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Twitter's removal of block function appears to violate both Apple and Google's app store policies (lemmy.world)
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[–] PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Luckily there are alternatives to all of these.

Duck duck go can replace Google search. Dropbox can replace Google drive. Firefox can replace Chrome.

Mastodon replaces x / Twitter

Go buy a brother printer instead of HP

As far as Adobe, we do have photopea... The rest are harder.

[–] cowbellstone@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

…

Illustrator → Inkscape

Lightroom → Darktable/CaptureOne/Rawtherapee

They may need some getting used to if you come from adobe, but they are all very capable.

[–] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

DuckDuckGo contractually uses Bing's ad tracking.

[–] PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Looks like you're wrong:

"DuckDuckGo removes carve-out for Microsoft tracking scripts after securing policy change"

https://techcrunch.com/2022/08/05/duckduckgo-microsoft-tracking-scripts/

“Most browsers’ default tracking protection focuses on cookie and fingerprinting protections that only restrict third-party tracking scripts after they load in your browser. Unfortunately, that level of protection leaves information like your IP address and other identifiers sent with loading requests vulnerable to profiling. Our 3rd-Party Tracker Loading Protection helps address this vulnerability, by stopping most 3rd-party trackers from loading in the first place, providing significantly more protection,” Weinberg writes in the blog post."

“Previously, we were limited in how we could apply our 3rd-Party Tracker Loading Protection on Microsoft tracking scripts due to a policy requirement related to our use of Bing as a source for our private search results. We’re glad this is no longer the case. We have not had, and do not have, any similar limitation with any other company.”

“Microsoft scripts were never embedded in our search engine or apps, which do not track you,” he adds. “Websites insert these scripts for their own purposes, and so they never sent any information to DuckDuckGo."

[–] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Ahh yes, the legalese that says, "no we toootally weren't doing the exact oposite of what we said!"

Sure, they might not tag you with a unique ID that never changes like Google does, but to think Bing is untracked it to fundamentally fail to understand how privacy on the internet works, or doesn't work.

[–] Spider89@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

GIMP / Krita.

non-free bad.

[–] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wasn't saying there aren't alts. And it's not just Google search. It's Google, as a company.

Also, brother is not a good alt anymore :(

[–] PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

As far as Brother, that appears to be an optional service. Our business has a contracted printer rental and service because the damn things are so expensive to keep running. Our old office printer used to break down all the time under light usage. We had the maintenance tech out at least 1-2 times a month.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

Duck duck go can replace Google

Eh. We'll see how long that lasts. All these big firms tend to follow the pack.

Go buy a brother printer instead of HP

Honestly, best hardware decision I've made in a while.