Are there any known financial ties? She and her husband are both primarily involved in political finance roles throughout their careers before and after marriage.
Josiane Collazo-Psaki and James Psaki (Direct relations of Jen Psaki, the White House Press Secretary) are financial contributors to the Aspen Institute. Point72, one of the sources of liquidity along with Citadel for Melvin Capital, is one of the Aspen Institute's largest donors.
https://privatebin.info/ @ bin.maga.host https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances @ nitter.maga.host
If no then I am going to roll some friendly versions.
I have been testing out a configuration for privacy centric browsing using some of the resources that I have been collecting over the past few weeks. With many of our users not being familiar with the tools that are available I figured it might be nice to go through and write out a short summary of each of the tools!
Browser
I was finally able to give Dissenter Browser (Gab) a shot on a MacBook Air and it's excellent. The core technology is derived from Brave Browser which is itself based on the open-source Chromium Browser which means that Chrome Extensions can be installed. There is a built in ad and tracking blocker for the browser and a built-in "comment section" extension that allows you to comment on any webpage and have other Dissenter Browser users see it when they visit.
The Brave Attention Token (BAT) functionality has been stripped out of the browser which some may or may not like. If you do want that functionality then you should just use Brave Browser directly as it is incredibly similar. I prefer having as little involvement in my browsing of advertising as possible so Dissenter Browser is my choice.
Extensions
- uBlock Origin (https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock) :: This is a classic adblocker that supplements the built-in ad and tracking blocking. I've found that it effectively blocks all YouTube Advertisements in addition to more traditional banner advertisements. The block lists that it uses are very well maintained and it rarely breaks websites. If it does break a website it can be toggled off for that specific site so that you can continue using it.
- HTTPS Everywhere (https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere) :: This is a product of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the Tor Project who are admittedly becoming more SJW every day but thus far have continued maintaining excellent privacy and anti-tracking tools like this. HTTPS Everywhere forces an encrypted connection in across the Internet to make sure that if someone is intercepting browsing data it is significantly more protected and harder to analyze.
- Privacy Badger (https://privacybadger.org/) :: Privacy Badger is another anti-tracking utility. It maintains what amounts to a reputation database for each tracker and shares that across all the users of the extension so the whole network benefits. Might break some websites but they've actually resolved most of the issues that were prevalent when the extension was initially released.
- DecentralEyes (https://decentraleyes.org/) :: Whenever you visit a website all the data that makes up that website needs to be delivered to your browser. Content Blockers like the ones above are effective in identifying malicious, annoying, or deceptive content but what about the commonly used resources across websites? Many of those resources get to you through a Content Delivery Network (CDN) which then is able to track you pretty effectively all over the Internet. DecentralEyes just stores those resources on your computer for reuse and replaces links in the code of each website so that they point to your local copy instead of the CDN hosted file.
Search Engine
- Presearch (https://presearch.org/signup?rid=2063958) :: This is a project that is coming out of what amounts to a testing phase. It's a decentralized search engine where there is no authority like Google or Microsoft sitting at the center and hoovering up all your information. You receive tokens for normal use of the search engine that can then be sold or used to pay for advertising on the network. It's surprisingly solid for how innovative of a product it is and I am now using it as my default search engine.
- Swisscows (https://swisscows.com/) :: Privacy Oriented and cutting edge.
- Qwant (https://www.qwant.com/) :: Privacy Oriented and familiar user experience.
That is all.
The gulags are coming.
This is for the little guy. New big guys will remain little guys because we’re all retards big or smoll.
I’m a naturally suspicious, paranoid, schizo, autist who doesn’t trust really any software. That being said, even I am coming around on Telegram. Normally with new apps I start out excited and then I discover the shitty little things that are going to piss me off for the next eternity because they are inherent to the design of the app. The only things that I’ve found like that for Telegram are not being able sort chats by different variables and a phone number being required for signup. Other than that it’s fucking golden. Thoughts?
Odysee iOS Beta App
https://testflight.apple.com/join/8VLNhU79
Unsure how long it will remain up. Looks like it has been available publicly for a few days already. Typically these are 90 days long by default before requiring renewal and Apple is incredibly permissive with renewals (especially with stuff like this where they can use it as a big fuck you for Google).
Additionally, is anyone able to confirm that results for the Odysee website just magically disappeared from Google and DuckDuckGo results? I was previously getting Qactus and Salty but not the homepage which makes me think that it was a bad regex that was being used to block and that they finally fixed it. I get articles about Odysee in results now but not anything with the actual domain or pages on it.
Using a non-API based search engine I get it first result so there’s clearly some shenanigans afoot. We’re going into a pretty fucking shit search paradigm with the Google market share still over 90% realistically so definitely keep exploring alternatives like presearch.com and swisscows that actually do their own indexing instead of DDG which has historically just served as a circuit-breaker incase of regulation or anti-trust. DDG as a real privacy tool is likely going to be going away as it gains market share and has more pressure applied.
I’m putting together a listing that I’ll sort by purpose and potentially redistribute like the “Free Yourself From Big Tech” posts depending on the quality of submissions. What would you want on a list like that?
