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Rumble Takes Aim at Silicon Valley’s Throne with Northern Data Acquisition
Rumble’s Northern Data deal turns its free-speech mission into a full-stack tech play, fusing freedom-based ideology with infrastructure.
MembersVPNs Keep the Lights On in a Darkening Web
VPNs have become the last untrimmed edges of an internet now landscaped for control, the hidden paths through a garden that was once a wilderness.
Wisconsin Lawmakers Propose VPN Ban and ID Checks on Adult Sites
The bill treats privacy like a loophole, not a right, reshaping the internet into a government ID checkpoint.
Telegram Pushes Back as Australia’s Online Censorship Battle Heats Up
What Canberra framed as compliance, Telegram saw as a summons to a fight over digital borders.
F-Droid Accuses Google of Restricting Sideloading with New Verification Rules
F-Droid warns that Google’s new verification rules could turn Android’s open ecosystem into a gated one controlled by corporate approval.
Google Mislabels Immich, a Rising Self-Hosted Google Photos Alternative, as Dangerous
Google’s automated gatekeepers just reminded everyone how fragile digital independence can be when one company guards the web’s front door.
MembersDitching Google: Practical Self-Hosted Replacements
The exit ramp from Google starts with your own box.
GrapheneOS Plans Partnership with Major Android OEM to Expand Beyond Google Pixel Devices
A privacy-first Android is finally stepping outside Google’s hardware shadow.
Telegram CEO Pavel Durov Warns of Growing Digital Repression and Decline of Online Freedom
A birthday lament turns manifesto as Durov warns of a vanishing digital frontier.
Google Dismisses Privacy Fears Over App ID Policy
Google shrugs off anonymity concerns with a smirk and a shrug, offering little more than vague reassurances.
AltStore PAL Plans Expansion to Japan, Brazil, Australia by 2025, UK in 2026
AltStore’s next act is less about beating Apple and more about building its own internet.
BitChute Launches Revenue Share Program
A bid for independence in an online economy increasingly shaped by platform gatekeepers.