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deadaluson RT turns to Peter Thiel's Rumble after Big Tech companies block the network

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Decentralized : Odysee(LBRY), Peertube

deadaluson Degoogle: Alternatives to Google products, privacy tips, tricks, links

Also surprised not see 'Brave Search' listed as an alternative to Google Search. Its a fantastic search engine and it is only getting better.

deadaluson Russia demands Google restore access to its media YouTube channels in Ukraine

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deadaluson Distributed terrorism/warfare via Telegram channels

Telegram is based in UK and UAE. One of the founder is now a French citizen. Telegram has been blocked in Russia in the past : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blocking_Telegram_in_Russia

deadaluson Bitconnect founder indicted in global $2.4B cryptocurrency scheme

Monero because its untraceable(real world industry - underground drug markets)

IRS wants to crack it and awarded $1.25 million contract: https://cointelegraph.com/news/chainalysis-and-texas-firm-wi...

deadaluson GTA 6 Confirmed

GTA 5 is the best-selling entertainment product in history, eclipsing any medium. According to a new report by MarketWatch, GTA 5 sold over 90 million copies and generated over $6 billion in revenue since its initial release(as of April 2018).

https://www.trustedreviews.com/news/gta-5-now-profitable-ent...

deadaluson YouTube: Due to limited creator history we're limiting the number of views

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deadaluson Wire is now on F-Droid

F-Droid banned Gab for being a “free speech zone” that will “tolerate all opinions”.[0] Now Gab has been banned from Google Play Store, Apple App Store as well as from F-droid due to negative media pressure.

[0]https://f-droid.org/en/2019/07/16/statement.html

deadaluson In Argentina, inflation is a way of life

Venezuala ranks 177th out of 180 in the latest Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) : https://www.transparency.org/en/cpi/2021

deadaluson Naomi Wu video demonetized on YouTube

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deadaluson Search engines and SEO spam

You clearly label paywalled content with a symbol or image.

deadaluson Search engines and SEO spam

I also consider Paywalls to be spam. Clicking on a link and finding out that it is paywalled, is a massive waste of time.

deadaluson Google no longer producing high quality search results in significant categories

Yandex is the best when it comes to reverse image search, it almost matches Pimeyes.

Bing is the best when it comes to video search.

Brave is great when searching for controversial or censored topics.

deadaluson YouTube is testing people now?

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deadaluson T-Mobile says it blocked 21B scam calls this year

Spam Callers must be identified and banned (preferably) by a global task force that is funded both by the cellular service providers and the governments.

This is a global problem and no single country or company can be expected to fix it on their own.

deadaluson Ask HN: How are your interviewers being rude to you?

They(rude interviewers) think that you are taking something from them, that you are after something they have. They believe that we(people looking for a job) are parasites, so they want to avoid us.

deadaluson Open letter from the BMJ to Mark Zuckerberg

The problem is that BigTech funded 'news' organizations will bad-mouth and deplatform these new and different platforms as soon as they pose any threat. Their domains will be seized(Dreamhost removed Parler), infrastructure will be taken out(Cloudflare removed 8chan, Amazon banned Parler) or they will be removed from app stores(Gab was removed from both Playstore and Fdroid).

deadaluson Google Drive could soon start locking your files

They removed it after they began using GIFCT to ‘prevent terrorists and violent extremists from exploiting digital platforms.’ All hashed versions of that video was removed from user accounts.

Page 16 : https://www.oecd.org/officialdocuments/publicdisplaydocument...

deadaluson Google Drive could soon start locking your files

I will never forget that the Christchurch shooting video was automatically deleted from users' PRIVATE Google Drive and Dropbox - no warnings were given and no explanation was presented.

deadaluson [dead]

- Phase 3 trials for the original Pfizer vaccine not complete until May 2023: (https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04368728)

- Control group(s) were given vaccines after 14 days: (https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/02/19/9691430...)

- Pfizer generates 1.9bn in revenue off of 100m doses, just in the USA alone, creating a massive revenue loop for them that governments cannot get out of due to predatory contracts (https://www.fiercepharma.com/pharma/pfizer-eyes-higher-covid...)

- Pfizer's incredibly predatory, leaked, contract (https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/20616251-albanian-pf...)

deadaluson Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Twitter Account Gets Hacked

Yup. Why is taxpayer funded government organization using one particular social media site over others? Why are they not on Fediverse, Parler etc?

deadaluson Bitcoin Failed in El Salvador. The President Says the Answer Is More Bitcoin

David Gerard has an anti-crypto agenda and is a regular on r/buttcoin. He has publicly trashed crypto multiple times.

[0]https://old.reddit.com/r/Buttcoin/comments/nwblbp/podcast_pr...

[1]https://www.csmonitor.com/Business/2021/0611/In-El-Salvador-...

[2]http://blocktribune.com/david-gerard-can-get-long-way-just-b...

[3] https://old.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/6dkc8w/why_do_we_...

deadaluson Over 200 newspapers now involved in lawsuits vs. Google, Facebook

I HATE clicking on a Google link and discovering that it's paywalled. It's a massive waste of time.

deadaluson Ask HN: Why doesn't YouTube have a competitor?

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deadaluson Ask HN: Does anyone have a backup of Aaron Swartz' site: theinfo.org?

https://web.archive.org/web/20090714025054/http://theinfo.or...

deadaluson YouTube suspended my account for posting DeFi hackathon video

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deadaluson Goodbye Brave

Ungoogled Chromium = no auto-updates, extensions hassle, few users so you can be fingerprinted

deadaluson Sarco suicide capsule ‘passes legal review’ in Switzerland

Hoping this pill makes it to the Darknet Markets, I want to die but I don't want to experience pain. I just want a painless exit from this world from where I find no meaning or joy.

deadaluson YouTube deleting comments who criticize their hiding of the dislike count

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deadaluson Google removes Pirate Bay domains from search results citing Dutch court order

>The order targets ISPs and doesn't name Google but the company chose to voluntarily comply.