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@BartG95 @Matomo

Yup 👍 Fathom is also listed on switching.social and it too has self-hosting or hosted options.

If your website gathers analytics on site visits, please consider whether you really need to. (Switching.social doesn't, for example.)

If you must gather analytics, please don't use Google Analytics. GA helps Google to spy on your visitors, and to spy on your site too.

A more privacy-friendly alternative is Matomo (aka Piwik):

https://matomo.org

It's free and open and can be self-hosted, or you can use their paid cloud service instead.

You can follow them here:

@Matomo

#DeleteGoogle

@zleap @heluecht

That's why we need to help develop free open translation services, they don't really exist right now.

@heluecht

It does seem to be a popular alternative.

However, it is important to also emphasise that the free-of-charge version of DeepL is not private. (The DeepL site explicitly says you have to pay for privacy.)

@heluecht

It does seem to be a popular alternative.

However, it is important to also emphasise one of the selling points of the paid version of DeepL is privacy. The free-of-charge version of DeepL is not private.

Apertium, a free open alternative to Google Translate, is currently under development (https://apertium.org).

However, there is some disagreement in the development about whether to use certain third party services which may affect privacy:

https://github.com/apertium/apertium-html-tools/issues/288

I'm not a developer, so I don't know what the technical trade-offs are here with viability vs privacy.

However, if you are a developer interested in the project, please do make your opinion known in the thread above.

@jlelse @Mayana

You can also find people to follow in the opt-in Fediverse directory Trunk:

https://communitywiki.org/trunk/

@socalledunitedstates @celesteh

This has come up several times before, nothing conclusive I'm afraid:

https://anticapitalist.party/@syndikalista/102547624663890168

@guenther @Fairphone

And no, the link doesn't work for me either, I just get a techcrunch error message.

@guenther @Fairphone

"Thanks! (Fairphone has broken the promise of updates before, so i'll believe it when i see it)"

I don't know what else you're referring to, but Fairphone has definitely not broken promises of providing degooglised Android.

They have it here for Fairphone 2, and they are still updating it too:

https://code.fairphone.com

@Bubu @Fairphone

Yes, they said there will be an update released after launch which will let people replace standard Android with degooglised Android (just like Fairphone 2 already has).

@aeroplain @Fairphone

It's only on sale in Europe but it is compatible with US 3G frequencies so it should work there. (They're not sure about US 4G compatibility yet.)

@guenther @Fairphone

Here's what a Techcrunch article quoted on the official forums says:

"Out of the box the phone comes with Android 9 preloaded. A post-launch update will make it easy for buyers to wipe Google services off their slate and install the Android Open Source Project instead."

"The updater will come post-launch, according to van Abel, who notes that around 5% of Fairphone users opt to go full open source."

@Stoori @Fairphone

Apparently it is planned and will come after launch.

@Shrigglepuss @Fairphone

Woo! 👏

@nipos @liaizon

Update on this point, Techcrunch article quoted on the Fairphone forums:

"Out of the box the phone comes with Android 9 preloaded. A post-launch update will make it easy for buyers to wipe Google services off their slate and install the Android Open Source Project instead."

"...buyers will be able to switch for a non-Google alternative — via an updater that will let them wipe and install the Android Open Source Project flavor of the OS."

👍

🎉 Ok, it's here! 🎉

The new fairtrade smartphone Fairphone 3 is now available to pre-order, with delivery in mid-September:

https://shop.fairphone.com/en/

You can follow Fairphone on here:

@Fairphone

It's made to be as ethical as possible:

💰 Fair wages all down the supply chain

♻️ Recycled material where possible

🕊️ Avoids conflict materials

🔧 Modular design for easy user repairs

It's €450 including tax and 2 year guarantee, available in Europe (incl UK).

#Fairphone #Fairphone3 #Smartphones

@csolisr

I think they're having to balance paying a fair wage with keeping the price at a reasonable level.

In this situation, the only thing they can ethically compromise on is specs.

If they'd higher specs, it would have put the phone out of a lot of people's price range. If they'd used cheaper materials, it wouldn't have been fair any more.