The original claim was about tracking (“escape the big tech tracking”), so here AWS and Cloudflare are definitely relevant. The content, including input, also flows through them I think? It’s specifically unencrypted if I get it right.

Thanks for your comment. I’m still only learning how legislation in the EU works. However, so far I haven’t been able to confirm what you’re saying. Could you help if you know? (I assume not only me, but possibly other readers, too)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_the_European_Union

Here it doesn’t say (almost) anything about “trade”. Admittedly I’ve only read 2-3 pages and then used Ctrl+F to search on the rest of the page though… Is it a de-facto split between the legislative powers of the Council and the Parliament? Where to read about it?

there is little doubt that EU chat control will be implemented

Personally, I believe there’s a chance for stopping this. EU is not an authoritarian state. I wouldn’t give up too early – instead would rather fight and provide public pressure for the direction of the law that supports mine and everybody’s freedom.

A much better and desired solution is to stop this law from ever happening by societal pressure, in my personal opinion. I wasn’t born in the EU, but I live here many years now. I choose to believe that EU isn’t fully corrupted, and that many good and meaningful changes are still happening.

If Europe doesn’t fight back strongly enough, Chat Control will be one such thing. All your messages being scanned by a “black box” system. Hopes are on the European Parliament and societal pressure to cancel this now. https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/reality-check-eu-council-chat-control-vote-is-not-a-retreat-but-a-green-light-for-indiscriminate-mass-surveillance-and-the-end-of-right-to-communicate-anonymously/

escape the big tech tracking by installing uBlock Origin

Cloudflare and AWS say “Hi” 👋

UBO is a very good tech that I strongly recommend too though. Just gotta be aware of its limits.

(If you’re ashamed to explicitly point out your country, then… I think you have to deal with that anyway. I don’t know if fighting against the bad actors in your country is a feasible strategy; it’s too easy to give poor advice from far away, imagining yourself an expert where in reality you’re not, so I’m not recommending anything.)

Sorry, *your* president, not mine. I don’t live in the US.

Why should we care about an AI tailored to that one person whom many consider a fascist?

Negative publicity is also publicity. Please let’s rather ignore this stupidity.

There’s also OpenRA Romanov’s Vengeance, for people looking for this type of stuff. A WIP though, same as this project I think.

Wow! Now that is something that’s nice to see!

Instead of “we’ve inserted AI into your AI so that you can run more AI while you’re running AI”.

Wait, this is LibreWolf we’re speaking about. Have you unchecked these two? (see screenshot)

UPDATE: The upper checkbox seems to flip browser.translations.enable in about:config. Librewolf even demands you do a full browser restart after unchecking. Combined with the name of the property, I think it’s a win for you! I mean, that this thing really disables translations from ever executing.

UPDATE 2: Admittedly it’s not pre-disabled though. But clearly exposed in the settings.

Noteworthy, Librewolf pre-disables the AI nonsense for you. (Local offline translations, the only actually useful feature that uses LLMs, is kept.)

In Librewolf there is no AI ^^

At least not out-of-the-box. Dunno if you can dig it up via about:config. Not via normal Settings I think.

F-Droid has a copy of the source code I assume.

Good question, and I’m not fully sure. I think it may be the messengers, E2E or not. I hope it’s not the hardware providers such as Samsung/Apple, because those wouldn’t be trustworthy.

It’s not a full ending yet. It’s a local win. But the possibility for the proposed “voluntary” surveillance is still discussed. We need to push until April 2026 to make sure this sh*t doesn’t get through in any shape or form.

I’ve also edited the post slightly, adding a TL&DR; on top.

I’ve found that the other replies don’t really express my personal take on this, so I’ll go ahead and write mine down.

First of all, and it’s important, people’s take on such topics is heavily dependent on the country they live in. It’s legitimately hard to imagine why you would want to break government rules hard and be a good person if you live somewhere in Norway. And it’s legitimately hard to imagine a world where you really trust your government and think that the current levels of censorship is actually good if you live in a dictatorship country.

With this in mind, a comfortable and universal level of censorship simply doesn’t exist.

I think the lack of Tor support is valid criticism if you’re in a dictatorship. Of course, DNS-based solutions are not good-enough for you. I hope you’ll find something that solves your problems. Unfortunately a simple Lemmy instance is not a solution for you.

Generally, if I’d advise something, I’d suggest to look at what the project actually aims to do, not at what you think it should be doing. E.g. visit https://join-lemmy.org/ and there it says:

Lemmy is a selfhosted social link aggregation and discussion platform. It is completely free and open, and not controlled by any company. This means that there is no advertising, tracking,…

Well, does it sound like a solution made for people in heavily censored environments? To me – not. If you want to present your case and incentivize the Lemmy devs to ADD another perspective or direction to the software that they’re spending time developing, prepare your case and argumentation well. Explain your situation (e.g. “I’ll be hung if I speak freely where I live”, or more relevant, “my country heavily DNS-censors 90% of the good existing Lemmy instances, I’m deprived of good information you have circling here”), propose some solutions or offer help. I don’t know really. It’s up to you. Good luck with your seach

I think/hope it was a joke.

But none that I’d like or find healthy, to be honest.

I confirm, I’ve personally edited a post 3 times over until a day later I’ve understood what’s exactly happening: https://lemmy.ml/post/37434570