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Aral Balkan
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I mainly post on my blog at https://ar.al  (RSS: https://ar.al/index.xml ) and interact on my Mastodon https://mastodon.ar.al . Please follow me there.

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    Aral Balkan‏ @aral Jun 13

    Aral Balkan Retweeted

    Ah, and unlike @Mozilla @Firefox, who have the world’s #1 surveillance capitalist (Google) as their main search engine and depend on the billions they get from them to survive, you have @DuckDuckGo, a private-by-default search engine 👍 https://twitter.com/vivaldibrowser/status/1006836940036075520 …

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    3:03 AM - 13 Jun 2018
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    • Varsha Chowdhury Kamil Michalski @joachim@boitam.eu jesterhead Mattia Compagnucci RedFrog
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      2. Aral Balkan‏ @aral Jun 13

        Also, you’re owned by your employees. 👍 Would it be safe to assume you’re not looking for an exit? A guarantee in your articles that you wouldn’t sell to a surveillance capitalist like Google would go a long way to differentiate you even further.

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      3. Aral Balkan‏ @aral Jun 13

        My only qualm is that Chromium phones home: would be awesome if all Google network requests could be disabled by default.

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      2. Noel De Martín‏ @NoelDeMartin Jun 13
        Replying to @aral @mozilla and

        Seems like the tweet was removed, what was it about?

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      3. Aral Balkan‏ @aral Jun 13
        Replying to @NoelDeMartin @mozilla and

        It’s possible that @veryveryvarsha tweeted it twice (once from her own account and once from the official Vivaldi account and deleted the other as it was by mistake).pic.twitter.com/RR5qX52bji

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      4. Varsha Chowdhury‏ @veryveryvarsha Jun 13
        Replying to @aral @NoelDeMartin and

        True! As the tweet was addressed to me, I thought as much to reply from my account :)

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      5. Noel De Martín‏ @NoelDeMartin Jun 13
        Replying to @veryveryvarsha @aral and

        I see, I didn't have the context of the conversation so I thought it was a normal tweet. Thanks!

        0 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
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      2. HullRePublic‏ @HullRePublic Jun 13
        Replying to @aral @mozilla and

        Aral, would you recommend DuckDuckGo as a safer/more private option (for now)?

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      3. Aral Balkan‏ @aral Jun 13
        Replying to @HullRePublic @mozilla and

        Yes, definitely.

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      4. HullRePublic‏ @HullRePublic Jun 13
        Replying to @aral @mozilla and

        Thanks. And a VPN like Nord?

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