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Ultimately, the sentiment isn’t completely wrong. Using a different browser isn’t going to save you from being tracked. Using one or multiple browser extensions isn’t going to save you from being tracked. Using a VPN isn’t even going to save you from being tracked.

Accounts are pretty much required to use most sites, and many also require connecting a phone number or other personal details. Privacy is actively discouraged, and attempting to pursue it leaves you with many hardships – by design I would argue. You buy a product on one site, with no prior search history about it, and suddenly you start getting emails from unrelated sites about similar products. In capitalism, any information about your habits and interests also becomes a commodity. Why shouldn’t people dismiss privacy in favor of convenience, in such a system? It seems futile to even try.

And if your government is determined to figure out who you are online, then it will. Don’t make the mistake of thinking they don’t know what you’ve been up to, here or otherwise.

The people who are forced to the frontline certainly do.

The enemy is both weak and strong.

No point in contributing to a hostile organization.

Happened with Tears of the Kingdom too iirc.

Just crank your hog man

I was involved with an Indie game that was priced at roughly $15. It literally sold for 10 cents in those regions with Steam’s recommended pricing, mainly due to the accelerating inflation, and within hours of release, 20% of the sales came from these regions because of people abusing VPN. The pricing was quickly adjusted before that percentage could grow any larger.

When people can just get a freshly released game at a 99.5% discount, you might as well not sell the game at all in those regions.

Relatively speaking, games already were practically free in those countries to begin with, so it’s not like piracy would make a difference to the vendors.

A) necessary for stopping the butchering of palestinians,

B) had any chance of stopping the butchering of palestinians in general, as opposed to giving israel the perfect excuse to start carpet bombing with no restraint

This implies that you have proof that the killing of kids was intentional (IF it even happened, there’s still no concrete evidence for that yet either).

Do you have proof?

Because saying “killing kids is bad” will not convince me that Hamas is actually doing this.

No, so that they can cut off deez nuts:

It’s just gonna pollute the internet with even more bullshit. Language models don’t really understand topics, they just put together words that are likely to appear with each other. Biases are inherent to this design.

Well, at least in terms of information security a lot of progress was made, you just don’t tend to hear anything about that. I’d say the 2010s was the time where all that was being put into place, actually.

That exciting early 2000s Internet was unbelievably shitty. Nearly every widely-used protocol was easily exploitable or had massive flaws, hardly any encryption being in place, bad password practices and very little security-awareness among users, very widespread malware, etc.

There’s definitely a lot of answers that are looking for a question out there, with lots of corporate greed in play, but I don’t think it’s quite as grim as you make it out to be.

Haha, that would be too obvious, come on now.

"I just want to browse for god’s sake "

If you don’t want to be informed, fine. Nobody’s forcing you to use a different browser either.

Thanks, I fed em all to the hogs:

Sorry, I’ll turn the mind control machine off now

Yep, they are.

There’s two major factions in today’s right wing, one pro, and one anti NATO. In the USA, they are represented by the Bush-Cheney, and Trump conservatives respectively.

Not sure how it is nowadays, but back in 2018 Libreoffice Calc was struggling to handle even a single sheet of data entries, performance-wise, let alone multiple sheets.

I’m not expecting it to have every feature imaginable, but I do expect it to not freeze when processing even a relatively small dataset.

Fuck Ubuntu. Buggy as shit updates, forced snaps, always had problems whenever I was forced to use it, which I’ve never had again when I switched to Debian.

Debian >>>>>> Ubuntu