They feel they can afford incompetence because they know so many people dont have a choice anyway. Any microsoft locked institution for example. If that isnt at least a little evil I dont know what is.

it would feel less evil if win11 wasnt so full of awful and downgraded features.

can’t tell such things nowdays at all. that is why i use /j or /s to clarify if needed

but why? more users for linux means better linux support for everything

I thought they specifically planned to end the security updates to force people to use win11

well, the degree of that is also up to other people and how much effort they want to go through

There must still be some way to defend oneself against oppressive authorities in such way it doesn’t cause problems to yourself. Though on second thought it might not be good idea to post detailed ideas on public spaces where those hypothetical authorities can also read them. Its like we are living in beginning of boring cyberpunk dystopia.

What if we “comply” and give them their damn records if they come demanding them.

Gigabytes of data that is just red herrings and stuff that doesn’t lead anywhere but still has to be checked. And in formatted in such way it has to be done manually and can’t be automated without even bigger effort and cost. If you give it to ai it will just start spouting nonesense or preferrably accusing obviously wrong people. It is likely not possible to make something like that, but it would be great if it was.

https://fedi-search.com/

Oh, i thought it would do something more. At least I have had an assumption it would mess with some sensor or cause somekind of alarm

i wonder what would happen if someone was to point a laser at coincidently same direction as where the plane is

what about z-library?

what if they obfuscate the javascript?

yep, having that under control of one corporation is unacceptable. Imagine if some corporation owned pyramids or caves full of paintings by first humans to such extent they could grind it all to gravel if they wanted. Right now they are preventing fair use of the content too, by forbidding downloads of the videos.

Google has way too much control anyway, since google account has become too important for many people and getting it suspended would mean catastrophe to such individual.

the problem about replacing youtube is that there is over 10 years worth of videos and history in youtube. Not only do you need new content to appear somewhere else, the old content has to be available too or majority will not even consider alternatives. And if enough people wont even consider them there is no way the alternatives will gain content creators.

Google has us on iron grip with this one and it can most likely ONLY be broken through legislation. It isnt really realistic to even start downloading worthwhile stuff from youtube and putting it elsewhere, though it would be better than nothing.

they will add them if they get enough users

i think so too. And even if they wouldnt be doing this, we should still treat it as if they are and fix the problem of it being even possible to gather information about users using 0-click methods like this.

Not really, but I have observed some commonalities about what is usually needed for what. This is also why I want to have ublock as first line of defence -> if something is blocked on that by default then its definitely something you dont want to allow anyway so its a little safer to experiment with noscript.

Also, with noscript you need to constantly adjust it when going to new websites. Default settings breaking things is more of a feature than fault to me. Its about taking more control over things rather than trusting everything by default. But after you identify what is safe to allow, you dont need to adjust more things if site itself doesnt change something which you will notice rightaway due to things breaking again.

Its really hard to list any helpful tips about what to look out for since its mostly just intuition for me and halfremembered things about what I have seen before. Its probably more helpful for each user to develop these practices themselves anyway. But test things by temporarily allowing stuff and permanently allow only those things you are relatively sure about. Also start by allowing the scripts from the main site and work your way from there.

On some sites the list of scripsites can have insane amount of entries. I tend to try stay away from those sites as its also good indication there is nothing worthwhile there anyway. If you absolutely need to use those anyway and think you should be able to trust the site due to them likely not doing anything illegal anyway, there is temporary allow everything button which basically disables noscript for that site for the session.

Also sometimes when i allow scripts, they disappear from the list. I’m not sure what that is about, maybe it has something to do with me running ublock too or it has something to do with how the scripts are loaded in general. I havent had any problems with it so I havent investigated it. Also sometimes when i allow stuff, more sites appear so its more likely something to do with how some scripts call other scripts and maybe have redundancies if some dont seem to work.

i use both ublock and noscript, ublock is much more lenient about allowing javascript so its good first line of defence. I try to allow only those javascripts that are absolutely necessary to what i want to do. So many sites have tons of unnecessary ones that do who knows what.

hmm, good to know