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Apart from this obvious problem, there is also a problem of freedom: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html

You should try I2P, it is very similar to the old Internet.

>Firefox makes money by its search deal with Google

Of course, development costs a lot. They will not need to rely on Google in the future if more people donate to them regularly. Consider donating to Firefox.

>In our current internet, we need a big brother like Google or Bing to effectively find any relevant information in exchange for sharing with them our search history, browsing habits etc.

The evil big brothers may not be necessary. We just need to expand alternative search engines like YaCy.

If you are talking about personal CO2 imprint, then here you go: http://www.kimnicholas.com/uploads/2/5/7/6/25766487/fig1full...

> Is it a problem that Technology can solve (I'm thinking about startup in the privacy field)

Probably yes, at least in part. See https://puri.sm.

Maybe it was true a hundred years ago, but it is not true today, unfortunately. Science became much more complicated.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20190468

There should be definitely some exceptions from this legislation as usually.

I am not sure this would be as useful as the new method of "pre-registered studies" [0], where the null findings appear automatically in the publications. Null findings are not the goal of this approach, but a side effect. Important are the initial hipotheses, which pass peer-review.

[0] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07118-1 via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18297724

Probably not the answer you would expect, but one very simple action you could do is to sign/share this petition: https://publiccode.eu.

This is a very sad state of affairs, therefore I would like to bring your attention to a petition towards open sourcing all scientific (and generally tax-paid) software:

https://publiccode.eu

The topic under discussion is response to any serious disaster, not specifically civilian.

> Can you imagine that the US would have been able to respond like this? Either today or in the 80s? I can't.

You are exactly right:

U.S. put nuclear waste under a dome on a Pacific island. Now it’s cracking open (washingtonpost.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19959889

YaCy is not a meta-search engine.

>great option for all the spectrum (From Google search to DuckDuckGo)

You probably mean from SearX to YaCy.

No. Here is what we actually should do: http://www.kimnicholas.com/uploads/2/5/7/6/25766487/fig1full...

Upd: apart from the carbon tax, of course.

So Apple goes the opposite way compared with Purism: making different OS for every device. What's the point?

Check out recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20050764

> Anyone who didn't think this was happening is simply not paying attention.

This is not so simple. Previous replies to similar claims: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20052749 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20052851

"In scientific and academic language, may is often used to talk about typical occurrences - things that can happen in certain situations."

https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/22134/can-could-vs-m...

Because https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20044430&p=2

> Gmail alternatives

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20005980

> Maps

https://openstreetmap.org

Perhaps https://yacy.net could help you.

But what do you do with our personal information entered?

Not sure if popular, but Librem One is very promising.

I guess one could use openstreetmap data here, since they have pretty comprehensive coverage of bus stops, at least in Europe.

What is "too much" and "pseudo" about their activism? Yes, they indeed directly benefit from that. What is wrong with having a privacy-respecting monetization?

One can also buy refurbished smartphones with Replicant:

https://tehnoetic.com/mobile-devices

Install Privacy Badger and HTTPS Everywhere in their browser.