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Ethical, easy-to-use and privacy-conscious alternatives to well-known software (switching.software)

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A great resource that makes it quick and easy to find alternatives to Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Adobe and many more.

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[–] esaru@beehaw.org 6 points 4 months ago (12 children)

They promote Ubuntu-based distros, which cannot be trusted anymore, and they forget to mention Fedora as a better alternative.

Here is why you shouldn't use Ubuntu:

Canonical’s Ubuntu is not recommended because it contains Amazon ads and data leaks by default. GNU/Linux distributions based on Ubuntu are also currently not recommended due to several other reasons.

Source: https://prism-break.org/en/subcategories/gnu-linux-operating-systems/

[–] freedomPusher@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Also worth noting that #Ubuntu and #Mint both moved substantial amounts of documentation into Cloudflare (the antithisis of the values swiso claims to support). I have been moving people off those platforms.

BTW, prism-break is a disasterous project too. You know they don’t have a clue when they moved their repo from Github.com to Gitlab.com, an access-restricted Cloudflare site. There are tens if not hundreds of decent forges to choose from and PRISM Break moved from the 2nd worst to the one that most defeats the purpose of their constitution.

It might be useful to find dirt on various tech at prism-break, but none of these sites can be trusted for endorsements.

The prism-break website is timing out for me right now. I would not be surprised if they were dropping Tor packets since they have a history of hypocrisy.

[–] esaru@beehaw.org 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

OMG, not a smart decision from prism-break to move to Gitlab.com.

[–] esaru@beehaw.org 2 points 4 months ago

It's true, as for recommendations from websites, you should never trust them blindly but do your own research as well.

For Linux distributions though, as there's no other practical way than trusting them with the packages they provide, one needs to make sure the people behind the project persue the right values. The project itself needs to earn your trust or at least not have a record of violating it.

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