In future, I will only send this link to @switchingsoftware when people ask me again what is good for what on the PC. Unfortunately, many still say they are skeptical, but in reality they are too lazy to learn and teach themselves.
Heute in der WhatsApp Gruppe einer Grundschule als Reaktion auf eine Mail von Eltern die eine Datenschutzfreundlichere Alternative zu WhatsApp haben wollen, damit Ihre Kinder nicht unnötig dem Risiko des Trackings ausgesetzt werden und Bilder Datenschutzfreundlich übermittelt werden.
Think there is no viable alternative to #capitalism? There is, and this is what I'm talking about!
"‘In the US they think we’re communists!’ The 70,000 workers showing the world another way to earn a living - The #Basque Country’s #Mondragón Corporation is the globe’s largest industrial #cooperative, with #workers paying for the right to share in its profits – and its losses. In return for giving more to their employer, they expect more back.
When Marisa Fernández lost her husband to cancer a few years ago, her employers at the Eroski hypermarket went, she says, “above and beyond to help me through the dark days afterwards, rejigging my timetable and giving me time off when I couldn’t face coming in.”
She had a chance to return the favour recently when the store, in Arrasate-Mondragón in Spain’s Basque Country, was undergoing renovations. Fernández, 58, who started on the cashier desk 34 years ago, and now manages the store’s non-food section, volunteered to work extra shifts over the weekend along with her colleagues to ensure everything was ready for Monday morning. “It’s not just me. Everyone is ready to go the extra mile,” she says.
Such harmonious employer-worker relations are the stuff of corporate dreams, and they are no accident here: the Eroski retail chain is part of Mondragón Corporation, the largest industrial co-op in the world. As a fully signed-up member, Fernández co-owns part of the supermarket chain that also employs her. “It feels like mine,” she says. “We work hard, but it’s a totally different feeling from working for someone else.”
That sentiment is echoed by Mondragón’s 70,000 other workers. Made up of 81 autonomous co-operatives, the corporation has grown since its creation in 1956 to become a leading force in the Basque economy. Eroski is one of its most conspicuous manifestations, with 1,645 outlets across Spain. In addition to food, the chain has profitable sidelines in white goods, electronics, insurance and holiday bookings."
It supports both links and embeds and is available on firefox for android. List of sites is on github. I'm the main developer so you can ask questions.
Both LibRedirect and Farside still have to deal with the rate-limiting problem with Youtube and Reddit and I assume other sites as well.
Invidious instance or Teddit instance can be rate-limited, resulting in video not playing or post not showing up.
If your extension does not distribute user traffic across multiple instances, then I assume that your chosen instances will get hammered into ratelimit even faster than other instances.
So consider thinking about solution for this.
One of suggestions that I like is to allow user to provide an URL to a list of instances.
That way, someone or some automated system can periodically compose a list of instances and users can "subscribe" to that list.
Predirect: A manifest v3 web extension with minimal permissions to automatically redirect popular sites to privacy friendly frontends ( github.com )
It supports both links and embeds and is available on firefox for android. List of sites is on github. I'm the main developer so you can ask questions.