Facebook and Instagram threaten to charge for access on iOS 14.5 unless you give them your data

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  • fb2cal

    Fetch Facebook Birthdays events and create an ICS file for use with calendar apps

  • There used to be the option to download all birthdays but facebook blocked that. I've used https://github.com/mobeigi/fb2cal to export all birthdays in ics format and imported them to a new google calendar. You'll need a laptop but it should be working for ios too, just clone the project and follow the instructions.

  • Frost-for-Facebook

    Discontinued An extensive and functional third party app for Facebook

  • For those on Android I highly recommend using Frost for Facebook and Barinsta for Instagram (if you really have to use either service). Free, open source, no ads or invasive permissions.

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  • barinsta

    Discontinued Open-source alternative Instagram client on Android. More maintainers needed!

  • For those on Android I highly recommend using Frost for Facebook and Barinsta for Instagram (if you really have to use either service). Free, open source, no ads or invasive permissions.

  • Frontpage

    Dynamic ToS;DR CMS, used in our frontpage

  • For instance there are sites that will condense T&S for you, you can learn reputable sites and services etc. For example google might suck up as much data as it can from you but, at least as far as we know, that data is split off into demographics and used to market/advertise back at us. I'm old enough to remember when simply getting free email was a big deal.. the services we get now for free are amazing. If that means they want to know I bought some cat toys and a RAID card off ebay yesterday then that's entirely fine by me.

  • vanced-website-v2

    Source Code of the Vanced Website

  • Here's a link to the official website

  • SmartTube

    SmartTube - an advanced player for set-top boxes and tvs running Android OS

  • For ad-free youtube on smart tv check out https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTubeNext

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