no benefit in embarrassing them. Should instead keep taking the money and use it for causes that resist them while trying to maintain secrecy so you can keep it going longer.

what if they obfuscate the javascript?

yep, having that under control of one corporation is unacceptable. Imagine if some corporation owned pyramids or caves full of paintings by first humans to such extent they could grind it all to gravel if they wanted. Right now they are preventing fair use of the content too, by forbidding downloads of the videos.

Google has way too much control anyway, since google account has become too important for many people and getting it suspended would mean catastrophe to such individual.

the problem about replacing youtube is that there is over 10 years worth of videos and history in youtube. Not only do you need new content to appear somewhere else, the old content has to be available too or majority will not even consider alternatives. And if enough people wont even consider them there is no way the alternatives will gain content creators.

Google has us on iron grip with this one and it can most likely ONLY be broken through legislation. It isnt really realistic to even start downloading worthwhile stuff from youtube and putting it elsewhere, though it would be better than nothing.

they will add them if they get enough users

I just wonder if the research into its effects is going forward as fast as it can since if there was some serious harmful effect from it it would cost a lot of money to many rich people. They would definitely want to silence anything about it as long as they can just like they did with climate change.

i wonder if microplastic could affect this. Even if its inert it must do something if enough accumulates in the brain.

the ones who own the social media are the source of so many problems.

i think so too. And even if they wouldnt be doing this, we should still treat it as if they are and fix the problem of it being even possible to gather information about users using 0-click methods like this.

Not really, but I have observed some commonalities about what is usually needed for what. This is also why I want to have ublock as first line of defence -> if something is blocked on that by default then its definitely something you dont want to allow anyway so its a little safer to experiment with noscript.

Also, with noscript you need to constantly adjust it when going to new websites. Default settings breaking things is more of a feature than fault to me. Its about taking more control over things rather than trusting everything by default. But after you identify what is safe to allow, you dont need to adjust more things if site itself doesnt change something which you will notice rightaway due to things breaking again.

Its really hard to list any helpful tips about what to look out for since its mostly just intuition for me and halfremembered things about what I have seen before. Its probably more helpful for each user to develop these practices themselves anyway. But test things by temporarily allowing stuff and permanently allow only those things you are relatively sure about. Also start by allowing the scripts from the main site and work your way from there.

On some sites the list of scripsites can have insane amount of entries. I tend to try stay away from those sites as its also good indication there is nothing worthwhile there anyway. If you absolutely need to use those anyway and think you should be able to trust the site due to them likely not doing anything illegal anyway, there is temporary allow everything button which basically disables noscript for that site for the session.

Also sometimes when i allow scripts, they disappear from the list. I’m not sure what that is about, maybe it has something to do with me running ublock too or it has something to do with how the scripts are loaded in general. I havent had any problems with it so I havent investigated it. Also sometimes when i allow stuff, more sites appear so its more likely something to do with how some scripts call other scripts and maybe have redundancies if some dont seem to work.

i use both ublock and noscript, ublock is much more lenient about allowing javascript so its good first line of defence. I try to allow only those javascripts that are absolutely necessary to what i want to do. So many sites have tons of unnecessary ones that do who knows what.

well, that ship sailed long ago since i have used windows. fortunately i’m switching to linux when my new computer is ready

what about the encrypted traffic different programs send/recieve on my computer? is it possible to decrypt that?

surely they would retain the encryption capability for themselves so this is not a problem for them.

thanks for mentioning disroot, that seems much more like what i was looking for than tuta which i was originally going to try out.

anyone who wants to seriously resist this should start preparing for it already or finding ways to support those who want to be more active about it if they cant afford to do anything themselves.

matter for earth, not sure about air. this kind of falls apart now :x

maybe fire in classical alchemy is more like energy than just fire. I wonder what other elements are if you extend that logic to them

Autocracies seem like flame. Some burn hotter and some colder but its not really sustainable because eventually they will run out of “fuel”. They also will cause harm to everyone around them if big enough and at least concern for neighbours or if they have access to things that can easily cause harm, even if they are small.

Capitalism is just exploitation of those with no capital. If we really cant have strong economy without that then might as well not have one.