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Im assuming this is the Sophia Script you’re referring to? https://github.com/farag2/Sophia-Script-for-Windows

Oh I couldn’t see the bio on memmy. Thanks. Messaged.

The defcon link exists for people who don’t want to use YouTube. I like the message reaching more people so I like that YouTube is also used.

Anyone can copy there voices without permission currently. Seems more like a useful service as long as the terms and conditions don’t include anything about signing your rights away by using it

No, the others are people who support their OpenCollective. They put the links there basically to say “these people support me, you can too”

I really wish bots were forced to provide their github and/or who is running the bot. Its really annoying have a lot of content posted by bots woth no way to report errors. This bot posts soo much and always has that tiny “summary” of the posts. Can’t it at least use the auto tldr bot code to give decent summaries?

The coder of Hover Zoom+ publishes all the offers he gets to sell his users data. Here’s an offer that mentions their partnership with Dark Reader:

1/25/2021

We'd love to have redacted sponsor Hover Zoom+ in a similar manner to how we're partnering with Dark Reader. See attached for how that partnership has come to life, but we're honestly super flexible on implementation. We'd essentially love to pay you in exchange for helping us drive users to redacted.

https://github.com/extesy/hoverzoom/discussions/670

Based on this it seems like Dark Reader has sold out to some type of partnership of some kind. If they did agree to start selling users data without informing their users would they even publish this code on their github? They could easily publish code that didn’t include the code in the extension to track their users.

Im going to try emailing them and I think I’ll be looking for an alternative

Edit: I went to their website to find an email to contact them and wow. I know they want people to download their app but this is excessive I cant dismiss this giant button to download the app and when I accidentally clicked it, it became wayy bigger and doesn’t hide

Edit 2: they replied

I've never heard about Hover Zoom. At the moment we only partner with Honey and DuckDuckGo, you can see their banners and install their products. We don't collect any data. Best Regards, Redacted

Follow up email:

The dates reflect with Toucan, again, we had installation links to their app. Last year their product was shut down. Some time ago it was acquired by a bigger company.

I then asked mentioned your concern about the extension periodically phoning home and they replied:

The extension periodically checks if there are new blog posts on the website and displays the latest news in the News section https://darkreader.org/blog/ Best, Redacted

Seems alright imo

Edit 3: I’m actually confused by the email because it states their only partnered with Honey and Duckduckgo but they also have Adblockplus, icon8, Vpnwelt, and instinctools in their sponsored section?

Edit 4: I asked why there were more links in the sponsored section than Honey and Duckduckgo and they replied

It depends on your business structure. You need an agreement for advertising services, or some invoices, and pay taxes from your revenue. Open Collective acts as an intermediate, we don't have agreements with those sponsors or any invoices, just decided to put their links on our website to attract more sponsors.

Seems a little odd but overall understandable.

Unity does not respect their users at all

The summarizer for youtube videos is pretty sweet. Tutorials on youtube now work as text tutorials

I thought mullvad doesn’t work with torrenting anymore?

Wow that’s awesome hopefully they open source it and make it easy for anyone to use

How do you install security updates etc without restarting?

Linux servers prompt you do restart after certain updates do you just not restart?