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This is very specific and niche without a good reason to exist, so I doubt this exists.
This is very specific and niche without a good reason to exist, so I doubt this exists.
What are some of the competitive closed source proprietary apps they’re referring to?
Firefox
5 hours of effort, hundreds of hours of swagging on everyone who can’t pull that off.
I used to self host Bitwarden, but didn’t want the hassle of securing it and updating it properly and consistently. So I just pay $10 for bitwarden premium and I get to support the company.
The title implied that Searx is not privacy preserving or open source, both of which it is.
What
gandi.net , didn’t haven’t to pay for any privacy bullshit like whois masking, and all that stuff is enabled by default. I like them as a company.
In my experience these tend to stop working pretty fast. Instagram would shut down all the proxies on the last project really fast.
That’s weird, I’ve never had that issue
Discord. God I hate that program, but everyone I know uses it.
There’s definitely exceptions. I paid $70 for the new Zelda tears of the kingdom. Just beat it at 175 hours and it was easily my goty.
Reminder that Microsoft is trying to shift Windows to be entirely cloud based, so this can easily happen overnight without your consent. You don’t own your OS. Linux is the only way, unless you’re one of those strange BSD folks.
Web engines are so insanely complex that you can’t just create a new viable competitor without millions on fundings. They’re practically as complex as operating systems themselves.