I gave up Briar for SimpleX, as really good as Briar is, because of only having one ID. On SimpleX, if you enable incognito, it will create a new random ID for each new contact that you message, so no 2 persons will see the same ID for you, they each see you as a different name.

Also SimpleX is on iOS and Android, Briar is only for Android, and SimpleX does calling with contacts.

Do you know about SimpleX?

@Nimbus @SteleTrovilo

Born one month after FreeBSD

I enjoy Session, I like what the network is trying to focus on. I gave Session due to having concerns from a libre software perspective.

I stick more with open source software and stay away from libre software, but given the kind privacy infustructure that Lokinet is trying to build, if the server/network should be under AGPLv3+ and Session shold be GPLv3 to help keep the network pure open source.

I gave up Session for SimpleX

Medal Of Honor 2010 & Call Of Duty 2

Always carry extra cash everyday to pay at stores, never have debit/credit card in wallet unless it's to withdraw more cash, never give stores your number or name to buy or reurn something, do not give legitimate info to register for a free store card, never register for a tap pay service on cellphone, buy a pre-paid credit card if you can buy it anonymously with cash, for Americans, use privacy.com for card masking.

If you exclusively use physical cash with change at stores and never give a name, there's no behaviour prediction to get from you or how to advertise to you. Online purchases are not as good for data mining and tracking because there's no geo location like paying with a card at a store that can be used to track your movements and at what time you were there.

Yeah, it's quie a goid app, I've also used Briar's bluetooth messaging, it works real well. I gave it up for SimpleX now since SimpleX can have a dfferent ID for each person I message.

Primarily Brave, on the odd occassion I might have to check Startpage, but Startpge seems to have a suspicious deal with Google, also Startpage requires a verification process if it detects a VPN or Tor.

SearX can be nice, but being an open search platform, the results can be wildly random bases on which instance of SearX you search on.

Every and all apps can be faked if there's no code verification to register, plus mass signup detection. For example 1,000 email registrations from name@me2.info, those are all fake.

A puzzle captcha combined with receiving an alphanumeric code verification seems to have a very high percentage of only real humans registering, that is if the company is not built on a scam from the very conception to get free investment money.

It's a broder societal cultural problem. No license can ever fix it. Companies and corporatons are made up of people, and if life has only taught them to wreck everybody they can, they will do their work with a mentality of exploiting any chance they to make sure only they succeed.

Any kind of long term fix to change corporations will take generations, not a legal standard.

There was a time when a verbal agreement and a handshake was an unbreakable commitment because people shared a common set of principals and personal values that bonded people together. It took generatios to destroy that sense of honour, it will take generations to get back to that. People are delusional if they think corporate exploitation can be fixed through courts, the law, or politics, only culture.

Check EU laws and German laws.

I believe it's a crime to present a fake ID to where verification for security purposes is required, but telling a person a different name is not or should not be a criminal offense.

You being Anne, there is no offense to sign up as Robert. But it is a crime for Anne to show Susie's ID for a package.

Amazon may be doing that for legitimate security reasons but also data mining purposes.

Thank you for countering me point by point, I fully respect. Even if you say that I'm wrong, I must always respect someone who argues point by point, and doesn't do the usual internet trash of "You sound stupid, you don't know anything".

I have seen in Trisquel Linux forums, they get irritated or offended for mentioning something that is not 100% open source. For example, if someone obviously new posts "I want to stop using Windows, will Trisquel help me to only use free software from now on?", to which the replies will be "Yes, but please don't mention that software in the forum here, we don't like that kind of promotion". I read that and my thought is "Dumbass, they were explaining their current situation and what background they are coming from in pursuit of trying to find guidance, they were not promoting anything."

At a certain point, people have to address the way the world is, not the way they want everything to be running. I would love to live in an exclusively BSD world with a heavy majority towards OpenBSD, along side FreeBSD to to run on all other systems. But in the mean time, since people who do all production work with various proprietary program, we have to live along side them.

My view is until free software can match the quality of a $100 million movie project as proprietary software vendors, libre software does not exist any any conversation with those people. A movie editor that makes a million dollars doing all of the editing work production does not care about software.

I think that's what I find puzzling, is how to libre/free software advocates not see that for people who get paid for their production work on computer all day, open source software is not an option. I am not going to criticize someone who uses various Adobe programs or Pro Tools for being able to produce better quality work in less time, and there is no libre software alternative for what those programs do.