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 * '''[https://bigbluebutton.org/ Big Blue Button]''' is a great video conference tool that is completely free of trackers. I like to use the German instance [https://www.senfcall.de/ Senfcall].
-* '''[https://meet.jit.si Jitsi Meet]''' is another option but ❗️ currently it's in the Cloudflare cloud! Better use '''[https://framatalk.org/ FramaTalk]''' instead.
+* '''[https://meet.jit.si Jitsi Meet]''' is another option but {{Warning small|currently it's in the Cloudflare cloud!}} Better use '''[https://framatalk.org/ FramaTalk]''' instead.
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-* '''[https://kodi.tv/ Kodi]''' is a great universal media player for desktop and [https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.xbmc.kodi/ mobile]. Play music, movies, TV shows, podcasts etc from your own Kodi database or stream them. ❗️ But beware of proprietary addons. Unfortunately Kodi doesn't display licenses of addons. Also note that the website is in Cloudflare’s walled garden
+* '''[https://kodi.tv/ Kodi]''' is a great universal media player for desktop and [https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.xbmc.kodi/ mobile]. Play music, movies, TV shows, podcasts etc from your own Kodi database or stream them. {{Warning small|But beware of proprietary addons.}} Unfortunately Kodi doesn't display licenses of addons. Also note that the website is in Cloudflare’s walled garden
 * '''[https://www.videolan.org/vlc/ VLC]''' is another great universal media player for desktop and [https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.videolan.vlc/ mobile], only not with such a fancy design.
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 * '''[https://en.wikibooks.org/ Wikibooks]''' and '''[https://en.wikisource.org/ Wikisource]''' are part of the Wikimedia Foundation and therefore very trustworthy sources for e-books and papers.
 * '''[https://archive.org/details/texts Internet Archive: Free Books]''' and '''[https://ebooks.qumran.org/ Izzy's eBook library]''' are great sources for freely licensed books too.
-* '''[https://librivox.org/ LibriVox]''' is another source for public domain audio books, but ❗️the site contains Google tracking. You can however access the entire catalogue and more from the '''[https://archive.org/details/audio_bookspoetry Internet Archive: Audio Books & Poetry]''' too.
+* '''[https://librivox.org/ LibriVox]''' is another source for public domain audio books, but {{Warning small|the site contains Google tracking.}} You can however access the entire catalogue and more from the '''[https://archive.org/details/audio_bookspoetry Internet Archive: Audio Books & Poetry]''' too.
 * '''[https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Audiobooks Wikimedia Commons]''' has a small category for audiobooks.
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-* '''[https://www.avocadostore.de/ Avocado Store]''' ('''Environmental Tip''') is once again an ethical choice I'm throwing in here. It is a shop for eco-fashion and home supplies where each product must fulfill at least one principle (like bio, long-lasting, recycled & recycleable, vegan,...) . ❗️Unfortunately the site is hosted on the Google cloud and contains Google tracking and all pictures are stored on the Amazon cloud.
+* '''[https://www.avocadostore.de/ Avocado Store]''' ('''Environmental Tip''') is once again an ethical choice I'm throwing in here. It is a shop for eco-fashion and home supplies where each product must fulfill at least one principle (like bio, long-lasting, recycled & recycleable, vegan,...) . {{Warning small|Unfortunately the site is hosted on the Google cloud, contains Google tracking and all pictures are stored on the Amazon cloud.}}
 * '''[https://www.willhaben.at/ Willhaben]''' ('''Austria Tip''') is an online trading and reselling marketplace that is great to get your hand on anything second hand and commission-free. It's only for Austria though.
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 * '''[https://savannah.nongnu.org/ Savannah]''' ('''Freedom and Privacy Tip''') is the right choice for 100% free software.
 * '''[https://codeberg.org/ Codeberg]''' is 100% Free Software and is managed by a non-profit association of FOSS and libre people & financed by its members.
-* '''[https://gitlab.com/ Gitlab]''' ('''Beginner Tip''') is a collaboration platform often recommended, e.g. by PRISM-break and it is the one F-Droid trusts with their data. ❗️Beware though, the flagship instance Gitlab.com is hosted on the Google cloud and is proxied by Cloudflare (thus effectively in an exclusive walled garden) and it [https://git.sdf.org/humanacollaborator/humanacollabora/src/branch/master/gitlab-dot-com.md fails] many criteria in FSF’s repository evaluation, so don't use that. The community edition is free software and can be used to power platforms hosted on other clouds. E.g.:
+* '''[https://gitlab.com/ Gitlab]''' ('''Beginner Tip''') is a collaboration platform often recommended, e.g. by PRISM-break and it is the one F-Droid trusts with their data. {{Warning small|Beware though, the flagship instance Gitlab.com is hosted on the Google cloud and is proxied by Cloudflare}} (thus effectively in an exclusive walled garden) and it [https://git.sdf.org/humanacollaborator/humanacollabora/src/branch/master/gitlab-dot-com.md fails] many criteria in FSF’s repository evaluation, so don't use that. The community edition is free software and can be used to power platforms hosted on other clouds. E.g.:
 ** '''[https://framagit.org/ FramaGit]''' is hosted by Framasoft.
 ** See the [https://git.sdf.org/humanacollaborator/humanacollabora/src/branch/master/forge_comparison.md catalog of instances]