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- April 14, 2018

1. Vivaldi
2. Firefox
3. Opera
4. Chrome
5. Internet Explorer
6. Edge
7. Safari

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DuckDuckGo, the search engine that doesn't track you

- May 13, 2018

Google tracks you. Google tracks your search queries and sends them to third parties and advertisers. Google is also a third-party tracker on 75% of sites. So Google is not just tracking what you search, but also what websites you visit. Based on that information collected, Google follows you around with ads. Google tracks you even in Incognito Mode. So it is not really "incognito." DuckDuckGo on the other hand doesn't track you - period. It doesn't collect any private information. Not all websites respect the "Do Not Track" signal. DuckDuckGo is not just a search engine, but also a browser extension that blocks trackers. It states the privacy practices of the website you're on unless the privacy practices are unknown. It shows you the privacy grade. You can also make a whitelist of what websites you want to be tracked on. Google tracks you. I don't know about Bing or Yahoo! DuckDuckGo doesn't track you. Take your privacy back at DuckDuckGo Sorr...

Promote against iTunes/Apple Music and for competing products like Spotify, Amazon, and others

- April 28, 2018

I promote against iTunes and Apple Music. Promote for Amazon, Spotify, Google Play, Groove Music, and Pandora. iTunes is not available for Linux. Nor is it available for Windows Phone. GNU/Linux is a great, flexible OS. Linux is better than Windows and Mac at many things. The more popular Apple Music becomes, the fewer people move to Linux. Apple doesn't play nice on platforms other than MacOS, TVOS, and iOS. Apple Music also doesn't have a web player. Apple tries to push us to the Apple community. iTunes also uses M4P, making it not easy to transfer your iTunes music to other music players. Get a premium subscription with iTunes Match, so you can convert M4P to MP3 and AAC. Edit: Apple removed the DRM in 2009. But music downloaded before 2009 will still have DRM. Promote also for music players that support non-MPEG, non-restricted formats. Too bad Style JukeBox was discontinued. I would like it to be recontinued, that is, have development restored. Also, promote for Clementine...