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How is it privacy if it locks you into using an OS that reports on you?

I am saying this because I saw this happen. Whenever I accidentally peek into a random’s phone on a bus, chances are the homescreen has a VPN app. The blocked social media did have a bit of a decline, but remain very popular, especially Youtube, which was likely the biggest drive for people to bypass the blocks. The lack of credit is more about them often choosing shady VPN services.

I meant because of sanctions they don’t receive anything from Youtube itself. Yet they go on.

I wonder if Tiktok would respond by making their mobile webapp better in this case.

By the way, if the traffic is throttled and not outright blocked - that would mean things like GoodbyeDPI would be likely possible instead of VPNs!

We have a similar situation on Youtube - the site itself doesn’t pay the creators anymore. But everyone who had Youtube as a profession is still there. Some depend on a Patreon-like service, some on their own sponsorships.

Meanwhile the mainstream would probably just download whatever VPNs they can.

I know some people who don’t like their glasses, but dislike how contacts feel more. As for me - I don’t wear contacts that much because they’re a recurring expense.

The people in the echo chamber seem to actually enjoy yelling at people outside of it, though. So it’s not as enjoyable for them either.

I don’t pay for my media now because I’m poor by Western standards, but I did pay for some games unavailable on GOG - bought them on Steam, then downloaded a corresponding DRMless version. Wouldn’t want to buy physical media just to rip, because I don’t want it to occupy space, so I’d have to throw them out or resell. There are some exceptions, though - wouldn’t mind certain CDs as memorabilia.

An HDD/SSD is just as “offline” and easier to write though. No bulky extra equipment required, the capacity is bigger, and you can erase and rewrite over and over. While I underatand how people enjoy CDs as collectables, in a purely practical sense, I don’t see much value anymore.

But yeah, I do have some songs from Soulseek that are specifically from a CD release and don’t exist in the same form on Youtube)

Now that’s how you go against this social media! Not by bans, but by big organizations leaving it, as well as by advertisers cutting ties.

Banning the Three Letter Word is unenforceable too. If you ban Open*** and Wireguard - too bad, China has done that and people developed obfuscation methods. Even if you try to ban talking about them, they won’t go extinct. If there’s a supply, there’s a demand.

Because how would you do that on desktop? Or on a degoogled phone? Or if the download was via an apk from elsewhere?

A lot of the offerings say “Webrip”, so not sure about that - also, a lot of media simply isn’t released in physical form. Also, if I wanted to pay (hope I eventually earn enough for this), I would rather buy a DRMed copy to correspond to my DRMless one that I actually use. I do that already with Steam. Because a disk would either occupy space, have to be sold or thrown out, none of which are options I like.

And if my internet is out or if something is removed from a service, I can plug in an external drive that has orders of magnitude more capacity than a DVD, and not bother with having to swap them or them taking up too much space.

To be fair, I don’t like it when links are shared this way. Each person has a different preferred Invidious instance, and chances are they already have a redirecter set up if they need it. Not to mention that in 99% of cases, the public instance would be broken. Especially now, since there’s been news that they broke the last way Invidious managed to work, at least the public instances.

No, the situation here is more serious than that. I meant the big global social media platforms. Although true, porn in certain states is a good example.

I’ve seen big social media banned already. That does not make people leave the platform. That just ensures even grandma has the means to bypass restrictions.

I think this was a joke.