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[–] Bali@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

Thank you for Informative infograpahic. However i have doubt about recommending Waterfox, in my opinion it should not be recommended for the reason that its involved in an unclear business practice to sustain its development.

Waterfox is a fork of Firefox with some tweaking, probably somewhat close to LibreWolf which i think have better offering for being more a community driven project.

However, web browser is a complex piece of software, features and important bugs & security fixes being added from time to time, so it is also important to consider how fast they merge the change from Upstream (Firefox). If it's too long to to get update it could introduce security issues. So as of now i don't see any viable alternative to Firefox, Chromium or even Ungoogled Chromium.

[–] afronaut@slrpnk.net 8 points 7 hours ago

Spotify? Is this a joke? Lol

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (2 children)

What’s the reason they give mastodon the privacy badge, but don’t give it to lemmy or signal?

[–] ButtDrugs@lemm.ee 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 45 minutes ago) (1 children)

Honestly privacy and social media don't make sense together at all. With all of these platforms, your privacy = how much you share on them. You can't share sensitive information on any social media (corpo or federated) and expect it to be private.

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 hours ago

Privacy is not only anonymity.

It also includes things like security and built in surveillance capitalism tools.

[–] asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev 7 points 6 hours ago

That's what happens when you half ass your work.

[–] prongs@lemm.ee 4 points 10 hours ago

I know many people feel entrapped by streaming services, but I switched to Bandcamp like 10 years ago and have never been happier with my music habits. I buy music I like on Bandcamp Friday and store it locally on my PC/phone. Load up and take away as needed.

Sure, it's a bit more effort to purposefully seek new music, but I love that process. Makes it a very deliberate listening experience.

[–] Lasagna@lemmy.ml 6 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I though Orion was free to use?

[–] Sunny@slrpnk.net 2 points 5 hours ago

It is.

Guessing OP marked it as paid thinking it was because Kagi search engine is paid. Same developers.

[–] 13igTyme@lemmy.world 61 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Spotify donates to Trump and is overall horrible.

[–] oce@jlai.lu 22 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Deezer is a French alternative to Spotify, it pays artists a little bit more. https://www.musictrendz.com/post/which-streaming-service-pays-artists-the-most

[–] borusa@feddit.uk 4 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Access Industries has a 41.4% ownership of it. They also own Warner Music Group.

Also:

In 2015, the company donated $1.8 million to Super PACs supporting Republican presidential candidates Scott Walker and Lindsey Graham.[75]

[–] oce@jlai.lu 2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Sad to learn they are majorly USA owned then. Their offices are still mainly in Paris and the data is processed in France. I have been using them back and forth for more than a decade. At the beginning, you could upload your own library (including copyrighted albums) and make it available for streaming to other people, it was a fun time.

[–] aramova@infosec.pub 32 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

And they unironically say to join them on reddit.

[–] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 hours ago

They do call out switching to Lemmy in the graphic at least, thought that was pretty funny tho as well. Could link to a Lemmy community as well for the same thing

[–] Lumiluz@slrpnk.net 3 points 8 hours ago

My guess is that it's to reach the people on Reddit but not on anything else.

[–] Kualdir 2 points 11 hours ago

There's also the free ksuite mail/drive as a free email alternative!

[–] ABetterTomorrow@lemm.ee 28 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Spotify doesn’t belong in there at or or in the left being transitioned to another.

[–] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 1 points 2 minutes ago

free: arrr... (distant parrot noises)

[–] craig9@lemm.ee 7 points 15 hours ago

I have just changed from fastmail (Australian owned, but hosted in the US) to mailbox.org (German owned and hosted, as I understand it).

The reasoning is that I didn't want my email provider to be reliant on a US hosting service. This graphic has fastmail as a preferred choice though, and doesn't mention mailbox.org at all.

[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 9 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

MASTODON

[–] pfr@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 10 hours ago

Codamail.com

[–] viking@infosec.pub 12 points 20 hours ago

Of all the alternatives for gmail, why suggest another American solution? GMX (.com, .net, .de, .ch) has been around for 30 years, is fully German owned and hosted, and got both free and paid tiers just like mail.com.

[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

probably not the right place to ask but I can never view posts like this in full resolution. Like I zoom in and it's just blurry. Right now I'm using photon web front end to view the post on dbzer0.com

edit: oh this image is hosted on a third party image host. The image hosted on lemmy is just the thumbnail.