Update financial situation, Supporters meeting and more

Hello Newsletter Subscriber,

Today we have the latest news for you again:

Update on the financial situation

This time last year, we had some challenges covering the costs of our eBlocker project due to a drop in donations. Fortunately, by changing our donation model to "license key as gratitude for donation", we were able to reverse the trend. However, our growth is stagnating due to poor Raspberry Pi availability and the fact that we have no marketing budget. Therefore, we are currently operating slightly in the red - also due to rising costs.

Therefore we would like to invite our community to contribute once again: By collaboration, with donations or simply by spreading the word. Everything helps us to run eBlocker in the long run and if we all stand together, we will make it!

Supporters meeting in Kassel/Germany

Our supporters meeting at the beginning of July was just great. Especially thanks to your invitations for food and drinks we had a lot of fun and a very good exchange of ideas. Thank you so much for this! 👍

We were also particularly pleased with the hospitality of the Schlosshotel Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe, which offered all of us a free bratwurst with a drink. Our user Thorsten had arranged this with the hotel ahead of time. Beautiful, dear Thorsten, and thank you for the nice gesture dear hotel management - we will gladly come again!

On the cost side, we only spent about half of the donated 525€. So we have a small budget that we put aside for future team events. Awesome!

Firefox fights tracking parameters

At the end of June Mozilla introduced Firefox 102, a new browser version that is able to detect and remove tracking parameters after appropriate configuration. We are happy that this technology, which we already released with eBlockerOS 2.9 in April, has now also found its way into a browser.

Important to know: Because eBlockerOS works on the network level, with eBlocker you are also protected against app tracking, where a browser cannot provide protection. Nevertheless, it's great that Firefox has implemented this solution so that Firefox users now reveal a little less data. For those who want to be equally protected on all devices and apps, eBlockerOS is the better choice - without any additional configuration. 😉

Speaking of browsers: If you value your privacy (which we assume you do), you should not use Google Chrome and switch to Firefox or other privacy-friendly alternatives. By the way, this recommendation applies to all Google products - not just the browser.

Regardless of this, of course, we're still on the ball and committed to protecting your online privacy. 👍

Best regards

Boris, Christian & the whole eBlocker team

PS: IPv6 development is progressing and we are planning a first beta release in autumn. More about this in the next newsletter.

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