Reminds me of one chasing scene from the movie Johnny English.

GM. Have a great day.

It helps to see the bright side in any situation.

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Thanks for such detailed answer. Really appreciate it.

Thank you.

You're welcome.

Hard to say. But he's hell of a character I gotta say.

Anyone knows any Chromium-based Android browser that supports extensions?

I'm using Kiwi Browser as it supports extensions on Android. Unfortunately the developer of Kiwi browser decided to sunset the development of this browser. So I'm looking for an alternative.

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Yes. Go to the third tab of amethyst from your smartphone. Then tap on the new photo/video icon and choose whether you want to upload photo or video. After that, select the photo or video you want to upload and voila.

Thanks for the suggestions. I appreciate it.

I, in fact, used to do just that, what you you suggested. I didn't just switch back to full blown privacy invasive apps right from the cold turkey. The switching was gradual.

From using Tor browser for most of my browsing, I switched back to Firefox with no script and UMatrix add-ons and others that I don't remember now.

Then I switched to Firefox with UBlock Origin, privacy badger and HTTPS everywhere addons. After that I switched to just Firefox with only ublock origin.

After some time, I switched to brave browser. And nowadays I just mostly use Google Chrome for convenience's sake.

So yeah, I've tried different combinations, but at last convenience won. This is what I think the number one competitor of pro-privacy apps.

Privacy respecting apps are not always that convenient to use compared to the competitors. On the contrary, the tech giants make their apps the most convenient they could without respecting your privacy.

So privacy preserving apps should make make their services more convenient to use. This would help them gain more users than anything else.

As per your suggestions, I think I'll take it and switch back to using the privacy preserving apps most of the time and when that doesn't work, I'll just use what works. Thank you.

And one more thing, would you mind sharing which apps do you use or maybe recommend from privacy point of view?

Thanks for the explanation. Appreciate it.

Okay, now I get it. So apparently, I should upload photos on videos from the third tab of amethyst to make them show up in the gallery section of my profile. Thanks.

Out of curiosity though, any particular reason why regular uploads of photos and videos don't show up in gallery? Why does it treat them differently?

nostr:npub1syjmjy0dp62dhccq3g97fr87tngvpvzey08llyt6ul58m2zqpzps9wf6wl thanks for adding the tagging feature on #Jumble.

One request though. As you can see in the screenshot, when I typed @cody, different suggestions popped up, including the non-relevant ones e.g. the first profile, for example. The username doesn't start with cody or doesn't have cody in its name, but it showed up as a suggestion anyway. It might need further scrutiny.

Another request is, the profile I follow should come up first in the suggestion list, followed by the most followed or popular profiles. In this particular example, I typed cody to tag you, and I follow you, but it showed a bunch of profiles that I don't follow first and after a couple of profiles showed yours.

I'm not asking about the text notes. Those I get from Notes and Reply tabs/sections. But shouldn't the Gallery section/tab show the videos and photos I posted?

As you can see in the attached screenshot, the Gallery is empty. Do I need to do anything while posting?

nostr:nprofile1qqsyvrp9u6p0mfur9dfdru3d853tx9mdjuhkphxuxgfwmryja7zsvhqpzamhxue69uhhv6t5daezumn0wd68yvfwvdhk6tcpz9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejj7qgwwaehxw309ahx7uewd3hkctcscpyug photos and videos I've posted on #Nostr don't show up in my Gallery section/tab of the profile on nostr:nprofile1qqs24yz8xftq8kkdf7q5yzf4v7tn2ek78v0zp2y427mj3sa7f34ggjcpzamhxue69uhhv6t5daezumn0wd68yvfwvdhk6tcppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qyg8wumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnddakj703s8dt. Am I missing something?

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Take responsibility for the consequences of your actions.

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For GTK based desktop, you might want to explore the MATE desktop, which supports Wayland in its latest release. Xfce has initial Wayland support in its latest release too. For Qt based desktop, you might want to try LXQt.

Emotions cloud our judgments.

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I'm talking about 2016 and few years after that. At that time, the alternatives weren't that good. I spent countless hours reading about privacy stuffs: privacy risks of using the big tech products, proprietary and non-encrypted software.

Google at that time seemed the most anti-privacy company which knew more than anybody else about you. So I started using the alternatives: from Google search to DuckDuckGo, or sometimes StartPage, Gmail to Tutanota, or Inventati, switching to some Next Cloud based open source and encrypted cloud storage provider, etc. And the best of that was switching to a dumb phone, ditching the smartphone altogether. I even deleted my FB account later on and ditched Windows in favor of Linux. I played with tens of Linux distro at that time. But using Linux didn't stem from privacy standpoint, but rather for my curiosity of tinkering.

Now, I could do all these because I could afford to do that. The alternatives at that time weren't that good. I'm talking about the year 2016 and afterwards. But I was so pro-privacy that that way worked for me. I even tried my best to not use the proprietary and privacy-invasive products at my workplace.

But this could only go on for so long. I had to switch back at some point. It started with Gmail and then Android. If you're using Android, you're by default using lots of Google services, knowingly and unknowingly supplying data to Google. It already knew so much that I started to stop caring much about privacy.

I switched back to Gmail and others. In academia, especially when you're approaching the professors, Gmail is unfortunately the best choice because their email filters easily can send your email to the junk/spam box.

So the answer to your question in short is, using privacy respecting apps didn't seem to add much value especially while using Android, Google search and Gmail. The alternatives weren't great at that time and then I just stopped caring because the big tech already knew much about me.

I know something can be better than nothing. That's why I still prefer privacy. But I just can't go full commando like I did earlier. Maybe in the future I'll go again. Who knows?

It's not others fault how you feel.

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