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Every website spends 5-10 seconds verifying my computer now to make sure it's not a bot, but somehow I'm pretty sure there's still plenty of bots on the internet
This will mean your phone (and in the future, I'm sure, personal computer) is constantly monitored for content the UK government doesn't like, and reported to the UK government if and when that occurs.
Your smartphone records everything it hears and sends it to the government or some data collection agency. You can put a bandwidth monitor on your devices and see that they constantly are sending and receiving data. But things like those Amazon Alexa or Ring Cameras were sending hours of audio and video captures every single day to servers that the users didn't have access to view. Smart televisions send your entire watch list to the data collection arm of their brand. And in car cameras like those in Tesla vehicles allowed employees to actively spy on users. Elon Musk was alleged to give Tesla cars to celebrities and then record all of their conversations in the car.
We're at the point where things like "smart" appliances are putting microphones and listening devices into every room in your house. We don't even need some ultra authoritarian state to mandate this stuff. Your nigger cattle neighbors are recording your face with their Ring Cameras every day.
This is all well and good and all but in much more important news, Signal (Archive), Mullvad (Archive) et al have taken a public stance against the nightmare world the UK is trying to build.
Signal's post (PDF) Ver archivo adjunto 9126504
tldr: UK is trying to force through on-device scanning under a protect the kids banner. This will mean your phone (and in the future, I'm sure, personal computer) is constantly monitored for content the UK government doesn't like, and reported to the UK government if and when that occurs.
(The US is trying to force a number of bills through ourselves that would follow in the UK's footsteps, so yes, suffah UK, but also it's looking bleak)
For what it's worth, laws are not required to make this a reality. There is no uBlock for applications on your smartphone, which is a shame because they are loaded with trackers and other invasive shit. All it takes is for a g-man to have a conversation with some of these popular companies about operation costs in their country. Gating functionality exclusively behind apps is a part of this system.
We're at the point where things like "smart" appliances are putting microphones and listening devices into every room in your house. We don't even need some ultra authoritarian state to mandate this stuff. Your nigger cattle neighbors are recording your face with their Ring Cameras every day.
I think it's important to keep up appearences, especially if you're a company that will be the main/only alternative to this bullshit. Get too cocky with responses and you make bad-faith argumentation that much easier.
More or less, yeah. At the end of the day it depends solely on how much the average person cares for their right to privacy. If the answer to that is "not at all", then there's not much anyone can do. At that point it's up to the anti-democratic checks and balances of the US system (i.e. the supreme court) to solve it.
The problem is, even if you do care about privacy, you often have no choice but to use certain privacy-invading apps for your job or for basic functionality, especially on mobile devices because of how much consolidation there has been in the tech sector on various platforms.
How long will it be before any cellular device or PC you buy off the shelf comes locked until you submit your biometric data to a third-party data broker company which then hands it over to various three-letter agencies as well as advertisers?
For what it's worth, laws are not required to make this a reality. There is no uBlock for applications on your smartphone, which is a shame because they are loaded with trackers and other invasive shit. All it takes is for a g-man to have a conversation with some of these popular companies about operation costs in their country. Gating functionality exclusively behind apps is a part of this system.
You can still chase some level of 'acceptable' by using separate VLANs for IoT shitware, but then things like Amazon Sidewalk exists to subvert your networking setups explicitly.
Not sure where this should go, but I'm going to comment it here:
Have you guys checked Reddit recently? Yes, I know, it's a low bar, but sometimes I check a few threads for something interesting (and come out disappointed). Still, my point is that before, on the left you had your login details for whenever you wanted to login (like hell I want to get into this cesspool). Now it's been replaced by a woke pic of a stereotype bearded cuck along with a black nigress, sitting together on a bank. It's fuck-ugly and forced as hell.
Not sure where this should go, but I'm going to comment it here:
Have you guys checked Reddit recently? Yes, I know, it's a low bar, but sometimes I check a few threads for something interesting (and come out disappointed). Still, my point is that before, on the left you had your login details for whenever you wanted to login (like hell I want to get into this cesspool). Now it's been replaced by a woke pic of a stereotype bearded cuck along with a black nigress, sitting together on a bank. It's fuck-ugly and forced as hell.
When I need to look at Reddit for something these days, usually in obscure hobby subreddits, I always use old.reddit.com. I cannot fathom why anyone would use new Reddit.
We've talked about this here before. But they keep adding new features that only work on new reddit. So if you use old reddit you get messages like "This content is not available on old.reddit click here to use the improved reddit" or whatever. And they continually remove features and abilities of the old.reddit version and have made all of the mod tools and third party management extensions incompatible with old.reddit as well to force their lifeless power addicted mods to suffer through the javascript heavy slop client.
Twitter is killing its desktop version rapidly as well. No more creating an account without the application anymore. Soon most sites will be like this. Especially with the new captcha systems rolling out that require using a phone to scan a QR code on your monitor.
On April Fools of 2004, creator of Newgrounds Tom Fulp made the entire front page McDonald's themed as a parody of IGN's full-page advertisement in September of 2003.
I would kill for the entire web to plastered with McDonalds ads if it meant none of the shit we have to deal with today.
I saw this about a year go while browsing the archives and I was so intrigued that I thought about posting it here on and off until now. I couldn't find IGN McDonald's on the internet archive (c. September 9, 2004) and Newgrounds' April Fools joke either. I'm sure it's floating around somewhere and that if I checked every single page on the Internet Archive dated 4/1/2004 I could find it. If anyone has a screenshot or a link to a list of all April Fools jokes with screenshots lmk
On April Fools of 2004, creator of Newgrounds Tom Fulp made the entire front page McDonald's themed as a parody of IGN's full-page advertisement in September of 2003. Ver archivo adjunto 9147348 Ver archivo adjunto 9147346
I would kill for the entire web to plastered with McDonalds ads if it meant none of the shit we have to deal with today.
I saw this about a year go while browsing the archives and I was so intrigued that I thought about posting it here on and off until now. I couldn't find IGN McDonald's on the internet archive (c. September 9, 2004) and Newgrounds' April Fools joke either. I'm sure it's floating around somewhere and that if I checked every single page on the Internet Archive dated 4/1/2004 I could find it. If anyone has a screenshot or a link to a list of all April Fools jokes with screenshots lmk
Grim that we're now nostalgic about full page sellout ads about goyslop. But I would agree and take these with no adblock over solving a cloudflare nigger google captcha with my phone, my SSN, a picture of my butthole and my first dog's saliva records from 88'
When I need to look at Reddit for something these days, usually in obscure hobby subreddits, I always use old.reddit.com. I cannot fathom why anyone would use new Reddit.
So here is some good news at least. Adnauseam updated its add-on so now I can once again play stuff on wcofun without issue.
I cannot entirely be mad at wcofun for how much they have increased their ads and pop-under elements because their huge archive is costing them a fortune to maintain in terms of server costs. However, I am grateful for Adnauseam for allowing me to block all of it.
I am still trying to come up with a solution for paywalls within video iframes, though. If somebody has an idea for how to get around stuff like this I would be much obliged.
I am so sick and tired of sites implementing some kind of "premium" bullshit these days. News sites that only show the first few sentences of an article, with some BS asking you to "upgrade to Premnium" to see more. GoComics switching to paywall BS, so you gotta "upgrade to Premium" to read comics older than a few months or more. And, of course, YouTube wanting you to "upgrade to Premium" to maybe not have ads on that main crapsite. Can you imagine the monthly expenses of someone who actually subscribes to all that?
I am so sick and tired of sites implementing some kind of "premium" bullshit these days. News sites that only show the first few sentences of an article, with some BS asking you to "upgrade to Premnium" to see more. GoComics switching to paywall BS, so you gotta "upgrade to Premium" to read comics older than a few months or more. And, of course, YouTube wanting you to "upgrade to Premium" to maybe not have ads on that main crapsite. Can you imagine the monthly expenses of someone who actually subscribes to all that?
Wcofun implemented this two years ago for all of their animated movies, even though you can still watch all of their shows and series for free. From what I understand it was because server costs are eating them alive.
Still, I am not going to subscribe to watch movies on a legally-gray free streaming site when I can usually go find them for free somewhere else. The advantage of wcofun is that their quality is pretty good and the videos themselves have no ads and there are a lot of things there I cannot find anywhere else such as shows that have become lost media like Infinity Train and so on.
