I used Onavo for a short while. But the ick factor of having someone give me a service for free which I know is expensive fired off all kinds of alarm bells and I stopped using it. It’s truly evil that Facebook was just lapping up so much data and in such an anti-competitive way - Onavo was pivotal in FB buying WhatsApp for pennies on the dollar.
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Coupled with the fact they have turned over a private conversation regarding an abortion on messenger; they are a massive undermining of civil rights.
Please don't post yputube videos without a summary.
Honest question. Why? Is it an accessibility thing?
The other reply is a good answer, but also dropping a video with no context or explanation is a hallmark of content spammers and growth hackers.
Even if looking like a crappy kind of poster isn’t enough to dissuade someone from just dropping a link and fucking off, providing some context and input to how and what the link will do and what it means as a post in the particular community is a lot better behavior and starts a conversation as opposed to doing nothing.
I see. The responses to OP were pretty critical and I couldn't understand why. Now I have a bit of context. Thank you
I’m not saying this to insult you in any way, just to express my amazement:
Y’all .world mfs are built different.
Thanks? NGL the instance I landed on was incidental, but ok. I'm also stoned AF so…
How FB wiretapped millions with a VPN
If its not to your liking that is unfortunate. You can also make a comment to elaborate and contribute to the community and discussion.
Obviously I can only speak for myself as a non-impaired person, but I am often in spaces where I cannot listen to audio even on headphones. Also a summary is nice to get a feel if I even want to spend the time watching the video later.
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Never ever post a link to YouTube in a channel that are about privacy! Link to a privacy-friendly front-end like Piped instead.
are there any working instances nowadays? Invidious is better on that front.
weird because invidious is harder to maintain
Yes, mine, but I don't want to share the link to it.
oh, I see. no problem. but it's easy to maintain a public instance if it is not publicly listed, and few know about it. with less traffic you are less noticeable.
but good to know the software still works
Don't bother. OP refuses to take advice and will just tell you to "do it yourself."
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Nope
the good vpn is your vpn or from your trusted friends the much better when there are homelab solution than vps instead, so, sharing big thech links is not about privacy
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