Plenty of pro-Palestine protesters have targeted allies (or at least uninvolved third parties) in real life, ie attacking pride parades, so unfortunately I don’t see why being on the internet would make things any different. Some people are just desperate to be heard and habitually pick the worst possible way to convince others to listen. Not ruling out intentional shit-disturbers but it’s never only that.

If YouTube offered premium without music for a discounted price I’d probably be willing to pay for it. But I just want no ads, not a bunch of bundled stuff.

You’re forgetting the part where the video is coming from a cache server that isn’t designed to do this

That’s not on Google Play so it doesn’t affect it. I honestly don’t know what the point of this is.

My university had student apartments, each had their own router. No weird rules since it wasn’t the university’s network at all, it belonged to whoever lived in the apartment. Full router access, connect whatever, put it in bridge mode and connect your own if you want.

OP those minimum requirements are taken directly from the Meta Quest 3 support page.

“Normie blocker” is just how abnormies rationalize bad design

It’s really strange how they specifically mention HTML5 canvas when you can run any fingerprinter test on the internet and see that Firefox does nothing to obfuscate that. You can run a test in Incognito mode, start a new session on a VPN, run another test, and on Firefox your fingerprint will be identical.

Advertisers track you with device fingerprinting and behaviour profiling now. Firefox doesn’t do much to obscure the more advanced methods of tracking.

Disable tpm in bios

Adblocking should be accessible to every layperson and not just people who know how to set up a pihole or use a VPN. It’s a basic security feature.

Was just a dopey idea in the first place. Nobody replaces a mouse because it’s lacking software features, they replace a mouse when the switches wear out.

I gotta say it’s refreshing to have a place to post where this kind of comment isn’t immediately deleted and the user IP banned like Reddit

I tried kagi for a month and the results were probably as good or slightly better than Google for 90% of searches but it completely falls apart any time you want something local or hyper-specific. It made me realize that the personalization that people hate with Google’s results actually saves a ton of time because I had to retry a lot of kagi searches with additional context.

Blocking ads and trackers in your browser and then using Google without an account will get you most of the way to what kagi is doing.

Big tech needs far stricter regulations but I don’t think people would like the internet very much if Google was forced to sell off services like YouTube. Nobody else is offering unlimited free hosting, discoverability, promotion, and bandwidth for video content and nobody ever will again. If the chromium project was sold off to some other shitty tech company, do you really think they’d keep the open source ‘ungoogled’ version readily available for everyone? A Google breakup would just mean that other tech companies like Apple, Microsoft, Oracle, etc get more powerful.

If there’s an appetite for breakups why not start with the companies that control our food and news

This should be what finally starts the push to ban mandatory arbitration clauses.

People grant kernel access all the time without thinking. Video game anti-cheat is a good example. It’s a pretty potent vector of attack since you can never trust these companies to keep themselves secure.

That number would be even higher if everyone used untraceable and non-reversible crypto transactions.