So, current issue I’m trying to solve.

• Discord is kind if innately de-annonymized because I’ve talked about where I live for the purposes of visiting people.
• Discord cannot make voice calls through VPNs.

Should I try and find a workaround for that or just use discord from the desktop app and keep it segregated from my other traffic while accepting its compromised without even the minor protection of a VPN.

Or go full paranoid and make a brand new account and re-grab my old friends which creates an identifiable but not immediately obvious link to an old account (and then just self censor my own speech from then on out to avoid self doxing)

Honestly a pretty sunshine idea.

I am precisely in the middle of this chart.

Tor was always comrpomised, the point has never been to be uncrackable, the point is that tracking down an induvidual user is enough effort that it can’t just be done on mass like with normal internet traffic. If you draw direct attention to yourself then it isn’t going to save you.

Not to mention googles push for an identification standard that would effectively ban any non chromium browser from all major websites.

I see it as trying to combat the dystopia where not only is our data scraped but now every single thing we write, draw or film is fed into an AI that will ultimately be used to create huge amounts of wealth for very few, essentially monetizing our very existence online in a way thats entierly unavoidable and without consent.

In addition its entierly one way, google and others can grab as much of our data as they want while most of us would have an extremely hard time even getting granted a freedom of information request about ourselves, let alone grabbing a similar amount of data about those same corporations.

This is what I meant, if everyone is running googles web integrity API it also effectively allows google to ban other browsers from even existing by denying them access to all major sites.

Lets call it what it is, googles attempt to create a situation in which they can ban all competition and establish a global monopoly.

Elder GenZ, I use neither of these services and I suspect the same is true of many people, different subcultures gravitate to different forms of social media.