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PDFReaders 2.0 – Your help is needed!

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Hi everyone,

we are currently preparing a major update to PDFReaders.org, adding:

  • a more appealing and cleaner “home”-page, with one recommendation for the auto-detected platform
  • Free pdf reader recommendations for mobile platforms
  • Free pdf browser plugin recommmendations

    • BUT, we need some help with gathering/verifying information, deciding what to recommend…

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    Improving E-Mail Privacy

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    I have recently decided to use PGP / GnuPG to sign and encrypt emails, and I also recently switched from KMail (after using it for ~10 years) to Thunderbird [the why of the latter is a longer story I might tell some other time].

    So, after not caring about email privacy for pretty long, I now got it all setup, although the setup on my laptop produces faulty inline PGP once in a while, where it doesn’t even recognize signed content itself…

    Anyway, what I want to discuss today is the email header. As you all know, it contains all sorts of information, even your IP-Address — if you have a nasty provider. I kind of had the intuition that Thunderbird and Enigmail would reduce this info, or at least not add to it, but apparently that is not true.
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    FSFE Affiliate Userscript v0.2 released.

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    I decided to rewrite the script.

    What’s new:

  • only one 5-line function from another script is used, the rest is original code under CC0 / Public Domain
  • Amazon code is cleaner, should produce less false-positive replacements (in theory 😉 )
  • Support for Libri.de / Bookzilla.de is added. Any and all links to Libri are replaced with links to Bookzilla. Actions on Libri.de itself are also “transferred”.

    • FSFE-Affiliate Userscript now available

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    I have uploaded a userscript that you can use to support FSFE when buying at Amazon. Automatic support for redirecting from libri.de to bookzilla.de is planned, aswell as any other affiliate programs FSFE might take part in.

    In contrast to the AffiliateFox-Plugin, the userscript is compatible with non-Mozilla browsers. But it works on those, too, in case you prefer to install something where you can see the source, before installing it 😉

    For more information see https://blogs.fsfe.org/h2/userscripts/