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Listen to your LastFM recommendations on linux using: mpd, yt-dlp and bash; without having to open a browser. Jukebox is a quick little project I made over the weekend. Feel free to contribute if you know bash! ...

uBlock Origin - is a FOSS content / adblocker to navigate the modern bloated web. A web based on 'advertising' is is not sustainable. Respect your audience, optimiz...

The word 'Free' means freedom, not free of cost. Better represented by the French/Spanish word 'libre' or liberty. It's not the same as 'Open Source' or 'FOSS', that's a diluted term for free/libre software. The 'freedom' to do what you want, h...

Sometimes the answer isn't 'Going Big'. Rather than build new centralized platforms that will inevitably fail in proportion to their user base. Choose 'protocols' that can naturally scale and deliver the best for every person. Smaller tight knit c...

Honestly at this point Facebook is everywhere. If you think that you don't use Facebook you're probably wrong. They lie about their concern for your privacy. Facebook has to try to appeal to advertisers and users. Advertisers pay Facebook. Money s...

DRM - Digital Restrictions Management is a nasty way to get spied on and is a failure by design. Censoring Digital files is like trying to make water not wet. Spotify, Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, Steam, Apple, Google all bundle DRM and harm user freedo...

A simple HTML site, free of cost 🌐. No WiX, Squarespace, or any of the 'consumerized' website ecosystems which dilute the freedom & fun the web was built for! It doesn't matter if you're a 'coder' or 'programmer' Just follow the video, fill in y...

NextDNS is a DNS resolver that works on all your devices, filter ads, trackers, websites. Inspect outbound network requests and stop apps from pinging back home to #BigTech adtech companies. Use it on all your devices, configure it to block networ...

LibreWolf is a fork of Firefox - focused on privacy, security and freedom. Features privacy oriented search engines like DuckDuckGo by default. It comes bundled out of the box with uBlock Origin and is configured to improve the defaults Mozilla Fi...

NewPipe is a powerful client for YouTube. Play videos ad free and reduce the trackers, analytics and data Google can mine off of your device. You can download my videos, (be sure to check its respective license here: https://polarhive.ml/videos/no...

WhatsApp is a proprietary messaging app developed for the Facebook Ecosystem. The Android client is censoring videos. Should WhatsApp have a say in what media I share with my friends? Is WhatsApp really end to end encrypted? Why does it scan t...

Facebook (WhatsCrap and Instagram) Track you around the web and create a shadow profile on you, sell your data to third parties and advertisers and are not stopping anytime soon. Be the change you want to see delete your Facebook/Instagram/WhatsAp...

Brave out of the box feels bloated and overwhelming. But has great privacy features turned on by default. In this video we will harden Brave, add some extensions, configure some flags & make it look minimal. It offers perfect compatibility wit...

Tor browser is the only real browser for 'Privacy'. It ships with strong anti-fingerprinting mitigations by default and masks your IP address. In addition to that - I showcase ungoogled-Chromium, Firefox & Brave. I also explain why you shouldn't u...

This week Brave announced that they're developing their own independent search engine to compete with Google in the saturated search engine market. Most search engines piggyback on larger big tech search engines like Bing (Microsoft) and Yahoo fo...

F-Droid is an App Store for Android which showcases a catalog of Free and Open Source Apps (FOSS). It serves as a freedom respecting alternative to Google Play. It allows you to add custom repositories, share apps offline to nearby users locall...