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Dangerous organizations and services
_{Post #27 - Written by jobz in 2025/06/01}

This post shows all of the dangerous organizations that will limit your rights depending on government actions or how they feel like it. If they add measures like that, they're not aimed at businesses, they're also aiming at users.

The List

• Adobe - We know how adobe is like. You know the drill, don't support those animals. If you paid for their products, cancel everything immediately and if you cant because they decided to or that you need to pay, go to court with them.
• Figma - Denies access from countries that are sanctioned, you are not able to use the service in any way, including recovering your old projects, recently has been bought out by Adobe. AVOID
• GitLab - Will prevent anyone from accessing the website. None of your projects are recoverable if you use this service and one day your country gets sanctioned. Avoid supporting them.
• SourceForge - Prevents access to anyone in a reas that they seem "dangerous" as well as following trade laws, preventing people who are residing in countries who have been sanctioned by the government from downloading or using their service. Avoid supporting them.
• Microsoft - Will take any type of purchase done by you and prevent you from downloading Windows and other such, things like Azure DevOps and other areas are fully restricted depending on the country. Avoid supporting them and download stuff from archive.org, their services and how they operate as well as using AI hurts the environment. Avoid supporting them.
• CloudFlare - This company gives the owners to deny any type of access to people who are residing in countries that are sanctioned. While being a middle man, they will probably look into what you do and stuff. Try not supporting them, however, they are a huge company after all and 90% of services use it.
• AWS - Same story as the top.
• Discord - Your data on there is not safe, even if they do say some stuff are encrypted, your data will still be sold or sent to the Government. They also use CloudFlare which will block users in areas and take away the right to upload files.
• vKontakte, mail.ru, Avito, Odnoklasniki, Yandex, RuTube - Known for sending data to the Russian Government, FSB and other areas, your right of speech is severely limited, if you reside in Russia, FSB might start knocking on your door for saying shit that will be deemed as critisizing the military and be jailed for several years. They sell your data to advertisement agencies including your local address. AVOID.
• GitHub - This service will restrict you from using private projects and removes the ability to get your account to be 2FA'd, which is needed due to the need to use that option.
• Google Chrome & Vanilla Chromium - Owned by Google.
• Firefox - Owned by Mozilla.
• Google - While this is a weird addition, they will prevent you from using some services like monetization or creating your own APIs from things like YouTube or anything similar. They use AI technologies which scrape user data and hurt the enviroment.
• Opera - Chinese company, they have to abide to Chinese censorship and laws, meaning your data is sent to the CCP.
• ChatGPT - Their services dont work in sanctioned areas, meaning no right to use them. Their service hurts the enviroment.

Alternatives

• PenPot - Currently WIP service for designing, has CSS and SVG export. Great for users since they can self-host.
• Linux or old Windows - Linux(specifically Arch and other distributions) and old Windows versions give the user a far bigger range of rights and won't take anything that you do to the servers.
• Ungoogled Chromium - Chromium but de-Google-fied, best for privacy.
• LibreWolf - Mozilla but de-Mozilla-fied, however, if you are on Arch some files are hosted on GitLab, please notify the owners to move over to CodeBerg.
• Tor - Great open-source browser, protects your data.
• CodeBerg - Community hosted git service, doesn't sell your data and is mostly in favor of the user.
• Gitea - Service for self hosting GIT, however, I don't know how safe it is.
• Matrix - Great service giving you the freedom of speech, encrypts your data and makes sure you are safe. You can self host servers if you really want to.
• SimpleX - WIP service without discriminators, your data is completely yours.

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