Well, as said, I don’t see any ad, not even in YT and I use only the inbuild blocker. Fingerprint is not a simple thing, because some fingerprint’s are needed to show correctly a WebPage and don’t have any privacy problem. The webpage know the screen resolution, inbuild fonts, my OS and also the country from where I am (except if I use an VPN or Proxy). This are irrelevant data which are the same in millon other users. If I want I can block these, but with the price that a lot of websites not longer work or only badly. Privacy is important, but privacy protection means no leaking relevant private data, not to block tecnical data, to block tracking cookies (every adblocker do it, even the inbuild one from Vivaldi), no logging your activity as some browser and search engines (with these apart of a privacy problem it`s also a filter bubble problem) do and mostly also depends on the user himselve who is the biggest privacy hole in the web. You can go with a knight armor in the Jungle which keeps you complete save, but por obvious reasons its not the most usefull suite you can use.

No ads here, it’s easy to add custom filters to the Vivaldi blocker. You can sideload extensions and even User Scripts to the extension page with activated developer mod (Upper right corner in the page). Tip, you can add the extension page, same as other intern pages, to the web panel, so you can access these at any moment. The settings possibilities are certainly somewhat overhelming for some people, but if you want an granular settings it’s inavoidable. But if you had done it one time you have really the browser which fits 100% your needs, it’s worth this little effort.

As expected, billionaires in climatized bunkers and fuck the rest

Axis of Evil

It say a lot when US citizen emmigrate permanent to Europe, Canada, China and even to third world countries and say that there their life is >100% better than in the US.

In the US quality of living is only true for a rich minority, same as in the Iran or any other capitalist/religious dictatorship country where the bills for the stupidity of the leaders are paid by the people, never by the elites.

I remember a novel by a German author, Walter Schätzel (from 1957). It was about a professor who fell into a crevasse and was thawed centuries later by an alien civilization that now populated the earth, because humanity had died out except for a few individuals. This alien civilization only had to worry about research, philosophy or art, because all products and services were produced and offered automatically and were freely available at any time, regardless of whether they were food, clothing, everyday items, medical treatment, living space or vehicles. No money and very rare crimes are treaten as mental illness because of this. Everybody has all what he need or want. Humorous and entertaining reading about the experiences of this professor in this civilization.

https://www.amazon.de/Sie-kamen-einem-anderen-Stern/dp/B00208XDHM

China already use a lot of bots, maybe more and more advanced than any other countries, they have even a robot army, police bots and a lot of bots in restaurants and bars, even in particular homes, Easy to buy with prices between $10.000-15.000

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioi3r007mTU&t=895s

At least they don’t like call centers

https://youtube.com/shorts/9F-1M65D26U

but there is also an 1,80m Police version which give me goosebumps

https://youtu.be/ioi3r007mTU

Yes, but a lot of people need to use Windows for several reasons and because of this to alleviate the disadvantages of an proprietary soft.

Maybe smarter than the ICE agents.

Meanwhile in China

https://youtube.com/shorts/tUQCMyMQWzI

It’s few Microsoft can do legally, there is no change in the OS as such, you need a valid and legal Windows installation to use AtlasOS, they can’t avoid the user choice using other services and tools instead of the inbuild ones, in updates there are only important security updates, which are not a problem if you continuo using the Defender (recomendable). Atlas exist since ~10 Years, also there isn’t a problem with it, same as with the apps to debloat Windows, which also exist since a lot of years. Windows as such is a decent OS, it’s same as others based on Unix. It’s bad because the garbadge, telemetries, AIs and “Services to improve the user experience” in it by default. It’s the same as with stock Android respect de-googled Android and forks, it’s not Android which is bad (it’s in essence Linux), it’s all the crap Google put in it.

Same as I do, the main issue in Windows is a ton of crap and some innecessary telemetries which it has by default. But as said, you can gut it. Installing Portmaster and using it in peace

A lot, you can strip out almost everything in Windows to the level of the OS as such (as I’ve done since years, using the bare OS with only the needed, all other by third party FOSS). The problem in Windows is not this, but that MS calculates that the majority of users do not do it, because many things are undocumented and it is necessary to dive through countless menus and submenus to reach the corresponding configurations, often not very intuitive. This is why there are apps that take care of it. like ShutUp10, Optimizer and similar, or they directly intercept the corresponding layers on the OS like this AtlasOS… But all this can also be done manually without problems, but with the condition that you know well what you are doing, nothing for beginners. Even so, always with a lot of caution.

People in the US have less privacy rights than Chinese people. They have the amount of privacy that corporations permits.

FIFA is simply a money wash engine, nothing to do with sport.

Valid on both side, honest soft and services vs which are not, the worst malware is mostly FOSS which you can find in the onion. Also nowadays the biggest FOSS catalogue is by Google Labs and Microsoft, FOSS to make money. There are others, like the famose Irfanview, free proprietary soft and absolute trustworth and definitively the best which you can find, there don’t exist a real OpenSource alternative.

It depends on several things which is preferable, at the end it’s depends on the intentions and ethics of the author respect the user, on the other hand questionable in case of products (often also FOSS) from big corps where ethics respect the user are too often secundary. To say “OpenSource is always good and Proprietary crap” is a big mistake

A good article

https://nebius.com/blog/posts/open-source-vs-proprietary

Not so long away and everyone is billionaire in the US

It’s irrelevant if the provider is from the EU or not, all of these are forced to fullfit the privacy law if they want to operate in the EU, even Microsoft itself: big difference between Microsoft US, full of trackers and even keyloggers (Towerdata), and Microsoft DE with 2 cookies.