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As much as omegle was a cesspit, there are already even sketchier alternatives up and running. This will be a wild goose chase with no end in sight unless sites like this get rid of all privacy and log every single interaction and step up their moderation.

Like piracy sites and other illegal/grey areas, take one source down and two more will appear, or however the saying goes.

Almost like when you take religion out of the picture it’s one country committing genocide against another which is never okay for any reason. Israel can scream “but muh anti-semitism” all they want but it’s a scapegoat. Ignore Jewish/Muslim backgrounds and look at what’s really going on. It’s nothing but a disgusting land grab and genocide that’s been going on since WW2.

The world would 100% be a better place without Israel, and that’s nothing to do with their religion. The country itself is evil and corrupt. They are bigoted and hypocritical. Israel deserves no sympathy or support. Out of all the bullshit I’ve seen happen in the middle east the past few decades, Israel is definitely the most abhorrent and repulsive source of conflict.

I use revanced. None of youtube’s changes upsets me because I know within hours/days they’ll be patched out.

I know all the private alternatives are useful, but using the google ecosystem directly without dealing with their money grubbing schemes feels like nice way of saying “suck it”

Vivaldi is a better brave. You get built in ad blocking and tracking prevention along with not having built in crypto

Right now it’s one of the retro riffs that pixel phones can use but I’m thinking of changing it to the legend of dragoon menu music

First time hearing about this. Installed it on both my laptop and desktop. Helped 3 people so far :)

Archive.today works with more sites, such as NYT. This is a link to the article OP was trying to read.

I’d like to recommend this video by a retired Microsoft OS engineer about how LLMs like ChatGPT and Bard work. It has lots of technical mumbo jumbo, but Dave tries to explain it in simpler terms.

If you’re using the official F-Droid app, I recommend you check out Droid-ify. It’s more modern looking and faster, and along with the F-Droid repositories, it comes with the IzzyOnDroid repo preinstalled.

IMO if sites want to take a “free speech” approach without allowing bigots, maybe they should adopt the Canadian law. We don’t have free speech, we have what’s known as “freedom of expression”. Essentially, we can say whatever unless it’s hate speech or bigoted.

Yeah, Canada has censorship, but it’s essentially just to censor racist idiots and homophobic fools.

I had it enabled for a bit and everything worked fine, but I was worried about accidentally triggering it so disabled it before hearing about the false alarms.

Here’s an article from the CBC about it.

Meanwhile in Canada it’s being recommended to disable emergency SOS on both iPhones and Androids because of how many false 911 calls they end up placing, causing first responders to waste time on non-emergencies.

I pay for YouTube premium family as much as I hate doing it, mainly because of my step daughter. It’s not easy to block YouTube ads on Roku, and my wife and I weren’t a fan of the ads they would be showing before videos we would put on. She travels to her dad’s place often so I have the family plan so no matter where she is she won’t have to deal with ads.

Rather not be raising a child messed up by advertisements telling her what to think. When she gets a bit older and can understand what advertisements are I’ll finally cancel, but she’s very young and impressionable.

Should be using AdNauseam by default imo. Based on uBlock but also clicks on every ad to cost advertisers money for wasted clicks.

Centralized?

https://tatsumoto-ren.github.io/blog/list-of-matrix-servers.html

When I hear gimp outside of the context of the software, I think of gimp suits. In my area I’ve never heard gimp used as a slur for disabled people.

I get that there’s regional slang and what not, but if every word that offended anyone anywhere was banned, we would have to limit our words to the point of barely being able to communicate.

In my area, depending who you are, a silly term as “goof” is offensive. I almost got beat up for calling a guy one as a joke. Should I petition Disney to rename Goofy?

I see it more as us going back to the good old days. Websites and social platforms get hosted by interested people with the extra money to get a server going, whether it be for a unique website or an instance in the fediverse or other decentralized networks. Donation supported, nothing required. Maybe some donor icon.

Take the internet back. Quit supporting websites by big companies who have money and whose goal is to use you as the product. Support your fav nerds hosting the platforms you enjoy using. The internet had social websites before FB and twitter. We don’t need companies to run the internet for us.

If amazon was solely a marketplace they may have an argument but seeing as they’re arguing the content moderation and targeted advertising to kids, they seem to be forgetting they own twitch, a very large online platform that serves ads out the ass

You inspired me to ask bing to create “an elaborate and unhinged rant about the current state of reddit”

It started to say very similar things to what notion said, but much more aggressively. I can’t show you what it said because before it finished responding it deleted what it said and said we should talk about something else.

Caught something about toxic hivemind and power hungry admins though lol. Glad to see AI is on our side