Fully agree. In fact, that’s what I’m suggesting in my original comment.

Web3 is essentially just indexing links. But since indexing links to pirated data is illegal, that’s why the blockchain is needed. Sure, tor is also viable, but riskier for the people hosting the websites.

You suggest IPFS, but isn’t that what web3 is?

Web3 is blockchain + IPFS and/or torrents or whatever p2p protocol.

I am not suggesting storing the data itself on the blockchain, but the index, the equivalent of simple HTML pages on the blockchain so we never lose track of the data we share with torrents or whatever peer to peer protocol.

However, if it became used in the majority for censorship resistant data sharing, and transactions were the minority, I doubt that this would stop authorities going after node operators and so on.

I doubt it would exceed transactions, but if it did, authorities would need a global agreement with every single nation to take down all nodes, and that is never happening.

The problem of curating data and deciding what is worth archiving, and what is a true-to-source archive vs fake copy. This probably requires either a centralised trusted party, or maybe a voting system

I agree with you on this, but a voting system doesn’t sound too difficult to implement. And alternatively the internet archive could be that centralized trusted party. Arresting them for reporting on what data is correct would surely be unconstitutional.

Piratebay itself was taken down. You need piratebay to distribute the magnet links.

No, but it landed the founders in jail. Are you suggesting we just accept jail as an outcome if we want to save the internet archive?

Except you can take down piratebay and send the founders to jail. You can’t take down Ethereum, or anything hosted on it.

You use IPFS for the website itself, and the blockchain to guarantee donations cannot get frozen or stolen like on patreon, and also to keep track of the files on IPFS. The latter is why you need the blockchain and no alternative work.

Think magnet links, but you can’t take down hosts who share the links like piratebay.

Yes, torrents exist, and people get fined or go to jail for seeding them, especially ebooks, movies and music, which is what the internet archive hosts.

Same would apply to yggdrasil.

But no one is going to jail for running an Ethereum node even if illegal file sharing occurs as a result of it because it is impossible to prevent it by design.

Lots of people hate blockchain technology, but you can neither take down nor ddos websites hosted on web3.0. You also cannot threaten with legal actions againts the many nodes that run the blockchain because you don’t know who those are.

My guess is they’ve been planning this for a while and had to combat the adblockers and third party scrapers first.

Hey, I don’t even have an account. My firefox bookmarks are my feed.

What an incredibly good opportunity to switch to polycentric comments.

If I didn’t bring my phone with me to begin with, which I often don’t, I would be in the same situation. I’m not saying the emergency service is useless to everyone. But the risk of it being off causing my death is so insignificantly small, the risk of someone tapping into my location far outweights it for me. We didn’t have phones when I grew up, and it should be OK not to rely on it for everything today as well. If that kills me (which it won’t), that is on me.

I could argue then that everyone should carry a first aid kit with them everywhere they go, or a rape whistle, then since it would save at least someone somewhere, but that’s a high burden to prevent something of low risk.

More importantly, why can’t it check the location when I actually make the emergency call, rather than every 10 minutes? It does not need my daily routine to locate me.

Now that I think about it, location is disabled globally on my phone by default anyway, and has always been. I turn it on when I have to, and immediately turn it back off when I don’t need it anymore.

I feel it would be kinda my own fault if I got in a car wreck on a freeway. What was I even doing there without a car or a licence?

And if I got lost in a forest, I obvisously wouldn’t need emergency services if my phone knew my exact location, would I?

Jokes aside, I could just toggle the permission on or off anyway, and I grew up without a cellphone to begin with. Yeah, there are risks, but to me this is phobia levels of precaution in exchange for giving out my exact location at all times to who knows. If that’s what kills me, that is entirely on me, but it very likely won’t.

I doubt anyone would want to kidnap me, but if they did, trackers would probably help them.

Probably useful for people living in constant fear of being kidnapped, but personally I think I’ll just revoke location on this one.

what they mean is emails can be extremely easily spoofed. It is pretty much like me changing my username to pacjo to gain access to your account.

Can you order a GDPR-compliant one from Europe instead, or an older brand?

It was a hard decision for me to not migrate my mojang account, but it felt better after the deadline officially passed.

Just pirate it and play or host pirated servers. (You already paid for it anyway)

Good job. Do Microsoft and Amazon next.

Oh, no I’m 100% for removing telemetry. It was more of a “better avoid roads altogether” kind of remark.

Does it even matter? Your car might disable telemetry, but every other car still reports your every action. You probably don’t even need a car, just walking or bicycling to work means every car manufacturer knows what color your panties are.

Phones shouldn’t be allowed to fingerprint users, and it should be illegal for companies to collect its data.