WhatsApp is a proprietary messaging app developed for the Facebook Ecosystem.

The Android client is censoring videos. Should WhatsApp have a say in what media I share with my friends? Is WhatsApp really end to end encrypted? Why does it scan this in the first place?

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Facebook (WhatsCrap and Instagram) Track you around the web and create a shadow profile on you, sell your data to third parties and advertisers and are not stopping anytime soon. Be the change you want to see delete your Facebook/Instagram/WhatsApp account before it's too late.

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Brave out of the box feels bloated and overwhelming. But has great privacy features turned on by default.

In this video we will harden Brave, add some extensions, configure some flags & make it look minimal. It offers perfect compatibility with Google Chrome plus by blocking ads it pricks Google's control over the ad-infested web.

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Tor browser is the only real browser for 'Privacy'. It ships with strong anti-fingerprinting mitigations by default and masks your IP address. In addition to that - I showcase ungoogled-Chromium, Firefox & Brave. I also explain why you shouldn't use proprietary browsers like Edge, Safari & Google Chrome.

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This week Brave announced that they're developing their own independent search engine to compete with Google in the saturated search engine market. Most search engines piggyback on larger big tech search engines like Bing (Microsoft) and Yahoo for results - indexing the web is a mammoth task.

This would mean the 25 million monthly active Brave users would be introduced to a seamless native - Google level UX for the Brave ecosystem. They're also implementing some unique features under the code name 'Goggles' to let you experiment different perspectives for search results.

If this is open source and you can disable ads with uBlock Origin then this feels like good competition for DuckDuckGo! There's a beta sign up page on their website and is due to launch this June (Summer - USA).

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F-Droid is an App Store for Android which showcases a catalog of Free and Open Source Apps (FOSS). It serves as a freedom respecting alternative to Google Play.

It allows you to add custom repositories, share apps offline to nearby users locally and auto downloads updates over WiFi. Every app in the native F-Droid repository is audited by volunteers to check for anti-features, spyware and proprietary blobs. The distributed apps are 100% reproducible and enables the user to verify apps than blindly trusting.

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