Borating

Snoopers Charter - Very public toilet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-RSravgi_Y

If Signal was federated anyone could write a signal client to openBSD or Alpine Linux.

Vendor lock in. I will not touch any IM services that is not completly open (client and server) and federated. I am looking for matrix.org that uses Olm [1] for E2E encryption.

[1] https://matrix.org/git/olm

Check https://www.reddit.com/r/AntiFacebook

What I am worried about is that Facebook/Google/Microsoft/Amazon/Apple are copying the same model [1]. These companies are killing the open web.

[1] How China Is Changing Your Internet (The New York Times) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAesMQ6VtK8

Instead of hosts file, use dnsmasq that support wilcard extensions. See FreeContributor [1]

[1] https://github.com/tbds/FreeContributor

See FreeContributor [1]

[1] https://github.com/tbds/FreeContributor

Yes. And you should do the same and tell your social graph why.

Read "Get your loved ones off Facebook." [1] and the list of links from Stallman webiste [2]

[1] http://www.salimvirani.com/facebook/

[2] https://stallman.org/facebook.html | https://stallman.org/facebook2.html

See also FreeContributor [1] (works not just with dnsmasq, but unbound and pdnsd and hosts file)

[1] https://github.com/tbds/FreeContributor

See also FreeContributor [1]

[1] https://github.com/tbds/FreeContributor

Also https://github.com/tbds/FreeContributor (works not just with dnsmasq, but unbound and pdnsd and hosts file)

And don' t forget to watch this short video by Mozilla - "The Hidden Business of the Internet" [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LcUOEP7Brc

> That's a good idea - you can also configure a local bind/dnsmasq/unbound server to block based on these lists with ACL's (...)

Take a look on FreeContributor [1]

[1] https://tbds.github.io/FreeContributor/

Related Communication freedom [1]

[1] https://communicationfreedom.wordpress.com/jabberxmpp/

The only reason why Facebook has as much power as it does is because of user lock-in, but that use lock-in is only strong because no one fights it actively.

Therefore, I started evangelising from WhatsApp to Telegram

Telegram is also a close silo. Tell your friend to use programs that use an open protocol like XMPP [1].

Please read [1]

[1] https://communicationfreedom.wordpress.com/jabberxmpp/

See the video TED-Ed Buffalo buffalo buffalo: One-word sentences and how they work - Emma Bryce [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWbzjGIec20

Is it possible to apply this at the network level?

Yes. Please check pi-hole project [1] or flash your router with open-wrt/dd-wrt and run dnsmasq with the FreeContributor lists.

[1] https://pi-hole.net/

NXDOMAIN [1] ?

Dnsmasq can return nxdomain responses

echo 'server=/.example.tld/' >> /etc/dnsmasq.conf

Check dnsgate [2] or FreeContributor [3]

[1] https://www.dnsknowledge.com/whatis/nxdomain-non-existent-do...

[2] https://github.com/jakeogh/dnsgate

[3] https://github.com/tbds/FreeContributor

Like this [1], More details at [2]

[1] http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/16096/block-all-f...

[2] http://www.tcpiputils.com/browse/as/32934

I agree. From this project I discover FreeContributor [1], which use dnsmasq has a DNSBL.

[1] https://github.com/tbds/FreeContributor

See this one [1] from mozilla

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LcUOEP7Brc

Check the Mozilla campain "The Hidden Business of the Internet" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LcUOEP7Brc

Also consider pi-hole [1], notrack [2], uMatrix [3], dnsgate [4] and hostsblock [5]

[1] https://pi-hole.net/ [2] https://github.com/quidsup/notrack [3] https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix [4] https://github.com/jakeogh/dnsgate [5] https://gaenserich.github.io/hostsblock/

For GNU/Linux also check hostsblock [1]. It's available on aur.

A pi-hole clone notrack [2]

[1] https://gaenserich.github.io/hostsblock/ | [2] https://github.com/quidsup/notrack

In resume this [1]

[1] http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/05/think-your-skype-mes...