A request to all the "Big Ballers" of this sub! (y'all know who you claim to be)

T.A.I.L.S needs our help!

Today we are starting a donation campaign to fund our work in 2017.

Unlike most other tools on the Internet, Tails comes for free as in freedom. We are not selling your data, sending you targeted advertising, nor will ever sell our project to a big company. We give out Tails for free simply because everybody deserves to be protected from surveillance and censorship. But also because being free software is a necessary requirement for our tools to be safe, and protect you as intended. If our source code was closed, there would be no way of actually verifying that our software is trustworthy.

Since 2014, we raised 210'000€ on average each year, coming from:

People like you Private companies like Mozilla or DuckDuckGo Foundations and NGOs like Hivos and Access Now Entities related to the US government like the Open Technology Fund (OTF) or the National Democratic Institute (NDI)

Related to US government: 34%, Foundations & NGOs: 34%, Individuals: 17%, Companies: 15%

We often hear complaints about the fact that many software projects that are meant to fight surveillance, like Tor and Tails, get a lot of funding from the US government whose own surveillance projects are severely criticized. We completely share this concern and we will worry about our accountability and sustainability as long as the survival of our project depends on a few small grants, some of them coming from organizations linked to governments.

Now, we would like you to think about it: where should our funding come from?

The answer is clear to us: the survival of Tails should be guaranteed by our users themselves, so that in return, we can continue to use our money in their best interest, with complete independence.

From anonymized statistics on our website we know that Tails is used by around 18 000 people every day. If each of them gave 12€, the price of a USB stick, our budget for the whole year would be raised within one day. As you can see, funding Tails through donations is a realistic and our budget ridiculously small compared to the multibillionaire companies and agencies running the surveillance business.

But many of our users could actually get in trouble if they donated to an anti-surveillance tool like Tails. So when donating to Tails you are also helping all of these people by keeping Tails alive. Please consider setting up a yearly or monthly donation.

If you want Tails to remain independent, please take one minute to make a donation.

-This is on their front page. AlpraKing bragging about his millions and Pelican giving $5 to all those people making rap songs about this place, and all the others who come here talkin that "booty chatter" (dnm loot) need to get over there and DONATE! Y'all know BTC price has been climbing and y'all been sittin on a beucoup coin. Tails is a big part of our "revolution". Anyone who is willing (Karma is real y'all) please help keep this amazing tool alive.-

(edit) https://tails.boum.org/donate/index.en.html (donation link)

Thanks you guys!! This amazing software helps more than just this community, it helps alot of people who have even less freedoms than the ones we fight for. Viva la Revolucion!!


Comments


[64 Points] 420NSWGreat:

Donated 5 BTC. Stay safe everyone. Armour the tank before you enter the flank.

Transaction ID: a4ca8f3bb305e9ee1460f4f0e2a9e089675d6972394f33885d2d218f50855d2e

Donation link: https://tails.boum.org/donate/index.en.html - PayPal - Bitcoin - Bank Transfer


[52 Points] AlpraKing:

crickets


[44 Points] Clix828:

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[16 Points] Elisa-Yamaha:

We donated a nice amount! :)


[15 Points] weedandsyrup:

I donated when I saw this, wish I could have gave more but shit is tight at the moment.


[11 Points] Lucyintehsky:

"need to get over there and DONATE!"

Could you provide a link for tails ? yea im to lazy to google it. Its a donation to the programmers directly ? because i will not have people from this sub or anywhere else related to tor markets handle that shit, they all steal.


[8 Points] earthmoonsun:

Link to donation page

https://tails.boum.org/donate/index.en.html#web


[7 Points] BasedEsco:

10 for my tails love


[5 Points] xanaxmanthevendor:

3.2 just for u, thank you tails :P Tran id: bf6e30bf311e85d541be27070b7c4f4cd6d05479efca99a03548d452ef12be8e


[4 Points] CupOdrugs:

Donated $70


[5 Points] AkabaMami:

$35 from me


[3 Points] ilovealcisneros:

Donated about 5$ a while ago and it felt great helping them. <3


[4 Points] CosmicConscesns:

Yeah I saw in the morning as well. Dropped a couple coins on the cause.


[4 Points] RIP_Meth_9000:

I'm upper, upper class high society!!!!

God's gift to ballroom notoriety!!!!

And I always fill my ballroom!!!!

The event is never small!!!!

All the social papers say!!!!

I've got the biggest balls of all!!!!

I've got big balls!!!!

I've got big balls!!!!

And they're such big balls!!!!

Dirty big balls!!!!

FYI....I gave my dirty Pelican $$$$ to EFF :-)


[3 Points] io-error:

boy the only thing tighter than my opsec is my financial situation...but have the coin i can spare. Thanks guys for everything you do.


[3 Points] stickykitty1:

I donated. Everyone should, not just the ballers. These sorts of tools aren't free and if we don't pay for them someone with a bs agenda will, and each and every vendor and buyer will be fucked.

Just give what you can, anything helps.


[3 Points] None:

if alprakimg gave them like 100k i would be a devotee for life.


[2 Points] None:

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[2 Points] magicthrowaway12312:

Donated, great post OP, let's keep this going

Here's the link again

https://tails.boum.org/donate/index.en.html


[1 Points] None:

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[1 Points] DareToHope:

Donated 100$ CAD, Why the fuck not. Stay safe

https://blockchain.info/tx/e3aee95224a83b45ee1a99bc0ae6ec486b1e9a3c4d97d80ca62014834a124a5c


[1 Points] None:

Donated 50 BTC for the cause.


[1 Points] None:

How do we know this is coming from the legit Tails folks ?


[1 Points] HT_DNM:

Saw this on tails.boum.org and donated few hundreds. This project should be alive!


[1 Points] None:

Sent what I could afford in BTC


[1 Points] jack19056:

Is there a way to donate doge coin?