viking

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[–] viking 7 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Proton and Astrill are very good as well.

[–] viking 2 points 7 months ago

True, I meant anonymous in the sense that participants are not generally identifiable by one another.

[–] viking 27 points 7 months ago (2 children)

pCloud, under business terms fairly towards the end:

Term & Termination

This Agreement may be terminated by either party at any time, for any reason. This Agreement will remain in effect until Customer's subscription to the Services expires or until the Agreement is terminated. In the event of termination by the Customer, the Customer will remain responsible for payment of all fees and charges applicable to the period during which the Agreement was in effect.

[–] viking 1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

To an extent. Lemmy is a useful substitute for reddit because it's anonymous, so I don't know and to an extent don't care who I'm talking to. With messenger services it's a different use case, I need the exact people I want to talk to on there, or it's essentially worthless.

[–] viking 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)

What does magic the gathering have to do with this photo?

[–] viking 2 points 7 months ago

That's what YOU get since you're neither in China nor Japan. They only get to see their relative government's name. China in fact gets to see nothing since they block Google, but it you happen to be in Hong Kong or Macau, you would.

[–] viking 16 points 7 months ago (11 children)

Nah. I'll start boycotting google when there are useful alternatives. Amazon, facebook, reddit - no problem.

Google search - fine, I can get by with DDG or Yandex. Gmail - sure, whatever. Maps? Organic Maps (and other openstreetmaps front-ends) works alright for getting your bearings, but it's a far cry from useful for finding businesses, and terrible for navigation. Waze used to be the only viable alternative, but ever since Google bought them, it's hard to justify a full boycott without massively inconveniencing myself.

Same for meta as a whole. Facebook and Instagram, sure, no need. But living without whatsapp is simply impossible in some countries, where it's the de-facto standard for communication, and even used as the only means of contact with government agencies.

[–] viking 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Shareholders don't individually sanction business decisions, only targets. And often they are not even aware what the company did until the next board meeting. If it's mentioned at all. So calling them complicit is a long shot, and shows that you don't really know anything about the matter.

[–] viking 2 points 7 months ago

No libraries where I'm at, unfortunately, and no e-libraries whatsoever (unless we talk about not exactly legal ones).

[–] viking 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

No such thing in my city :-(

[–] viking 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Unfortunately there is no library in my city, and no e-library in my country.

[–] viking 2 points 7 months ago

Unfortunately there is no library in my city.

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