How can you contribute to the Internet in year 2020 as a Global citizen.
Programming Languages
Javascript
- NPM is evil? Youtube
Search engine
Avoid from: Google, Bing, Yandex, Baidu (include Chinese site)
- Random search – Ctrl.blog
- Searx – Privacy-respecting metasearch engine
- whoogle-search – Self-hosted, ad-free, privacy-respecting Google metasearch engine
- Qwant – The only search engine that respects your privacy
- Swisscows.ch – Privacy safe WEB-search
Self-hosted search engine
- Host searx on YunnoHost https://github.com/YunoHost-Apps/searx_ynh
Analytics
- Google analytics – Solution: Matomo non-personally-identifying
- Maddy – https://github.com/foxcpp/maddy
Smart Device
Avoid from Amazon, XiaoMi*, Chinese Phone*
No more **
Google – https://nomoregoogle.com/
Amazon
Microsoft
Tor
Relay
- Run a relay
Open letter to whom blocked Tor IP
Niche and friendly site for human being.
Where possible make sure your website works without Javascript, or at least use lightweight bundles. Instead of using Google’s NoCaptcha (difficult for Tor Users), use security questions or a simple captcha instead. Whitelist Tor Exit IPs from your spam filter. Avoid using Cloudflare’s reverse proxy (DNS is fine for now), many web hosting providers (Hetzner, Scaleway, OVH, BuyVM, etc) already filter out DDoS Attacks for you. The speedboosts from Cloudflare’s CDN are minimal when you are conservative with media sizes and the amount of assets you serve. (You can even serve Bootstrap CSS and stuff from https://www.jsdelivr.com/ so it’s not a bandwidth issue!).
Credit: https://www.reddit.com/r/TOR/comments/b2y1lz/how_do_i_make_my_website_tor_friendly/
Hosting
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