The unsealed court order wasn’t just fishing for a list of vague identifiers that could be winnowed down to a list of suspects and a follow-up warrant demanding actual identifying information on these ~30,000 YouTube users. No, it appears the feds led with the big ask, demanding names, addresses, phone numbers, and user activity for every viewer of these videos between January 1-8, 2023. AND(!!) it asked Google to provide IP addresses for all viewers who were not logged into (or did not possess) Google accounts.

That’s fucked

So they’re saying that since Suyu forked Yuzu, it also contains some cryptographic keys from the Switch, which is the docs violation? Didn’t something similar happen to the dolphin devs?

If this ever goes to court I doubt Reddit wants to open this can of worms, as well as every other social media company lol

“We respect your privacy to the extent the law requires us to. Maybe.”

Google is an ad company first, and as long as that gravy train is flowing they’ll be fine. Their dominance as a search engine is just to maintain their monopoly on internet ads, not give customers a good searching experience, hence why sponsored links are the first thing to appear and count as a view in their analytics

They will eventually, they just won’t be as brazen about it

Dilly dilly, Mullvad is great. I prefer it over ProtonVPN just for how lightweight and simple it is

…why would they?

I’d assume in the next public/developer preview, yeah

This is correct