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uMatrix offers me complete control over the requests that get allowed or blocked, so there's no need for anything else.

Can you repost the article somewhere else? I can't access it.

What can you really do with 1 megabyte? Clearly nothing serious. Why suggest it's free then? Neocities provides 1GB which is actually a relevant amount.

How about the Dissenter extension: https://twitter.com/getongab/status/1116357643172491266.

I'm sure China thinks of their censorship as education too. Whether Mozilla is big or small changes nothing. Censorship is censorship.

> Only those who've been tried and tested in court prove something, and only for that specific moment. It could be different now. We do not know.

How about you provide proof that your ISP doesn't store your stuff, as you claimed?

> Because I live in the EU, and it is illegal to do that without my consent.

That's not how it works.

> If that is legal they might, but so could a VPN provider. If you want to avoid this, Tor makes more sense.

ISP data is attached to your damn real name. There is nothing worse. A VPN would first have to rat you out to the ISP, which at least creates another step.

> That is not an issue everywhere in the world, and Tor would work for free and just as well.

It is becoming an issue in more and more places. And do you want to risk it? If Tor works for you, great. But it is blocked much more often than VPNs are.

> You know who benefits from your narrative? The companies selling the VPN snake oil.

Stop it. I didn't recommend ANY paid VPN at all. I myself use only free ones.

> Most? Source? What does this "focus" mean anyway?

Focus means they care about your privacy. Here's a good chart: https://thatoneprivacysite.net/simple-vpn-comparison-chart/. As you can see, the vast majority of the popular ones are in the green. Some even went to court to prove their "no logging" claim.

> All? Source? Cause mine doesn't.

How do you know? And they for sure store your IP and the sites you've connected to.

> Unless your VPN (or someone else who has access to the network) logs all data, and someone does correlation attacks. And if someone on your VPN does nefarious things (for which they need to "hide their IP") then you can be sure the likelihood of correlation attacks and logging has... well, increased.

On the other hand, the ISP just gets everything directly and easily.

> Why do you need to "hide your IP"? On "all your traffic"? I don't need to hide my IP at all. Even if I'd get (D)DoSed on my cable internet (why?!), I'd just use DHCP to get a new IP address.

Good for you if you don't need to hide your IP. Some people post stuff that might get them in trouble, you know? These days you can get jailed because you've shared a video (of, say, the recent mosque shooting). Or a comment on twitter criticizing a transgender (https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/02/10/uk-mother-arrest...)

> If you need to "hide your IP", depending on your adversary, it might be worth it to use Tor.

It's for sure better than direct connection...

Maybe because a "racism" thread will inevitably turn into a political shitstorm. There's thousands of other places to discuss politics.

> Well it relies on a fair and properly functioning democracy.

For that, there need to be consequences for politicians that screw up. There aren't. Actually, nowhere do we even have a real democracy. A regular person has no say in anything at all.

>Now, this also assumes that people become literally useless in the automated future, compared to systems. It's possible - if unlikely - that humans always move on to a higher frontier of uniquely human work once the previous one becomes automated. In that scenario, UBI could be a great way to ride that transition. Also, partial UBI, meant only to give people a platform for growth in a world that still has jobs for them, could be a good way to combat economic inequality.

What you're missing is that not everyone will be qualified to do those tougher new jobs. Especially the people who are now working at McDonalds, as cashiers, etc.

Pretty bad article - most VPNs have a very high privacy focus, while ISPs simply store all your stuff. Even a bad VPN is better than not using one. SSL is unreliable (Cloudflare MITM, rogue certificate authorities, etc) and doesn't hide your IP. Tor is slower and blocked by very, very many sites (and does not handle all traffic! Unlike a VPN).

Regardless of what you think of the "militia" - the fact that a donation service can just get rid of you is a really dangerous situation. I mean the reason could be anything at all, and you completely rely on someone's whim that you can't predict.

There is no "it's going to be". It's been happening for a long time. The article is way too long to describe this simple issue, IMO. Millions of bartenders, cashiers, etc. losing their jobs might not have another "simple" job to find anymore. The question then becomes what are we (or what are the elites, really) going to do with these people.

You should be able to see the effects, no? At least in cameras (the light won't be flashing).

Don't think this analogy really applies. I mean you have complete control of the knife - it's a physical tool you hold in your hand. Can't compare this with any electronic device at all, which always does lots of stuff behind your back.

I always hate reading about things like these because it reminds me of how shitty school is. But AI or other technology is not the solution. The child can just learn by itself naturally. I mean, we stick children for so many years in a cage so they can learn to write down stuff they don't care about and will never remember. How insane.

Claws Mail is pretty awesome. Lean, sane UI. But manages to have all the relevant features.

Just wanted to say that uMatrix can disable this. Browsers have been anti-user control for so long, we can't rely on them anymore to provide basic configuration even.

That should be the standard for every device, regardless if it spies on you or not. It's so weird how the above article even had to be written.