• @[email protected]
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    132 days ago

    It brings back memories, as if I had read about it somewhere in some dystopian book. Big brother is wathing you.

  • @[email protected]
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    363 days ago

    No it doesnt. Governments want to so you can’t say whatever you want. So you dont get up with a bunch of other citizens and start asking questions or having thoughts of your own.

    • @[email protected]
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      52 days ago

      The nobleman seems to think: “Who do these peasants think they are? Are they trying to talk openly behind my back? What bastards! I will make it so that without an inspection you won’t be able to buy a piece of bread!!!”

        • @[email protected]
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          Well, we’ll have to brace ourselves for impact, because next time they can hit a holy place in a way that words can’t describe.

  • @[email protected]
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    162 days ago

    I’ve been wondering how long I’ll be able to avoid this.

    I pirate whatever I can and not really on main stream social.

    • @[email protected]
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      52 days ago

      Well, I think we have about a year or several years in reserve, then we will have to go offline to avoid penalties for insulting the authorities.

    • @[email protected]
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      92 days ago

      And specifically because if you shared those details, you ran a risk that they were going to fall into the hands of bad actors who would cause you harm.

      Which is the exact same risk that still exists today, with only the difference that more often all the time the bad actors are governments and corporations.

    • @[email protected]
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      112 days ago

      Yea, I can remember when the advice was to create a “handle” and never use your real details.

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      Clause - 549: we have every right to know who you are and if you have ever provided your ID on any website or browser, then we have every right to use your ID at our discretion and if you violate the rules or insulted the authorities we can send you a penalty by email.

    • @[email protected]
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      It’s not that simple, the Internet on any site can become a minefield due to AI. :3

  • @[email protected]OP
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    133 days ago

    I’ve noticed it’s become increasingly harder to even watch Youtube w/o signing in to give me a “better experience” when I’m using a VPN. LOL, I don’t WANT to fucking log in just to watch a video, guys, but of course Google knows that…

    For now, it seems to work by using Invidious while on Firefox + VPN. But this seems extremely fragile and prone to breakage.

    Thing is, now is not the time (not that it ever was) to let gigantic megacorps scoop up all your data so that if it becomes completely evil after a takeover from someone with a political agenda (imagine another fElon taking over Google’s data, for example) they can target you for whatever made-up bullshit reasons.

    • @[email protected]
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      32 days ago

      There’s the FreeTube and GrayJay desktop & mobile apps, as well as PipePipe, NewPipe, and LibreTube for mobile exclusively.

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        Ive had freetube and libretube break more often than naught lately. Having to switch vpn servers and invidious instances is a pain. Thanks google!

        • @[email protected]
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          12 days ago

          They should work fine without a VPN if that’s any consolation. Its what I do when they block more than 2 servers in a row because I can’t be bothered

    • Kairos
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      I’d recommend just using yt-dlp and your favorite video player.

      MPV will also automatically invoke it from the command line if you do mpv <youtube URL> but you’ll need to turn your cache settings way up if you want any seeking as data is only cached on the MPV side.