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Proton Mail says it’s “politically neutral” while praising Republican Party

My stance on Proton is my stance on GrapheneOS: just because the creator is bad doesn't mean the software is bad. As long as the software is better compared to the alternatives then I seen no reason to stop using it.

Note: better can mean more privacy-friendly, cost-friendly, sustainable, nice to use, open, etc.

Oddly enough, I found the opposite to be true with companies like Nestle: the news of them killing children makes me dislike their chocolates.

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it works! only 99.99$!

For those looking for some Google alternatives:

  • Qwant has a custom indexing strategy and is okay
  • Brave Search uses Google and Bing EDIT: they use a custom index too
  • Startpage uses Google and Bing and it’s prettier than Brave IMO
  • SearX is ugly but has a lot of sources
  • Perplexity AI tracks the shit out of you but it’s decent
  • Kagi is customizable but it costs you

Feel free to add on any I missed or opinions on these; I haven’t used any extensively

EDIT: Ecosia for trees and DDG for Bing without ads

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Bad dog!

I like how the author left it up to interpretation of whether the dog killed the human, because there’s no panel of the shot going off. For all we know, the dog is smoking from the gun, and the man is taking a nap.