Brands and corporations you try to stay as far way we possible, putting in every effort to not touch them. For me, in rough order of importance: >google, with the one exception of AOSP >facebook >microsoft, except on VMs with carefully controlled network traffic >apple >nvidia's software, except on the aforementioned windows VMs >github >tor
I'd really like to add Intel and nvidia's hardware to the list, but for the latter it will have to wait until I next upgrade and the former isn't gonna happen until my thinkpad dies. At least the latter has no IME.
>Tacens. Awful power supplies and gayming brand >L-Link: Low quality peripherials that last 2 days before something stops working >Logitech: less durable peripherials that what you'd expect from such a reputable brand. not a bad brand per se but id buy gamepads or sim stuff from other companies so it lasts more without breaking.
Sebastian Cook
also curious about this, aside from tor not being as secure as people think
Owen Johnson
Apple and ubuntu
Josiah Bell
> Apple > Microsoft (post-Win7) > Google > Facebook
Kevin Johnson
>Intel >Seagate >Samsung >Facebook >HP
Christopher Fisher
Microsoft bought Github, Tor is a CIA honeypot.
Noah Butler
>seagate it is because of defective HD right? where is the proof for Tor being a CIA honeypot?
Kevin Wilson
>where's da proofs everywhere
Caleb Diaz
>where is the proof for Tor being a CIA honeypot? It isn't, but many nodes are compromised.
Matthew Moore
>Nvidia the only product from them I'd buy is the Shield TV Pro >Intel shitty SSD died on me, also all the exploits coming out recently and being aware of the hardware backdoor on the CPUs themselves really turned me away from them, coming from a 4590k owner, also their MB designs are utter shit >Beats overpriced for what it is >BOSE same as Beats >Apple again, read above >Samsung phones mainly, don't want botnet IoT appliances in my house either
Blake Bennett
>github Closed source server, tons of shitty JS, and active community policing and CoC enforcing, all for a really simple service that could very easily be fully free and open source. It's not as bad as some other offenders (microsoft acquisition aside, since I've been avoiding it long before that) but the cost to avoiding it is so low (I've literally never been inconvenienced at all by the fact that I choose to host elsewhere) that there's no reason to use it.
>tor Several issues. Firstly, it's promoted as a super secure proxy for the clearnet, when its security in that regard is actually doubtful (including both the possibility that a well funded agency could control a majority - or even just a non-negligible portion - of exit points, as well as timing attacks). The clearnet is fucked anyway, and i2p is superior.
Secondly, the anti-fingerprinting is retarded: it forces everyone to be the same rather than trying to randomise everyone. Sure, it would be slightly harder to make sure values are faked or randomized believably, but it would vastly improve usability - as well as avoid broadcasting to everyone that you're using Tor Browser. As it stands they might as well use their own user-agent.
And finally, the lack of action against paedos. I wouldn't say anything about this if they hadn't started a huge shitstorm to censor a political opinion (granted, a retarded one). Either you support freedom from censorship and all the unsavoury things that come with it, or you try to allow for a "cleaner" environment (like ipfs with their built-in support for blacklists); but if you go midway and try to police things you don't agree with, but turn a blind eye to CP hosting, then that implicitly means you agree with, and support, paedos.
>Tl;dr: tor is made by literal paedophiles I doubt this to be true, but I'm guessing that the pedos, and sjws have over infiltrated it now.
Blake Nelson
This thread was created to discreditthe tor project, by OP, the NSA shill.
Jose Ward
I meant it as a slight exaggeration, but they clearly invited that conclusion themselves so I don't see the problem with considering them paedos even if they aren't really.
What's wrong with i2p, freenet, gnunet, etc? >inb4 freenet is full of CP It is but unlike tor they never tried to censor anything at all, ever, so I can't fault the project for what its users did. And the other two are valid options.
If you don't know what any website or device is doing with your personal information, you shouldn't trust any of them. As a matter of fact, you should trust no one. Trust this sentence at least. Trust no one.
If you're smart and kind, make the world a better and freer place for everyone. Because we all know wageys make the world a depressing place. Apple and Microsoft are co opted wage slave palaces.
>What's wrong with i2p, freenet, gnunet, etc? >i2p Nothing that I can think of >freenet Small user base >gnunet Small user base >etc Even smaller user base I'd like to point out that I haven't heard of anyone getting sent to court while using these other options.
Justin Long
stopped using facebook. trying to stop using google, which is hard since i use android. oh and never use tor unironically because its made by literal gay jews and its compromised.
Microsoft Google Facebook AMD/Intel/Nvidia cartel Amazon HP
Asher Cook
lelnovo intel apple microsoft gigabyte nvidia canonical redhat
Owen Hall
Microsoft, Sony (phone), oneplus, Motorola, AMD, Samsung
Owen Torres
>Twitter Stupid fucking site full of SJWs >Asrock Their motherboards break after 6 months, you get what you pay for. >Nvidia Only buy their shit used >Apple After my 3 month old ipad stopped charging and they wanted me to trade it in for a new one for 300 bucks
Luke Kelly
google samsung (shitty shady chaebol bribes/whatnot) lg (same as samsung) anything chinese anything russian uber lyft disney after what they did to james gunn I... think that's it? I'm sure there will be more the more shady shit I discover corporations doing
