<story><title>Go FOSS: Information is power</title><url>https://gofoss.net/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>O1111OOO</author><text>Lots of things I like about the site. For one, I value that privacy has been highlighted.&lt;p&gt;On a slight negative... they feature Firefox but it requires so much work to tweak. I feel this is a reflex recommendation though I do, very much, like that FF allows itself to be tweaked.&lt;p&gt;On the Desktop... I much prefer LibreWolf - which I didn&amp;#x27;t see listed. It is what Firefox should be.&lt;p&gt;On mobile, I prefer DuckDuckGo&amp;#x27;s Android browser (also not listed). Firefox mobile comes bundled with 3 tracking companies - each collecting a mountain of information! Why must you always shoot yourself in the foot, Mozilla? It&amp;#x27;s never ending.&lt;p&gt;DDG is not only open source (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;duckduckgo&amp;#x2F;Android&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;duckduckgo&amp;#x2F;Android&lt;/a&gt;) but it also does &amp;lt;strike&amp;gt;not have a single tracker&amp;lt;&amp;#x2F;strike&amp;gt; (thanks for this, byyll). If that wasn&amp;#x27;t enough, it comes with a module called App Tracking Protection. It&amp;#x27;s brilliant. It blocks trackers from other apps. I cannot recommend this enough. The sheer amount of information collected from apps on your phone...&lt;p&gt;I have had apps at 30 attempts in the first few seconds and reach 1,000 tracking attempts within 1&amp;#x2F;2 an hour. Every single item - from contacts to specific location - is constantly being polled, collected and transmitted by multiple companies.&lt;p&gt;Every app seems to be running spyware from various multiple companies - even my banking app. DDG&amp;#x27;s Android Browser helps stop this.&lt;p&gt;Wall of text, time to stop. Nice site, love that it&amp;#x27;s not afraid to be technical because, unfortunately, it&amp;#x27;s necessary at times.</text></comment>
<story><title>Go FOSS: Information is power</title><url>https://gofoss.net/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>candiddevmike</author><text>To me, this website makes FOSS seem like the only way to keep your data private.  FOSS software can still have trackers in it, and it can absolutely be backdoored.  Unless you&amp;#x27;re auditing the source code and building it yourself, you&amp;#x27;re trusting the developers as much as any other piece of software.</text></comment>