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I actually started with it this week. It is partially due to privacy but also because I lost a sense for value. It is really easy to press a button online and pay say 20 euro. Not that I am irresponsible with money but the numbers on your bank account feel so meaningless.
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I think this is the general conclusion in the topic that it depends on the situation. Maybe at the moment, emotion will also alter your decision at the moment. I suppose I would indeed never accept service to attack another country, only to defend my own country/land.
I have been reading a book about the history of Israel. One section was about people refusing to serve the army when Israel fought war in Libanon and Gaza because they didn't agree with cruelties the Israel army conducted/ accepted. It made me think about the other way around: What if your country is attacked and people are being called to service by the army, would an anarchist refuse out of principle? Quite some anarchist reject the idea of a centralized army so an anarchist might refuse out of principle. On the other hand, your country is being attacked. You can argue that accepting service is accepted because it is different from invading another country because you now have to defend your own country. What are your thoughts on this?
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I personally have no problem with paying for a service. However, if I buy premium to remove the ads, YT has no longer the need to collect my data. But it is Google and they won't stop collecting. That, plus the fact that Google basically has a monopoly with youtube are the reasons I don't buy premium.
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"Your info won't be used for ads". Does that also mean that they won't collect any info about you? Theoretically, they don't have any reason to collect data anymore because you pay them.
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Ah, on that note, a while ago, I also bookmarked: https://cwtch.im/ I think that is the same of what you mean. But thanks for bring collateral freedom and yggdrasil to my attention. Good food for thought.
I am a bit curious how such a decentralized network would function in terms of performance (especially in the case of many wireless nodes because you need quite some to cover large distances). You can ofcourse use them to get internet over the border of a country that blocked it but I find it hard to imagine how that would function on a larger schale
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You also have IPFS. Is that what you mean? It is slowly becoming better and better.
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I host a freedombox on a raspberryPi 4B. There I host wireguard, tt-rss and calibre. Freedombox makes selfhosting really easy
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Microsoft does the same trick with .xyz email domains. I had a .xyz custom email domain setup on Tutanota. I learned the hard way that Microsoft marks .xyz domains as spam without exception. For business users of outlook, this means these emails are quarantined and never reach the recipient. I ended up using a different domain for my main email. .xyz is a fun top level domain but microsoft makes it really hard to use. So I know the pain.
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They main problem I have with this is that we don't have a decent alternative for youtube yet. The main reason I don't want to pay for youtube is because it is Google. With YT premium you don't buy privacy (logically you would say with removing ads you also remove the need to track people).
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I personally self host tt-rss on my freedombox. I use the web and android client. If you don't want to self host, maybe you can use Feedly. I am not sure how privacy friendly that is if that is also a requirement.
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I use an rss reader to follow like 50 websites. The main news sites are arstechnica, the verge, IGN, Polygon and many snaller websites that post less than once a week
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And I suppose it is fine that not everybody interacts. They still do something with that knowledge only not publicly. Imagine if those 99% also start interacting. I suppose a community will become messy and people will stop interacting at the end because they don't feel heard because some people overshadow then with their voice.
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"The act of following another account is impersonal and one-sided. Building meaningful relationships with other people is second to amassing an audience."
This is an interesting statement. While building two-sided relations is indeed very important, it often also is the case that i follow people because they post for example interesting content i want to follow. That person just cant follow everybody back but still provide meaningfull information to lots of people.
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That is nice. I never used firefox long enough to find these detailed settings. it is a shame there user share declined so much. It is good to have another browser engine around
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Chrome is way overrated, just like edge (a little less) in my opinion. They focus heavily on speed and not on actually giving a unique browsing experience. They dont help you browse the internet efficiently and organized like browsers like Vivaldi do. The appearence of these browsers (and firefox to) stayed quite similar over time. There are better browsers, people just follow the masses and dont even try out new onces.
Part 2 of chat control is set to arrive as a draft in the EU