Software Freedom Conservancy has a pretty nice page called Give Up GitHub!, definitely check that out

I always need

• LibreWolf (privacy-focused Firefox fork)
• Some nice terminal emulator like Alacritty or Kitty
• A torrent client
• Emacs
• Strawberry (the music player)

CLI:

• fish shell
• bat
• neovim
• fd
• fzf
• zoxide
• Some other Rust alternatives for GNU coreutils
• GPG
• fun stuff like neofetch, lolcat, asciiquarium, cmatrix, etc.

He’s using kbin, it’s like Lemmy but they don’t call it communities, they call them magazines. I think this is what he refers to: https://kbin.social/m/degoogle. But it ain’t great, I recommend the !degoogle@lemmy.ml community instead.

I was actually thinking about downloading and archiving everything, but then it got taken down. Damn.

Unfortunately the podcast doesn’t exist anymore. I really liked it.

That’s what fivefilters-full-text-rss-docker is for

Libreddit should fix this

There are multiple instances hosting Piped. You can look at the list of public instances and pick one you like: https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped/wiki/Instances

I also recommend the Libredirect addon, which automatically redirects all YouTube links to Piped.

On Android you can use LibreTube, which also uses Piped.

On iOS you can set up Yattee with this guide to use Piped. But you can also just use it in the browser if you like.

If it works it works I guess.

No don’t get me wrong. uBO doesn’t block all JavaScript. It has lists with individual scripts that are known to be used for ads or tracking, and these get blocked. All the other scripts load as usual. This already improves website load times and probably also battery life. Another interesting solution for reducing CPU load may be DNS based blocking. That way, the CPU is not impacted at all, the browser tries to load the script but it just silently fails, because the DNS records for the tracking and advertisement servers won’t be provided.

Because that statement is really ridiculous.

I enjoy helping people out, when I have some free time. Otherwise I would waste my time scrolling on Tiktok or Instagram Reels lol.

I believe Firefox now does what ClearURL advertises (removing tracking elements in URLs), but I’m not sure I’ll have to check again

Yes, they added such a feature in version 120 I believe, but I would still use the uBlock list. The performance impact is not noticeable at all, it doesn’t hurt. But the ClearURL extension is kinda unnecessary.

No problem. Unfortunately Tampermonkey is recommended in many articles, guides, blog posts, etc. because people are unaware of what it does. Violentmonkey should be far more popular, so users stop downloading proprietary crap, simply because it’s the best known userscript extension.

uBlock Origin can do everything that NeatURL does. Just enable the “AdGuard URL Tracking Protection” filter list in the settings.

I could maybe see selectively-blacklisting particularly obnoxious websites

That’s what uBlock Origin already kinda does for you. It’s not just an adblocker, it also blocks tracking JavaScript from various sites as well as a bunch of other crap.

Suggestion: Use LibRedirect, it does the same thing as Nitter redirect, but it also supports redirection for many other sites. For example you can redirect YouTube to Piped or Invidious, Reddit to Libreddit, etc.

If you want to use userscripts, definitely install Violentmonkey instead of Greasemonkey or Tampermonkey, as Tampermonkey is proprietary and steals user data and Greasemonkey hasn’t been updated in years

Stop suggesting Greasemonkey and Tampermonkey. Tampermonkey is proprietary and steals user data, and Greasemonkey hasn’t been updated since 2021. Use Violentmonkey, it’s completely FOSS and up-to-date.

Just wanted to mention that Piped has SponsorBlock and DeArrow built in. It’s also better for your privacy since you don’t connect to Google servers directly.

Just wanted to mention that Piped has SponsorBlock and DeArrow built in. It’s also better for your privacy since you don’t connect to Google servers directly.