Yeah, lemmy is insanely illogical on this topic. Services cost money to run, and the average user is not going to self host anytime in the foreseeable future. I have yet to hear anybody offer a vision of how things might reasonably work without ads OR subscriptions.

Oh right, how could I forget.

Rip Disney animators, you did your jobs well

Lola bunny, creating an entire generation of furries.

Haven’t spy satellites had super clear resolution for quite a few decades now?

To continue that analogy, they’re the pimp and you’re the slut. You’re the one getting shared around.

The Tor analysis is suspect in the first place. The whole thing is much ado over nothing.

The botnet in this case it’s called NTP

It’s already drowned out by low quality SEO spam, so no difference

Because there weren’t any great options at the time. Firefox has gotten better, but at that time Chrome was just super fast and lightweight in comparison to all the competitors.

They suspect, but it’s hardly clear cut

It’s not like we’re controlling spam today by keeping email addresses hidden.

FYI, that first screenshot is probably sufficient to make out your name, in case that’s your actual name

For those who would like to know more about what happened to Naomi Wu, aka SexyCyborg:

https://www.hackingbutlegal.com/p/naomi-wu-and-the-silence-that-speaks-volumes

Not quite missing, but she said she had received strike 2 of 3, and the 3rd one is really bad. So she’s going quiet to avoid any potential stuff from happening.

https://www.hackingbutlegal.com/p/naomi-wu-and-the-silence-that-speaks-volumes

Well they can not comply and probably get kicked out of the entire EU.