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A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.
Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
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The communist style questioning???
Jojorwell 8194
They mean authoritarian but their language model has been poisonned by their invisible jailors.
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You conflate economic, which this game isn’t really about, with oppressive territorial statism.
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https://youtu.be/OBQE_TNI7zw
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
https://piped.video/OBQE_TNI7zw
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.
well i actually think it’s quite a reasonable measure.
other websites would’ve locked you out completely if your ip is suspected of being used in a ddos attack, while reddit does provide an option to continue using the website for registered users
Replace www. With safe. Or you can get an extension to do that automatically.
Their mascot even has a Fedora.
I’ve just started to save whatever pages I need to view on old.reddit to archive.org. It gets around the VPN blocks.
Use LibRedirect or Redirector to auto-redirect to RedLib public instances.
Noticed that. It used to be easy to bypass, because old.reddit.com allowed me to go there with a VPN, but they recently patched it. I found that changing the user agent to make it look like you’re on Chrome and Windows, alongside with US/Canada VPNs tend to get around this, but it isn’t very reliable.
Stealth used to work for a while, but not anymore either.
They are doing it to stop
scrappersscrapers and punishing people who use a VPN is just a bonus to them.Stealth still works for me
Interesting. I’ll try with a few different VPN points.
Me too, some people have been saying it no longer does for them though.
What does a scrapper mean?
It’s a tool that basically pretends to be a user, it opens the website just like you and
iother users do. It collects the data (images text videos) just by browsing around.They used to be prolific, but the problem is that they use a lot of resources on the website’s end. Instead big website owners started offering public APIs which allow bots to collect data without taxing the server too much
Thank you for explaining.
Sorry for the typo, I meant scraper. A web scraper is a tool to collect data from websites.
Oh OK. Thanks for the correction and description.
changing reddit.com to safereddit.com works
Safereddit is https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib
Never heard of it, thanks for the tip.
Hands up
This is not a stop-and-ID state, officer.
Time to update this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification#Reddit
Oh no, through this article I found out about Bandcamp’s enshittification. I like that Website to obtain music…
OK I read the bandcamp thing and… It’s not enshittification at all. Can we stop applying the term to every online service that kinda gets slightly worse for some reason or another?
Just in case:
None of those things happened with Bandcamp
As of today, the revenue share is still the same as before the last acquisitions, right? The entry requirements are the same and the discovery tools aren’t worse? If so, and the issue is with the layoffs and unionization, that’s true for countless other companies, especially in gaming.
Yeah, but I still post links to Bandcamp, even though they’ve gone down that path. One day they’ll cross the line, and I’ll start posting links to other services.
Bought by Epic Games and sold a year and a half later 😩
Oh shit. Are there any alternatives?
Faircamp is being worked on. No ActivityPub but the developer is considering it
https://simonrepp.com/faircamp/
That’s really cool, thanks for the link.
Arstotzka so great, passport not required.
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Oppenheimer reference? Lol
Yes, yes, and no.
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When I migrated to Lemmy, I left my Reddit account intact - just stopped using it. It included lots of tutorials, guides for things like buying a PlayStation Vita OLED panel, recorded Reddit Talks from the subreddits I moderated, the only source for certain bug fixes, and so on.
When Reddit started pretending this data belongs to them, and selling it to AI models, I replaced everything with gibberish and removed the comments. They restored a few, specially when they showed up on Google, so then I replaced them again, deleted everything, and deleted the account.
I had to redelete some of my comments 3 4 times before they went away for good. I should probably check again in case they came back.
Edit: Yep, a dozen old posts and comments are back again.
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Brazil did that. We have a new set of laws called LGPD that allows users to revoke the consent whenever they want - all data ever collected or provided to a service must be deleted. Not turned anonymous, not shared with Facebook, not “under the ToS it’s ours” - deleted.
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