Nothing new here. I'd recommend checking out PrivacyGuides instead for a more comprehensive and informative list..
this post was submitted on 03 Mar 2025
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These suggestions are essentially the same as other privacy and libre focused recommendations.
Yeah, I think the title is just bait to get more clicks. Leveraging legitimate fear for what Trump's administration is doing to garner more clicks is pretty scummy.
It's also ironic that the premise they are playing on to write this article is anti-trump, but then they go on to list Protonmail even though the CEO has been kicking Trump's boots.
Edit - Oh, look at that... a referral link to Proton.
They also use GoDaddy for their domain registrar. No one who runs a website and uses GoDaddy should be trusted to provide any reliable advice on anything tech related.
Okay. What the fuck?
*Again - no affiliate links. You can count on that, for every post on this blog. I don't profit from you as a reader in any way beyond your direct support, if you so choose.
Then what the fuck is this?
Edit again - Apparently their site is a Ghost blog, which has a feature that adds that referral parameter automatically. It's called "outbound link tagging". At least it was not intentional, but it does show more evidence that this person should not be relied on for good information.
That's not an affiliate link that's an anonymous tracking link.
I noted that this was something added automatically by Ghost, the blogging platform the website is hosted on.
However, ultimately there is no good way to discern if a link like that is not an affiliate link or a non-anonymous tracking link, particularly for the average user. Particularly when the link does not include nofollow on the anchor tag.
Mostly yes, but there are some closed source services which are still good options for this specific threat model.
And I just thought the clear explanation of the why combined with the list, makes this an excellent blog to send to people who don't get it yet.
The list itself is something most of the people in this community know already, but you might want to send this when someone asks "why?"