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Even with XWayland?
Even with XWayland?
Wait, how does Google make money off of paywalled contents?
Install cameras in their bedroom that streams to YouTube or Twitch 24/7. See if they really have nothing to hide.
Say it louder for the people at the back: adblock is a basic cybersecurity measurs
Even ignoring the surveillance aspect of ads, which I could go on a massive rant about, Google and other ad platforms themselves doesn’t seem to care about harming people with malvertising and scam ads. Why should I care about their revenue?
Same. I’d rather they not exist, but if they must, better that it isn’t under big tech’s grubby palms.
Technically true, but in practice, it’s very vulnerable to conglomeration of power by a few. Social media, for one: it’s not exactly a matter of quality to get users to use your platform. Beyond a certain threshold of minimum quality, people use and stay on a certain platform because the people they know are on it, such that it becomes a chicken and egg problem. Other than that, Google have such a ludicrous market share of web advertising (which unfortunately remains the primary method of monetising the web) that it’s very difficult to not use Google’s advertising, giving them immense power to surveil and monitor people. Google Chrome, which remains the most popular browser for reasons that elude me, has so much sway over the internet that it had the courage to even propose the idea of WEI. The infrastructure on which the entite internet runs are controlled by just a handful of massive ISPs, yet another centralisation of power.
Even more reason for me to never get a car!
Are adblockers even illegal? I didn’t think it was.
I know that some manufacturers ship QubesOS, those are intended for people with high threat models afaik.
I tend to think of it this way, personally: stealing is wrong, but it’s more acceptable to steal when you’re poor than when you’re rich. Both sides are committing attrocities, but one does so to opress while the other to liberate themselves from opression. I will acknowledge that my understanding of the conflict is very limited though, so this might be oversimplified or outright incorrect.
Time to poison their data, I guess.
Neat, thanks! Makes me even more grateful that I decided to switch.
Thanks! I’ll be copypasting all of these to my notes haha
Is GrapheneOS affected?
What a coincidence, I’m trying to learn SELinux too! Any tips?
Wayland have worked flawlessly for me, but I do understand that I have a very simple use case, so ymmv.
Really fasttracked my Linux learning experience too. If you’re starting out Linux and are predisposed to masochism like I am, using Gentoo as your first distro really catalysed my understanding of Linux (at the cost of a week’s worth of crying and self-loathing lmao).
Gentoo lets you do basically whatever you want. The whole idea of it is that you make all the decisions in your system, as opposed to how most distros impose their developers’ choices.
Does “pay for privacy” mean “pay to not be tracked on Facebook and Instagram” or “pay to not be tracked on the whole internet”? I can somewhat see a reasoning for the former, but the latter is absolutely inexcusable: Meta doesn’t own the internet, and it never should be allowed to.