Four hidden ways Big Tech platforms suck up your data

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/hidden-ways-big-tech-sucks-up-data

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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Online Anonymity

https://anonymousplanet.org/guide.html

https://redd.it/m4vxuk

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Spotalike - Create Spotify playlists based on your favourite song (BETA)

https://spotalike.com/

https://redd.it/m4x3yt

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🆕 Voice chat on Channel

#beta #android v7.6

pCloud Now Lets You Back up Your PC and Keep Old Versions for up to 1 Year

https://telegra.ph/pCloud-Now-Lets-You-Back-up-Your-PC-and-Keep-Old-Versions-for-up-to-1-Year---Its-FOSS-News-03-15

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Google is preparing to upgrade Nearby Share with group transfers (by Brandon Russell) https://ift.tt/38HLqYm

Google is cutting Play Store fees in half for most developers 🥳
Finally a much needed change is here!

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2021/03/boosting-dev-success.html

https://www.xda-developers.com/google-cuts-play-store-fees-in-half/

Basically -
Starting on July 1, 2021 google reducing the service fee Google Play receives when a developer sells digital goods or services to 15% for the first $1M (USD) of revenue every developer earns each year. With this change, 99% of developers globally that sell digital goods and services with Play will see a 50% reduction in fees.

For years it was 30% service fee

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Gaze into your Spotify belly button any day of the week

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AndroidPolice/~3/g_lOBD5hjYI/

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Google releases Android 12 Developer Preview 2 for Pixel phones

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2021/03/android-12-developer-preview-2.html

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[Games] Spongebob Squarepants: Battle For Bikini Bottom ($11.99->$7.99) -33%

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hg.bfbb

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Here's why Netflix is cutting down on password-sharing

https://twitter.com/i/events/1372321542072365057?s=20

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Front-ends for evil sites/platforms:

Youtube
- Source: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious
- Instances: https://api.invidious.io

Twitter
- Source: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter
- Instances: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances

Twitter+YouTube
-Source: https://github.com/ytorg/Yotter
-Instances: https://github.com/ytorg/Yotter#public-instances


Instagram
- Source: https://sr.ht/~cadence/bibliogram/
- Instances: https://git.sr.ht/~cadence/bibliogram-docs/tree/master/docs/Instances.md

Reddit
- Sources:
https://github.com/spikecodes/libreddit (1)
https://codeberg.org/teddit/teddit (2)

- Instances:
https://github.com/spikecodes/libreddit#instances (1)
https://codeberg.org/teddit/teddit#instances (2)

Google Translate
- Sources:
https://sr.ht/~yerinalexey/gtranslate/ (1)
https://git.sr.ht/~metalune/simplytranslate_web (2)

- Instances:
https://gtranslate.metalune.xyz/ (1)
https://translate.metalune.xyz/ (2)

Google Search Engine
- Source: https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search
- Instances: https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search#public-instances

P.S. JavaScript isn't required for any core functionality with these front-ends


Source : @Libreware (join for sure 🏃)

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Google introduces Live Caption for Chrome browser on desktop

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AndroidPolice/~3/Y1WLjHMqJj4/

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Voice Chats 2.0: Channels, Millions of Listeners, Recorded Chats, Admin Tools

https://telegram.org/blog/voice-chats-on-steroids

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Aline Red, Green & Blue are live! All 3 packs are currently on sale!

Aline Red
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=one4studio.pixelperfect.iconpack.alinered

Aline Green
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=one4studio.pixelperfect.iconpack.alinegreen

Aline Blue
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=one4studio.pixelperfect.iconpack.alineblue

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All Games by "AZAMATIKA" are currently on sale !

https://play.google.com/store/apps/dev?id=4622967442740406548

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Fleksy co-founder is suing Apple over lost revenue resulting from App Store scammers

https://tcrn.ch/3eVOTGq

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Like Firefox ? , Here are some forks of it

Fennec
- more famous , less add-ons , removed telemtry and other trackers

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.mozilla.fennec_fdroid/


IceRaven ( ty to @CYLANC )
- less famous , almost all add-ons

https://github.com/fork-maintainers/iceraven-browser


Mull ( ty to @polarhive )
- less famous , enables many features upstreamed by the Tor uplift project

https://divestos.org/fdroid/official/?fingerprint=E4BE8D6ABFA4D9D4FEEF03CDDA7FF62A73FD64B75566F6DD4E5E577550BE8467
(will be visible after adding this repo)

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humit
- a social networking app for music sharing and discovery.

https://www.humit.app/

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Sorted CSS Colors – Sort the named CSS colors in a nice way

https://enes.in/sorted-colors/

https://redd.it/m8xbks

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