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I ran into a variant of this issue: I received an email at my primary address (recovery address for Google) that someone is attempting to log into my old Google account, and that the request was blocked. I try to reset password, hoping that the reset link is sent to my recovery address but Google doesn't allow that.

The only option is to "try and enter the last password I remember". Besides that there's no way to reset the password.

Why even bother informing me at my recovery address about the suspicious login then?

As long as a recovery address exists, it must be able to reset password?

Pixelfed is one I know of, but there are likely more: https://pixelfed.org/

If you consume reddit on a read-only basis, projects like libreddit and teddit are great alternatives to consider. I have completely switched to libreddit two months ago and I am happy with the decision:

https://github.com/spikecodes/libreddit

It has a multi-reddit subscription functionality too, so it's easy to take a quick glance just at the content I need.

Loads okay at my end. Maybe is resolved already?

I thought "is back to being a legacy website" is referring to old.reddit.com. Had me excited for a moment.

It seems to work fine at my end.

Dark Reader, 1Password, uBlock Origin, Stylus, SpeedUp, CSS Scan, Privacy Redirect, DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials. These are must-use for me, both in terms of personal life and work.

It's rare though.

I have been using alias services like Anonaddy and SimpleLogin for nearly two years. I have seen only on website block SimpleLogin, and it was a Pixelfed instance. I simply signed up on another Pixelfed instance as these are federated.

These alias companies also have multiple domains, so in a way these blocks can be worked around.

That has been the case for years!

I have been using Whoogle search for the last two months:

https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search

It is "A self-hosted, ad-free, privacy-respecting metasearch engine". Happy with the experience so far.

If I am reading this correctly, Apple owns tons of domains related to their niche and redirects them to apple.com? Every time I refresh the page, I see a new domain. Examples so far:

livephotos.london retina.camera apple.international iphoto.photography

Turns out to be a link preview: https://community.signalusers.org/t/europa-eu-domain-name-co...

It loads alright at my end. Wonder if the old reddit link is an issue, but even that redirects me to new reddit just fine.

Matrix is working on a P2P system. Last update that I am aware of is the one here, but there are likely newer updates:

https://matrix.org/blog/2020/06/02/introducing-p-2-p-matrix/

Personally, I would like to use Briar on my Tailscale network, but the lack of Briar desktop app and the need to build custom Briar app to support Tailscale interface is a blocker. Or, a self-hosted Signal app.

I do not see any issues. Version 1.31.90.

I have used NextDNS in the past (pihole now) but I wonder what Whoogle does different from DNS filters.

About the tracking part, you may like to check Whoogle Search - https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search It's Google results without the tracking, and it can be self-hosted.

I haven't used Google for many years, so I can't speak to whether it shows personalized results today. But, I recently switched to Whoogle Search (https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search) which shows Google results but without the tracking. I am happy with it, that I have completely ditched DuckDuckGo in favor of it.

Returns a 404 at the moment.

From this tweet: https://twitter.com/BlazejKrajnak/status/1445063232486531099

"Because of missing DNS records for http://Facebook.com, every device with FB app is now DDoSing recursive DNS resolvers. And it may cause overloading ..."

I was just about to ask. I keep seeing this issue "We're having some trouble serving your request. Sorry!"

A few refreshes later the page loads.

What leak are you referring to?

One thing that most folks aren't aware is that Cloudflare registrar requires usage of their nameservers. It's understandable, they are selling domains without a markup and need to make money in other ways. For those that want to use a custom nameserver, Porkbun is a great choice.

Loads okay at my end.

I want to try Briar on the Tailscale network, but couldn't figure out how to change the listening interface so far. Probably requires building Briar manually.

From these links, it seems to be a AWS issue:

Unofficial comment: https://community.signalusers.org/t/signal-down-for-anyone-e...

Official comment which came later: https://twitter.com/signalapp/status/1442354759009247232

They did now: https://twitter.com/signalapp/status/1442354759009247232

For search, I use TrackMeNot, a browser extension that makes random searches every few seconds:

https://trackmenot.io/

From the same tooter:

>If you use #Google Photos, there's a non-zero chance that there are secret, yet public URLs attached to your photos that allow un-authenticated access to every picture in your account. Mine did, and I tested the addresses in incognito and tor browsers and they worked. #privacy

https://mastodon.social/@gerowen/106978306449754832

Very much this. I am a happy Migadu user today. Works on any IMAP-compatible app. I have a domain for myself, and one for my parents. I want to move my extended family to a custom domain. It's even possible for them to create a new Google account with that custom domain for all Google things besides Gmail, yet I imagine a lot of push back to this idea.