Why FLoC and ad fixes fall short

Wondering what alternatives are available for Twitter or similar centralized and censored services? This episode, we're sitting down with Sean O'Brien to chat about the need for decentralized and censorship-resistant micro-blogging and short messaging platforms.

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• Talk Liberation newsletter -- https://talkliberation.substack.com/

Sean O'Brien's recommended tools to Opt Out:

• uBlock Origin, an ad and tracker blogging browser plugin -- https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock
• GNU/Linux, specifically Debian and Debian-based distributions -- https://www.debian.org/
• Ubuntu, an easy-to-use Linux distro based on Debian -- https://ubuntu.com/
• Tor and Tor browser, and easy to use anonymous web browser -- https://www.torproject.org/
• Tails, a portable operating system that protects against surveillance and censorship -- https://tails.boum.org/
• Signal, an easy-to-use end-to-end encrypted messenger -- https://signal.org/

This week's project to help you Opt Out - Threema:

• Threema's website -- https://threema.ch/en
• Comparing Threema with other popular messengers -- https://threema.ch/en/messenger-comparison
• Threema source code -- https://threema.ch/en/open-source

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