Free Software Foundation announced its Librephone project to bring mobile phone freedom to users
Free Software Foundation announced its Librephone project to bring mobile phone freedom to users
“Librephone is a new initiative by the FSF with the goal of bringing full freedom to the mobile computing environment. The vast majority of software users around the world use a mobile phone as their primary computing device. After forty years of advocacy for computing freedom, the FSF will now work to bring the right to study, change, share, and modify the programs users depend on in their daily lives to mobile phones.”
There are of course a few such phone freedom projects on Android, but most have a few shortcomings still, and one of the shortcomings has often been that binary blobs are still included for various firmware drivers.
Such devices of course eliminate all the corporate spyware and tracking that Google, Apple, etc tend to pack into their phones. Bearing in mind of course if you install the Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Google Search, etc apps into this phone, you are just wide open again.
An issue for me though, on my last LineageOS phone, was my bank was detecting the phone was not locked down even though I had Magisk modules to mask the rooting. So we are also seeing in some cases that certain security apps may not run properly either. You just have to venture carefully into changes of phone OS and be sure what you need to use, will in fact work fine.
Skip to content, sitemap or skip to search. Librephone is a new initiative by the FSF with the goal of bringing full freedom to the mobile computing environment. The vast majority of software users around the world use a mobile phone as their primary computing device. After forty years of advocacy for computing freedom, the FSF will now work to...
📢 Ufficio Zero Linux OS sostiene e promuove la campagnia Fight Chat Control tanto da inserire la webapp all'interno delle release.
‼️ La campagnia fightchatcontrol.eu mira all'obiettivo di evitare che l'UE possa spiare, monitorare e scansionare le nostre chat, foto e messaggi sui vari social.
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✅ Aggiorna il tuo sistema operativo Ufficio Zero Linux OS ✅ Trova la webapp / aggregatore delle Campagne attive e clicca sulla campagnia fightchatcontrol.eu ✅ Segui i passaggi indicati sul portale per inviare richieste anche personalizzate ai parlamentari italiani ed europei ✅ Il tuo diritto a resistere a questa forma di controllo deve essere sacrosanto
💬 La tua vita online non deve appartenere a nessuno che non sia tu!
i have read that russia is blocking matrix country wide, so i doubt that the great firewall can’t do that. then again i dont remember the source rn, so take it with the usual pinch of salt
I'm not sure at the technical level, there's definitely inconsistencies though. For example, you can't watch youtube, but I would often get YouTube notifications. Yet, the block was still significant enough all of my "offline" videos stopped working because I hadn't logged in for 30 days.
Could also get random updates from my national radio Edit: actually from memory could also access Kbin and peertube.
We have discussed the Chinese company Geedge Networks (积至). Last year, there was the news that Geedge had provided equipment for VPN blocking in Myanmar. One of the founders of the company is 方滨兴 (...
Un postino danese ha consegnato l'ultima lettera della sua carriera senza saperlo. Era una bolletta elettrica diretta a una signora di Copenaghen. Dal 2026 sarà archeologia.
La Danimarca chiude definitivamente la consegna pubblica delle lettere dopo 400 anni: primo paese UE a dire addio alla posta tradizionale. Le 1.500 cassette postali rosse con la corona danese spariranno dalle strade entro dicembre.
Un passaggio epocale: il futuro è già scritto, ma non su carta.
Based on recent reports, YouTube is actively restricting access to Premium accounts created through VPNs and cracking down on users accessing Premium content across different regions. According to user discussions, YouTube now detects and blocks VPN connections when attempting to stream Premium content12.
Some key impacts:
Users report being unable to play YouTube Music through Sonos speakers when using a VPN, with the service becoming accessible only after bypassing VPN connections1
Premium subscribers attempting to access content from different regions than their subscription face connection errors and service disruptions
The restrictions appear to be part of YouTube's broader strategy to enforce regional content licens
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Based on recent reports, YouTube is actively restricting access to Premium accounts created through VPNs and cracking down on users accessing Premium content across different regions. According to user discussions, YouTube now detects and blocks VPN connections when attempting to stream Premium content12.
Some key impacts:
Users report being unable to play YouTube Music through Sonos speakers when using a VPN, with the service becoming accessible only after bypassing VPN connections1
Premium subscribers attempting to access content from different regions than their subscription face connection errors and service disruptions
The restrictions appear to be part of YouTube's broader strategy to enforce regional content licensing and subscription terms
The crackdown coincides with YouTube's increased focus on Premium subscriptions, including showing longer unskippable ads to free users in 2025 to drive Premium adoption3.
Every time I access the internet on a device that isn’t mine, I’m blown away with how bad it is.
Sometimes my friends will ask if I can take a look at their computers because it's not working as expected or something is definitely wrong. I am always blown away by all the ads and crap all over the screen. It's like going to a porn site. I always ask 'How the fuck do you do this?' At the very least, install an adblocker. Sometimes I'll just go ahead and install UBlock, but there's an issue with doing that. Ublock Origin has a little bit of a learning curve. You actually have to put in a little work before it really works optimally for you. I find that people are not willing to do the work.
Not OP but for me I'm fine giving them some money in exchange for me not having to watch any ads while using their services. Just not the amount they want to charge me in my home country. 5€ a month feels fair, 15 does not.
That's fair, but my code of ethics prohibits me giving money to a corporation that engages in mass surveillance and actively radicalizes young men and women into the alt-right rabbit hole.
As far as YT & Google et al, I don't participate. A good while back, I tried to promote some of my music on YT. The experience was...... terrible afaic. I used to use YT for tutorials, but there is no way I'm going to jump through all their hoops and endure back to back, un-skippible ads, to find out that the tut is shit. Screw that noise.
Reddit has been silently rejecting accounts that sign up with a VPN for quite some time now. If you make an account using a VPN, an alias email, using a hardened Firefox, and all the blockers, you can expect that your account will be shadow banned almost immediately. So, as long as Reddit front ends work, I'll still use it as a resource....for now.
I foresee that private forums will become a thing again where people of like minds congregate and exchange info, expertise, ideas, content, etc. They were once quite popular but people gravitated to these multi billion dollar corp owned social media outlets because it was the next best thing, and now the other shoe has dropped.
Honestly just need to bring back Usenet newsgroup traffic
Hey bro. I appologize for the late reply. Apparently I lost track of time.
First, I am a mediocre musician on my best day. I've been playing stringed instruments for about 65 years, but it's more of a hobby that I get a lot of satisfaction out of. I did entertain the notion that maybe I could pick up one or two gigs doing background music for an indie game dev, which is why I was using YT. I do have some tracks on PeerTube, but as you are probably aware, the traffic flow of PeerTube is rather spartan.
You know, I was trying to pay for YouTube Premium. I do think that was fair even though I knew I could use ad blockers for free.
The prices are outrageous where I live so i used a VPN to find a more reasonable price. Every so often, YouTube would cancel my account and I’d do it again.
This happened several times, but I finally realized that YouTube doesn’t want any money for my account! They would rather I pay nothing at all! That’s so generous of them.
So, now I use ad blockers and I get the same service for free.
If you don't have Bypass Paywalls Clean too, some news sites won't let you read their articles when they detect your browser- or DNS-based ad-blocking. The user might want to know how to turn it off for a particular site (or learn how to switch to reader mode and/or how to use a site like 12ft.io) to get around that. Or if they turn on extra uBlock lists like the "annoyances" ones they might not see certain social media sign-in pop-ups they're expecting to see, for example.
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SponsorBlock skips sponsor segments. SponsorBlock also supports Invidious and Piped if you enable Support 3rd Party YouTube-Sites in the SponsorBlock options.
Yeah and majority of them aren't as popular. Think Fedi.Directory has selection of various PeerTube channels which the popular ones like The Linux Experience, Veronica Explains more used PeerTube as a mirror for people who don't want to use YouTube and then there's some FOSS Project (think KDE?) that use it just to show off features related to their project.
Beside Tilvids' instance, there's barely much video on PeerTube I feel like I want to actually watch
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Download Video Background Play Fix for Firefox. Some sites may not work with Firefox for Android video background play feature. This add-on provides a quick fix by blocking the Page Visibility API and the Fullscreen API.
Hah. I mean no offense but you sound exactly like Gemini or copilot after I call it out for some egregious hallucination.
"Of course you're absolutely right, I completely understand how saying X would undermine your confidence in my abilities. I'll keep that in mind for next time, I'm always learning etc...
At least on Brave you don't have to use an account (which Mozilla hasn't figured out yet) to synchronize your bookmarks, extensions and settings. And mind you that you can disable all the controversial things.
It's true. I use Brave as well. They have several novel privacy features that no one else does. And although the company has a checkered history, I still think it's the best (for now). I just wish more FOSS devs would take notes and implement these privacy features in other browsers.
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