preferable imo.
I second this, it’s actually much faster than chrome, eats up way less memory.
My current list Places to avoid (due to censor and deplatform)
pinterest labels Christian content as pornography.
Netflix thinks pedophilia is a religion and should be respected.
The Pinterest info was new. Thanks for the heads up!
Pornography for the soul?
Rotten Tomatoes is the equivalent of the 2020 election. Critic AND viewerscores are all doctored en masse
They go all out to protect SJW propaganda films.
Do you have a good mailchimp alternative? I found a few but haven't made a final decision yet on where to move our business to.
Praying President Trump presents us with a multitude of good alternatives soon. I think proton mail is at least “safe” and starting to create venues. Unfortunately our city is very lacking in infrastructure atm. Pretty sure they know that. I feel your pain, believe me I do.
Protonmail is so safe that Pence's and Paul Ryan's communications over it were leaked to the world.
Score!
FWIW, ctemplar seems ok, but you're always taking a risk with other people running your email.
Pinephone
I have one with manjaro. So far I would say not that tech savvy. Be careful opening the backplate when it first arrives (necessary to insert a sim, sd card, and get the battery working). Otherwise my biggest issue with it is the software is clunky and it basically works a half baked desktop OS masquerading as a mobile OS. Touch response is bad, UI is ok-ish, but some functions are really weird and it goes schizo every now and then.
Definitely not as good of an experience as even a gen1 iphone was, but it's got a lot going for it in terms of privacy that Google and apple don't.
You don't need to program anything, but you do need to know how to administer linux. Pinephone has some issues and I wouldn't call it a daily driver yet.
Linux is not something that just works. You will need to know at least a basic level of linux admin and command line (bash) for if something starts going wrong. There's a lot of documentation for most problems that can arise. Unfortunately GUIs are one of the biggest sources of problems on Linux. Which is why it's primarily use is on servers with no GUI.
Is this the linux phone?
I have one. It works, the hardware and build quality seem fine. Manjaro is awful though and it feels like uses a slow, shitty version of desktop Linux on your phone. It still needs work but I suggest supporting them anyway because the hardware is cool and I value privacy over the latest features.
I've heard the KDE plasma edition is a big UI improvement.
IS it one of the new versions shipping this month?
I got it about a month ago.
Waterfox is a good alternative too!
YouTube video tellinn me how to be rid of Google, seems legit.
That was my opinion for less than one minute, too. Where do you figure he's going to reach google normies if not on a google platform?
Right? The ironic part is that YT hasn't removed it yet.
lol Yea, well, I guess I'm dumb. xD
yes!
you must be stupid. Why would they remove something that gets people to use youtube more? lmao.
Lolno it actually encourages people to stop using YT. People that search it already use it. If they find this out is more likely to decrease YT activity. Maybe you're the stupid one, don't realize Google owns YT?
lol. It encourages people to stop using YT? You have no idea. Funny, all I see is more usage. Infact, the more 'outrage' and more 'Howto', the more views. It works about as well a a youtube video that tells you how to make more money.
How is it different than a reddit post saying to leave reddit for The Donald?
I like it, it's like communists using our own freedom to destroy us.
Just a list of alternatives (self-hosted, so you'll need a server and technical knowledge to set up):
(anything else? I can't think...)
Some more YouTube alternatives: Bitchute, Vimeo, Dailymotion, Dtube
LOL, Vimeo and Dailymotion are cucked. I would strongly advise against uploading wrongthink videos there. You'll find out the hard way.
Hillary's daughter is on the board of Vimeo's parent company...
Rumble
Live just banned Nick Fuentes and a whole bunch of other conservative accounts, so I don't think they're viable anymore.
Rumble is so ass
Newtube.app
Odysee
Don't forget PeerTube!
https://videos.lukesmith.xyz/videos/watch/2de152be-1346-4ab4-b377-bf008408ebc3
De-Google your Android phone for a start if that's what you're using. /e/ is a good idiot-proof solution but there's also just LineageOS + microG.
This is the route I went a few years ago. MicroG with Aurora store gives full anonymous access to Google's play store (dont forget to vpn as well). Bromite is also a badass browser with built-in add blocking similar to ublock. Youtube-vanced is pretty good too for add-free YouTube usage. After flashing lineageos, nanodroid makes it pretty easy to install everything. I have the same setup on my kid's tablets too.
Its not the easiest thing to setup but once its running, it is as close as you can get to a full on Google ecosystem without touching their auth servers. Pinephone looks pretty good too as I'm a huge KDE fan.
View Instagram without the BS https://bibliogram.art/
View YouTube without the BS https://invidious.snopyta.org/feed/popular
I use Keepass for my password manager on my PC. Supposedly it's secure and respectable.
Also a lot of options all in one place https://www.privacytools.io/
Start by pirating everything and using an adblocker
https://adnauseam.io/
I haven't in a few years, now I really don't feel bad about all the shit I pirated in my youth, and I am thinking I might take this up as a hobby again just fuck over TPTB. Thanks for the suggestion.
Download all the evidence of election fraud and reupload it with BitTorrent!
There's just not any decent content out there now worth pirating, excepting some music.
That was pretty much why I quit to begin with, the movies sucked and I can't think of anything I would want to pirate. Now as a political action maybe we should just start pirating anything new and disseminating it to the masses just to hurt the box office/streaming revenue.
Don't torrent without protection! Use a no-log VPN that won't forward copyright warning letters to you for torrenting
lol I just invested in a NAS server that I had been contemplating doing for years but was happy with services. Now my sentiment for the new year has been. Fuck I don't care about giving these people my money anymore. now the only money I spend is for a no log VPN which is much cheaper than all of those if you buy in 1-2 year terms.
Nice, yeah we probably need to start educating our less tech savvy pedes on how to use VPN's, we are going to need them in this age of censorship.
Posting this on Google may be ironic, but it doesn't make it untrue.
If anyone wants to take practical measures to either completely de-google themselves or just close up some privacy loopholes, watch videos from youtube user TheHatedOne.
Im very close to being 100% free of google and although you have to relearn some things and endure some minor inconveniences, it is unimaginably liberating.
DO NOT DELETE YOUR GMAIL ACCOUNTS....
Purge your mail, contacts, files whatever... but leave the mailbox open and forward emails to your protonmail so that you can see what services are still tied to gmail.
Also this will prevent someone else from taking your old identity and abusing it in some way!
That's basically what I did.
All I actually get in my Gmail is spam anyway, Google can keep all the unread advertisements for natural male enhancement.
Is protonmail better than say Reagan.com?
Only download firefox if u support commie
People should honestly just delete their computers. Everything about them is infected with liberals. Every piece of it is built by a bunch of communist hippies on the coasts. Big tech, including Linux and the hardware (all owned and paid for by big tech) is rotten to its core. There is no freedom and no one owns their computers anymore. Computers will be how they control each and every one of us. Just being on this site gives them enough leverage.
Ron Swanson right again.
Ron Swanson still cashed his gubbamint paycheck tho.....
No better way to make trouble for the government than from the inside.
This is the full truth. All tech is compromised.
I don't have any evidence, so this is just speculation on my part (but, hey, that's enough for liberals, so what I'm saying must be true, right?), but when your computer/laptop/phone "sleeps", does it "dream"?
People have been lead to believe that it is some power saving mode, but I just have to question if there is more to labeling the mode "sleep mode" than people recognize.
When humans sleep, we are capable of being influenced to some degree, and, in some circumstances, information can be gained (sleep talking, etc.). Now, it doesn't matter to what degree people are affected by this, as it is only needed as an example, but... if your computer is in "sleep" mode, is it still capable of transmitting data if a backdoor is accessed? Can the minimal power mode allow for a very slow trickle of information over the net?
Again, I don't know what safeguards we have against such things, but considering that certain parts of the system are not completely off, I just have to wonder if there is some method by which computers are compromised in that manner.
Well... if your computer is “sleeping” it has powered down the hard drives and processor and is keeping power to your memory that holds your OS and everything you were doing in RAM. Some controllers and power monitoring stuff runs but in general no it doesn’t “dream”. It’s controlled by hardware so the OS is “off” until You resume. That said there’s a lot of things going on in power management and it’s completely possible for your computer to wake up and do stuff. But it’s not a big concern really. I have a computer science degree and have contributed to the Linux kernel before :)
There is a lot to unpack about managing computers in an operationally secure manner. It /can/ be done but it is very hard.
Here's a nightmare for that sleep time https://itsfoss.com/fact-intel-minix-case/
Mozilla is truely run by libtards. I'd like to switch to GNU Icecat, but boy, oh, boy, does GNU not make it easy to install that browser on mac OSX or even newbie linux distros such as Ubuntu without a PPA. Even after adding the PPA, I get error messages about a key missing. UGH
fully open source without being based on Gulag, best we can do for now.
You can get your data deleted. It’s not hard. Especially due to systems Europe made them set up “right to be forgotten”. I’ve tried reactivating my account and it failed (a couple years after deleting it). I only used Facebook for a couple of years anyhow. Saw all this coming a long time ago.
If you think that information is deleted, you are extremely naive.
Edward Snowden warned us about Google and Microsoft doing this nearly a decade ago and they have never stopped. They are entities of the deepstate and their databases are basically the Senate Intelligence Committee's and FISA court's playground.
They do maintain some level of shadow profiles on people they have never even used Facebook before. You exist in their system even if you don’t want to and never created an account. They even have sophisticated advertising profiles on you. Still, they are obligated by law to delete your data and tell you everything they have. If they don’t do it, that’s in them but I am not such a cynic that I don’t think at least that part works. Shadow profiles and them keeping some data about you and your place in the social network graph is stuff EU has sued them over numerous times. 🤷♀️
Can't delete your Facebook if you never had it to begin with ;) I saw this shit coming back in the MySpace days
How to delete google from your life? Simple; hijack the closest nuclear silo.
I was perma banned from youtube for hate speech and they refuse to give me any samples of my comments that are considered hate speech...
So rude and vile your words we can’t even copy them it would hurt our sensitive souls too much!!
Ah tyranny you smell like sh’nit.
This guy has good videos but be careful of his queer politics. He's super anti brave because the founder was donating to Christian groups that were "anti butt pumping"
Brave is built on Google codebase anyway, I don't get why everyone is all about using Brave. Go Firefox or Opera.
Definitely not fiefox.
https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2021/01/08/we-need-more-than-deplatforming/
Brave was making my credit union and amazon have to verify it's me every time with an email or text message. They send me warnings that someone is trying to log into my account with a Chrome desktop (I'm on a windows laptop).
Sometimes I get messed up with very few sites and then I just do shields down. I actually am in the process of canceling my Amazon card for this reason.
It's open source code. Just because they use the codes doesn't mean that Google can control it or use in beyond means of notoriety.
Otherwise edge would have not gone chromium.
Saying to use Firefox is like saying to give Michelle Obama a blowjob
As difficult this is going to be do to, sadly, it's necessary if we ever want to be out from under the thumb of our tech overlords.
The garage pull was a nice touch. FBI fags should be paying him a visit any moment now.
FYI, I'm pretty sure Google owns Mozilla Firefox or at least has some kind of strong relationship with them. I recommend Opera.
Just downloaded Opera. I used to love it on my old phone. The Windows version has a built in VPN now.
Google owns android, you cannot delete your google account if you use android it collects data 24/7
People have made android distributions that rip out all the google spyware. For example, see lineage os.
No, the Google build of Android and GAPPS collect your data 24/7.
Since Android is Open Source licensed, plenty of non-Google people have worked out operating system branches that work on "Android Devices" without running Google's shitty, big brother OS.
I opened a gmail account when I got my tablet and there's nothing in it except for google's emails to me. You don't have to use it.
We all need to start pressuring the phone and tablet makers about requiring android on them.
Check out the documentary the creepy line as long as you have android the same data collecting is built right into OS Apple does the same shit
I know. We need some conservative computer geniuses to make some new platforms!!
Hard to do when work requires you to use certain things.
This is what I'm researching now. Planning to get a phone to use lineage os and cut Google it of my life as thoroughly as I can.
All this has finally motivated me to move more away from big tech. Dumped a while ago netflix, backing up facebook contacts and will be deleting that soon, never had an iphone, I don't use chrome anymore, and something I've really been meaning to do for years:
Installing a Linux OS, mint or maybe tails.
I'm a gamer so Windows it is but I might do a dual boot to Xubuntu......I will at least keep a bootable USB for emergencies. I was 100% Linux for 5 years before I got back into gaming.
I'll definitely keep a dual boot going for gaming as well, but manjaro is supposed to be decent.
yeah bit Manjaro is based on Arch and their package management is a damn trashfire......JMHO, if its working for you then you are better than me lol
I will see. I'm going with mint first and will branch out from there.
I just can't stand windows 10 at this point, pushing unwanted updates and their corporation is awful.
I got banned for 30 days on fb for posting this lmao!
Ahem... 4k Video Downloader.
DO NOT INSTALL FIREFOX. Install Opera or Brave instead.
https://brave.com https://www.opera.com
Opera is owned by China.
Oh crap, for real?? I just put it on my phone and laptop.
Yes. Close you google account and stop using all Google services. I support this. Just know that everything you have ever done or posted where you have used a google service, and google service, is saved FOREVER. You can back up, move, delete, close, etc. but the fact is that the data all belongs to Google and they keep it forever. "Terms of Service"! But, get off now and stay off. Figure out how to live without Google. It's very good advice.
I'm currently using google cloud for offsite storage backups. I pay 10$ a month for 2TB. Can anybody recommend me a good alternative that's a user friendly as google drive?
I don't know how friendly gulag drive is because I've never used it, but I just started using Protonmail's pCloud and I like it. Swiss privacy laws might be useful.
Watch the video before criticizing that it's on YouTube.
If you watch YouTube videos, and are an Android user, I highly suggest looking at 'youtube vanced' (vancedapp dot com). It blocks all preroll, midroll, and postroll ads, allows for a dark theme, blocks sponsor ads, community posts, allows you to set comment section as old or new style...been using it about a year now and love it. FUCK THEIR AD REVENUE!!
Rob Braxman Tech channel on YouTube also has great info on degoogling phones.
I am so ready for that Linux cell phone to start shipping. Android iOS duopoly is big brother in the age of 1984
Oh, thank you for mentioning this. I was getting ready to buy a new phone.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2020/10/27/this-gorgeous-new-linux-phone-ships-with-ubuntu-touch-and-lineageos/?sh=764e7e433e5c
not many peeps taken ownership but im all in,
Proton for email.
Google owns YouTube
I find it sad and funny how many of us cannot seem to understand what it takes to "De-Google" your life.
There is no preference box or product you can buy that will keep this corporation out of your life.
You MUST build a life that does not require internet connectedness to provide you with food, water, warmth when it is cold, relief when it is hot, entertainment and connection when you are lonely.
De-Google your life by playing an instrument with others and no longer using a cell phone or bringing it with you. If you like taking pictures, bring a phone w no contract and no connectivity and use it for taking pictures and videos you can upload later from home.
De-Google your life by doing business in person; reading paper books; buying what you need from people who make what you need as directly as possible or making it yourself.
Pay with cash. Barter. Make your life as independent as possible from anything digital or electronic.
When the lights start going out in a years time to punish political dissenters, you will be fine for the most part.
Hard drives fail more than you'd think. Keep three copies (three different drives) of all data.
For those with android devices, here are some tips:
Because Android OS is open-source, there are community-made versions of Android that are not tied to Google or other big companies. Such versions are usually stripped of bloatware and have better privacy. LineageOS is one example. You can "degoogle" your android device without ditching Android. Here's what you need to learn, in that order:
Step 1: How to unlock bootloader (required for Step 2)
Step 2: How to flash custom recovery like TWRP (makes Step 3 easier)
Step 3. How to flash custom ROMs (LineageOS is a good alternative, but you can find more on https://forum.xda-developers.com)
Alternatives for some google apps:
Aurora Store (lets you download Play Store apps without an account).
Aurora Droid (front-end for other app repositories, many of which feature open-source apps).
NewPipe (lets you use YouTube and subscriptions without account, plays videos without ads)
You can find other alternatives for any platform on https://alternativeto.net
That's irrelevant to the value of the info he's giving. Maybe he only disvocered that goolag is evil after he got the phone.
Great post. I've been busying myself the whole weekend removing myself from big tech's grasp. No point in whining about their power while continuing to support them because of "convenience".
Steps I have taken already taken or will take this weekend:
Have I missed anything?
Map quest.
Anyone have a good alternative to google maps? I’m currently trying maps.me but it is rough. Or any email alternatives, currently trying ProtonMail.
Garmin GPS with free lifetime traffic and updates
Protonmail seems to be good so far. I got it last month (pay version). They also have a VPN, which I haven't tried yet, and a cloud service that I uploaded a few videos to. Seems to work ok, but who knows how private these things really are.
Frens got any tips for ripping videos off YouTube? Brave browser cucked for google and uses their playstore, which doesnt allow youtube video ripper extensions.
You mean an an extension like this?
What, you didn't believe me?
Huh? Believe you about what? I just recommended the extension I use to download vids off youtube. Isn't that what you were asking for?
Youtube-dl with a GUI front-end (Github)
Chromium-based mobile browsers like Brave usually dont have plugin-support at all. But for Android there is NewPipe (a youtube-app alternative which works without Googles APIs) and YMusic (a music player), they allow downloads from youtube.
This is a good video. Actually go to the Youtube video and upvote it. He deserves the credit.
I love that it's a youtube video lol
Just shifted my flag permanently to Brave...I was Netscape Navigator back in the day and always liked Firefox even with its flaws.
about:config old.dog.new.tricks [true]
Anyone here use Signal app? Was just recommended to me, and seems like the right idea but when you goto signal.org the first fucking thing you see is mister buttplug himself Jack Dorsey. not exactly sure of it’s security measures anymore
Been using it for over a year now. It’s a lot like WhatsApp, but with lots of bugs/glitches. End to end encryption, audio video calling, groups. Overall seems to work alright, and at least it’s not owned by Facebook.
Whilst the irony of watching a youtube video about how to get google out of your life is hilarious. It is also the only place where people who want to degoogle might see it. It's a selling ice to eskimos thing. You don't do a bitchute video about cutting google out.
I was about to dump my gmail account but then their arent any good free ones out there that arent microsoft/yahoo/aol etc
Any others?
Protonmail.
not free....but good yes
? ProtonMail has a free offering in their plans.
is it hidden? I cant find it
I just created a free Proton Mail account using the link above. Thanks! In the past I could not find the free account either.
Should we be concerned that Protonmail's management are all ex-CERN engineers?
Tutanota.
They have a relatively generous free plan, end-to-end encryption, and an open-source app on the F-Droid store.
https://tutanota.com/ https://f-droid.org/en/packages/de.tutao.tutanota/
Joined already thanks....can we set these accts up in OUtlook or Android Email?
No, since Tutanota uses encryption there is no ability to use third-party email clients. You'll need to use their (Tutanota's) app or login via a web browser.
There's a pretty good write-up here: https://itsfoss.com/tutanota-review/
Yandex. Go Russian.
What's a good alternative to Google maps?
Standalone GPS (Garmin, etc) with internal sets of maps, like before Google maps existed.
I've also been using CoPilot for android, which works the same way, except you can use it on your phone. Maps are cheap, and accurate, and the app works as advertised without any unnecessary issues.
Thank you!
OpenStreetMap and HERE WeGo on desktop.
OsmAnd+ on mobile.
openstreetmap.org wego.here.com https://f-droid.org/en/packages/net.osmand.plus/
Too bad I have a google phone! Gotta switch! 🆘 Lol
He did not cover what to do with all the sights that you log into through google
Unlink everything used with Google passthrough auth and use a password manager to keep track of individual passwords for each site. Cumbersome, I know.
Like iron key?, how do you retain the accounts
Ironkey is a physical device with a hardware encryption chip that encrypts the contents. There are online services you can use that will store your information in an encrypted container that can only be accessed by a password that you hold. When you go to access the container, its first downloaded (in encrypted form) to your device, then decrypted there with your password. When you're done with the file, it gets re-encrypted (on the device) and saved back to the cloud. If you lose the password, no one, including the company, and you, will be able to get your data. No take-backs or un-dos.
If you want control over your own info locally, and not use a cloud-based third party service, then you can either use a hardware device, as you mentioned, or roll your own version of a software encrypted file vault like KeePass, for account management, or well-vetted encryption software like VeraCrypt to store other files, on your own storage that you keep physically secure.
What a fucking joke. Yes, i'm sure google needs your consent or some account to store data about you.
Realitycheck: Almost every site injects google into your browser, so google knows every single website you visit. Even this site requires google to register an account, so google knows everyone who has an account here.
Can you block this shit with stuff like ublock? Yeah, and it works most of the time. Problem is.... uh.... sites like TDW. Or you know: People posting commietube-links.
But hey, fixing that requires work, responsibility and understanding. No "remove gulag in three easy steps"-clickbait.
So just give up and make them rich while they spy on and censor us then?
Which part about "work, responsibility and understanding" did you miss?
There is no easy solution. It can be fixed, but it requires work and cooperation. Why doesn't TDW start with its own site, by replacing recaptcha with something else, so google can no longer track users?