Seth for Privacy podcast just had an episode promoting Kagi, which was marketed as an alternative to Google search: But a DNS lookup, shows they are literally hosted on Google Cloud: I like Seth, so I'm sure this was an honest mistake. But nothing helps vigilance like competition. So add our team's podcast to your RSS feed to encourage healthy debate: RSS:

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With Bitcoin Rising, It's never been more critical to secure your wallets with Linux... With Nostr Rising in Popularity, It's never been more critical to keep ownership of your identity... Switching to Linux is the single greatest thing you can do for your privacy and freedom. But Big Tech doesn't want you to know this. Their recommendations via search, podcast, and youtube want to keep you trapped in their own ecosystems. Even worse, in Linux groups on Lemmy and Reddit, there should be critical education. Instead these Radical-Left moderators flex their totalitarian censorship muscles, by oppressing any tutorial that even mentions Bitcoin and personal sovereignty. Despite the odds, Simplified Privacy attempts to overcome all obstacles to reach you. And in this Linux 101 podcast episode, You get: A) how Linux works explained to you in the most simple and intuitive ways B) methods of switching over, and even some good hardware vendors C) a kickass motivational pep talk to empower you to learn D) Understand software types, in under 10 minutes. Add this RSS feed, with undeniable value, to your podcast app:

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Get going with Linux! Great for n00bs. Synaptic, AppImage, Flatpak

100k Bitcoin. Congrats! Some may accuse me of trying to front-run the other 100k posts, But in fact, it's above 100k on the No-KYC peer-to-peer markets... So you're saying to me: "You're front-running social media posts!" And I'm responding "No, if you're selling it on the KYC exchange, then the taxes knock it down to 90k. So, don’t post congrats till 110k"

US DoJ ruled Google must sell Chrome, as part of it's anti-trust case. [1][3] The Chrome division would be sold off, with some analysts at Bloomberg citing $20 billion as a potential price-tag. The DoJ left the door open for selling Android as well in the future. [1][3] This is a mixed reaction from me, as on the one hand it's supposedly a private company, On the other, Google received government money, has contracts with governments, and has massive political influence. So if they are seed funded by DARPA when they first started, and regularly acting as the NSA's IT department, at what point are they no longer private? My previous article on this:

9 Dangers of Google’s Power | Simplified Privacy

This is why Privacy is so important... it's not just the company collecting it.. it's unknowns Quote CBSNews: "Regulators also want Google to share data it collects from people's queries with its rivals, giving them a better chance at competing with the tech giant." [2] Evil Google News, points out that this extends to AI as well, "The Justice Department’s efforts also include proposals to forestall Google’s control over future technology developments in AI. They may require Google to make its indexes, data and models used for search and AI features accessible to competitors and proposes restrictions on Google’s agreements that could limit other AI firms’ access to web content." [3] Sources:

DoJ: Google must sell Chrome | Simplified Privacy

Poll: Should Google be broken up by the government? As they are a political actor, that got federal funds. Or should we honor free markets, and the only way to get rid of their political influence is voluntary opt-out? View quoted note →

Security = protecting institutions from evil individuals Privacy = protecting individuals from evil institutions But, If an institution can do anything an individual can do, plus more Then, Privacy is harder than security, even though the customer has less resources to pay. Yet, Privacy is often treated like the toilet at rock concert. Only touch it, if you NEED IT BAD

Hey sorry to interrupt your Bitcoin memes, I just wanted to tell you that, I love you before, WE ALL DIE FROM JOE BIDEN'S INSANE FUCKING MISSILE STRIKES

If Joe Biden is too old to run again, He's too senile to order missile strikes No dude... this is not Russian propaganda or far-right conspiracy. It's common sense

Joe Biden authorizing missiles into Russia is reckless and irresponsible, he was voted out of office over this issue. The US started the Ukraine war in 2014 with an illegal violent Nazi coup. No, it’s not “Russian propaganda” to say: Avoid Nuclear War

The first sign that your idea is bullshit, Is when you attack the other speaker People are irrelevant. All that matters is the ideas they represent

Google removed words from their translation dictionary so that Donald Trump's tweets seemed insane, and then the 25th amendment could be used to remove a crazy man from office In sharp contrast, Senile Joe Biden is authorizing ballistic missiles that threaten nuclear war with Russia, has Google results that barely or lightly criticize him

Want to Die? Joe Biden approved US long-range missiles to be used to strike inside Russia, which if used, would likely lead to Nuclear War Biden has shown a complete disregard for democracy, as he just lost an election, which overwhelming voted to END the war, and reduce US involvement. Instead, corrupt Biden insists on increasing tension, before he's thrown out of office, to prevent ceasefire, and benefit military industrial contractors. In doing so, he endangers ALL FUCKING HUMAN LIFE as Russia has vowed to return blows on Kiev, which would force the whole thing to become Nuclear. I urge you to discuss this issue with those in your social circle, in whatever country you are in.

Everyday I open up Nostr and my timeline is filled with Pro Bitcoin memes and slogans, But rarely do you guys post education on how to setup and balance lightning channels, and whats required on setting up a node. I've never seen a single person discuss the cost minimums of swapping into lightning vs buying channels on-chain. Rather than treat Monero users like they don't exist or are shit-fucking-homeless.. actually show us how to use lightning

Explain it to me in the least amount of words Our VPN lets you stay private, even when the website wants to prevent you from doing so. ~~~~ Explain it to me like an Elevator Pitch On the client, Simplified Privacy lets you manage different undetectable browser fingerprint identities On the server, Simplified Privacy uses small 1-country "underdog" datacenters, that AVOIDS situations where the website you're visiting, uses the same large datacenter router as your VPN Together, By splitting up your traffic up to different underdogs, combined with using different fingerprints, it presents a realistic, yet easy-to-use solution, to the rising threat of AI surveillance ~~~~ Explain it to me like a TV commercial QubesOS is a pain in the ass to manage. Do you hate setting up new virtual machines? Well unlike virtual machines or containers which slow down performance during use, are slow to load, and suck up storage space, With Simplified Privacy, in a single click, and with zero performance drag, you can create multiple realistic identities, which each have their own graphical display screen size and isolated filesystem, which are then routed to different countries, have the timezone match, and with different $1 burner VPN billing codes. That's right, try it out for just $1/month in Monero or Bitcoin Lightning. No Email required. Fully open source from day 1. And they didn't even print shitcoins! ~~~~ Explain it to me like I'm exiting the Matrix Neo, You think there are all these different websites, But they are all Cloudflare. And Cloudflare trains AI to recognize you based on your browser fingerprint. Neo, You think there are all these different VPNs, But they all use the same large providers, like M247 and DataPacket. Mullvad, IVPN, Proton, Nord, TorGuard, and others all use M247 for many locations such as New York. And even worse, the WEBSITES you're visiting often use the SAME providers as your VPN. So it goes: You -> M247 VPN -> Cloudflare -> M247 VPS Can you handle the truth Neo? Because you're passing through the same providers with the same browser fingerprint to Cloudflare, nearly everything you do is surveilled, even if you're using a VPN. What if I told you that the very people who you're trying to evade, designed the systems that the most famous provider uses? But now that you know this Neo, you have a choice. If you take the blue pill, You can keep using Mullvad's government-browser and feel safe. Or you can take the red pill, And try Simplified Privacy. ~~~~ Explain it to me like a Teenage Girl My school banned Chat GPT! I could lose my upcoming college scholarship if they find out I’m using it! So you know how VPNs hide your IP address or where your traffic is coming from? I learned the websites don’t just see this IP address. They also do browser fingerprinting, which is analyzing everything about you. It’s got the Screen size, browser version, time zone, probe for relevant cookies, and even some complex AI stuff to make a unique identifier of the browser. You thought Cindy was a loud mouth? LOL They sell the fingerprints. Before I thought it was like totally anonymous. But even though you are sharing this IP address with other people, you might be like the only one coming out of that British VPN IP with a Miami clock, with 1280x800 resolution, and that exact browser version or whatever. Totally insane right? OMG like if we login with that same browser to our school Gmail, or anything tied to our real names, even though we’re using a VPN, it like brands the fingerprint to be tracked. But then my boyfriend showed me Simplified Privacy. ~~~~ Explain it to me like a Crypto-Anarchist These corrupt government thugs want to track our every move like dogs with a collar. All these VPN companies are lying assclowns, they use the same cloud providers, like M247 and DataPacket. The NSA can't tap every router on the planet earth. So they focus on the routers and switches of the largest providers in each country, and then the same provider is both the VPN, and the website you're visiting. For example, Discord is hosted on DataPacket. So if you use Mullvad for Discord, then DataPacket sees your real residential IP and ALL Discord data. It's a pure conflict of interest to hide from the company with that same company. Plus it's a one-stop shop for global court orders. Speaking of which, by using large international providers, the country of the VPN doesn't matter anymore. For example DataPacket is Mullvad's Mexico exit, but it's a UK/US company. So you ain't hiding in Mexico, you're getting a UK or USA court order. And even worse, when you do an audio call on SimpleX, XMPP, Signal, or anything it uses WebRTC. WebRTC is connecting you and the person you're talking to peer-to-peer. This means there's a good chance M247 is seeing the IPs of both people, since every other VPN also uses M247. And then you're doxxing BOTH SIDES of the conversation by these large providers, even if it's SimpleX. Mullvad is lying bro. They mouth off about being in Sweden, but M247 is all over the US, with the web panel going through Cloudflare. US Cloudflare is seeing Mullvad's customer panel and communication with M247, and Mullvad even rented servers using a Gmail. Even worse, CIA contractors like Oracle buy and sell Browser Fingerprints tied to our names and data. Some weak script kiddie clowns try to evade using: 1) "user-agent spoofing", aka lying 2) blocking access The issue with user-agent spoofing is that you're essentially bullshitting with your words only. The website asks you, "hey what's your screen dimensions?", and you just straight up lie in their face. This is shockingly ineffective, because websites will test you by having you render graphics, or access the browser via JavaScript. Google Captcha and Cloudflare both have AI to spesifically identify your bullshit. So with "user agent spoofing", your fingerprint sticks out even more, because you got your regular fingerprint combined with the bullshit user-agents. For example now you're really 1080x800 resolution with a Miami clock, Swiss IP, Brave v1.7 but LIES with a 800x800 bullshit resolution, bullshit UK clock, and bullshit Firefox user-agent. That's even more unique you dipshit! In fact, user-agent spoofing is so worthless, that the "Chameleon" browser extension, which relies purely on user-agent spoofing, literally white-lists Google and Cloudflare. In other words, the most popular user-agent spoofer literally GIVES UP and doesn't EVEN TRY to deceive the MOST COMMON AND POPULAR tech companies. The other common technique is blocking. This is what LibreWolf, Brave, and the government-created Tor-browser that Mullvad leeches. Weak Mullvad can't even develop their own tech, they lease it from the US military. The issue is you're blocking technology many websites use. So most websites break, or are an epic pain in the ass to use. In fact, Brave's newer versions stopped even offering "Strict" mode for fingerprinting, because it broke so many sites. Some turn to virtual machines to deceive websites. The problem with this is that it consumes massive time to set up the virtual machines, time to start them up every day, and wastes system resources. Because it wastes CPU and RAM, it's not only slower to use, but also slower to load. And it prevents you from having many open at once. Instead, I've been using Simplified Privacy. At first I thought they were just a bunch of assclowns mouthing off obvious stuff for SEO to sell Graphene phones. But then I saw their new VPN. This thing creates a second new lightweight graphical environment, that realistically hides from browsers your actual screen size. While having instant load and zero resource consumption or disc space. Unlike Mullvad-Tor Browser, where you accidentally make it full-screen and the jig is up. Simplified Privacy even puts this 2nd new graphical environment in a virtual cage, so you can’t fuck up. And to the website, it doesn’t appear to be spoofed. Then they isolate the filesystem in this fake environment, to control what files that application sees and uses in order to improve privacy. And finally establish an exclusive, secure, connection for the browser to hide your actual location. Cloudflare ain't got shit on me. ~~~~ Explain it like Cloudflare Hi, I'm a Junior Communications Analyst for Cloudflare Inc. SimplifiedPrivacy is trying to abuse baseless conspiracy theories to paint our AI detection as nefarious. In reality, our AI can protect your website from DDoS attacks. Our AI already assigns a trust score to every IP address, and someday every device. SimplifiedPrivacy claims using our service is quote "joining the borg". But if you're doing nothing wrong, you have nothing to hide. And we delay or block Tor users to deal with rising cybersecurity threats. While SimplifiedPrivacy's rhetoric is harmful misinformation, their service actually HELPS us. Because they offer Tor -> Socks5 proxy routing. This enables end-users to enjoy the privacy of Tor, while allowing us to easily block SimplifiedPrivacy's IP addresses, IF they refuse to stop DDoS coming through them. So if you're complaining about our treatment of Tor users, then go use SimplifiedPrivacy. ~~~~ Explain it like a Mullvad fanatic PrivacyGuides-org recommends Mullvad. Yes Mullvad used Gmail to buy servers and do customer service, but as PrivacyGuides-org responded on their forums, it was a paid account so Google doesn't scan it. While I dislike their marketing, I like that Simplified Privacy uses different datacenters and providers than Mullvad and the other VPNs. This way, I can continue to use Mullvad for my system-wide traffic. And then use Simplified Privacy for just the browser, so I know have two completely different hops. Because Simplified Privacy hates Mullvad so much, I know they aren't colluding. And this is much easier than Qubes. ~~~~ Explain it like Qubes I'm Joanna Rutkowska the creator of QubesOS and author of InvisibleThings. SimplifiedPrivacy is obsessed with my blog post from 2011 that: There's a huge flaw in Linux, that ALL programs can see the display for ALL other programs. This means ANY software you run, can see your password manager like KeePass. Visually looking at all your KeePass entries, to know about your whole life. Even worse, all programs share the keyboard, so it means a non-sudo program can capture the sudo password. Or even see what's going on in a sudo terminal. Linux still has this problem a decade later. Qubes protects you against this, and that's what you should be using if you're worried about running untrusted software. I'm not endorsing them, and I didn't audit it. But SimplifiedPrivacy claims to protect against these problems, since they create a 2nd graphical display, but it's more-so targeted at browser break-out. But why don't you stop using my name, and stand up for your own project? ~~~~ Explain it in my own words Mullvad executives were born in Sweden. Fine, good for them. I'm moving countries to do this. Goodbye to my family dude. Learn a new language. It's fuckin real. I told the girl I was dating, I can't marry her. It's not fair to her, I don't have the time to devote to her. This project is my child. I sold the shirt off my back to make this happen. We're running on PGP-debt now. The engineers took a fraction of what they can make in the fiat corporate world, doing it for the love. But now that debt is coming due, and with 10 servers running, I've got to persuade enough people to: a) Use Linux b) Use Cryptocurrency c) Use this on Linux with Crypto Or we will go bankrupt, and my dream will die. But regardless of if it succeeds, I am so proud of the team for making it. And if I'm crazy enough to start it, I'm crazy enough to think it might work. So if you want to see this happen: Smash that repost, and let's spread the knowledge to our Nostr family.

I have to tell you something For the past 3 years, our team of 3-4 devs and artists have been working on an original VPN. I did not tell you about this before, because to be honest with you, I didn't know if we would succeed For technical, financial, and logistical reasons. It was so hard, I can't even begin to tell you the problems we overcame. But it's like that old Thomas Edison quote, "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work" And despite the odds, our crew has passed the largest hurdles. This thing is a beast. It solves many of the issues going on, and it has so many amazing features that I could not be more excited to show it to you. Today, we are proud to shout from the top of the roof-tops, OUR ALPHA TEST IS GOING ON NOW: this is for regulars in our chats, As soon as we clear bugs, OUR BETA TEST WILL BE: FOCUSED ON LINUX You can use other platforms with the config files, but our client and it's features are for Linux. Linux is usually neglected as an afterthought. Our goal is to provide such value, that more people switch over. OPEN TO THE PUBLIC NO EMAIL REQUIRED. IN-APP PAYMENTS XMR or Bitcoin Lightning. No Fiat. OPEN SOURCE FROM DAY 1 you can even use it as a Python file, without compiling it. This means you can modify the UI, even without coding knowledge swapping graphics. The focus of our upcoming content will be teaching you why and how these features work. Tune in