Jesus, at this point over half the country will ban porn because of religious extremists who hate freedom. Fascism and anti free speech.

For more interesting and easily discoverable content. Really that's what people want at the end of the day.

There are no better adblockers, uBlock Origin is all you need and is already updated to bypass it.

Lol it was some Google employee's job for months to work on this anti AdBlock method and uBlock Origin bypasses it like same day

Private speech is never the problem and should absolutely be encouraged as a human right. The problem here is them avoiding regulators and should get fucked for that alone, that's the crime here. Signal and Whatsapp should not be mentioned at all and this is an attempt to push "encryption bad" narrative.

Who could have seen this coming except every single semi informed person.

I will never not read that as magic the gathering, it makes the news so much better

There's actually a lot to look forward to. In fact you're talking on one of those reasons right now.

e2ee is only a recent thing which is significantly more private. You can have an entirely private FOSS operating system that has parity with Windows for free.

The privacy and FOSS ecosystems are thriving more then ever. There are more VPN providers then ever before, and Tor gets better and better.

We have decentralized social media like the fedi which gives complete freedom against corporate control.

We have all sorts of amazing FOSS tools out there. We even have an AI that can be run completely locally and with custom unfiltered models that is very close to competitive with ChatGPT, and also free.

None of these things even existed like 10 years ago, or were in their infancy. They're all competitive to modern corporate alternatives. Privacy alternatives are by far in the best state they've ever been, and they'll just continue to improve as the community grows larger.

We can own all these tools and self host. In fact we've never been able to "own" anywhere near as much as we can today.

Woah crazyyyy, free speech absolutist capitalist seems to hate competition. I wonder why!

then don't buy it

people keep buying it, so why wouldn't they raise the price?

Should clarify this only affects Chromium browsers

That's realllly steep for a single app.

Wow Reddit can openly and unapologetically shit on their community and they continue to support the site. All of the "fuck spez" content is gone, and they're doing exactly what Reddit wanted in the first place, keeping it corporate and advertiser friendly. What a sad community that can't even defend themselves, this is why the state of things are getting so much worse.

Devs learning in real time why social media (especially decentralized) should be designed moderation first in design.

Reminder that Microsoft is trying to shift Windows to be entirely cloud based, so this can easily happen overnight without your consent. You don't own your OS. Linux is the only way, unless you're one of those strange BSD folks.

They got a one letter app on the app store. They get special privilege.

Nice, tried the link and they couldn't even set up https. Their target base won't even be able to type that link out lol.

Wow, we were allowed a few pixels for a few minutes, granted by our corporate overlords whom valiantly watch over every pixel to ensure they get the maximum IPO value! Just kidding, the bots decided to make it another flag or osu image or some stupid shit.

Especially when there's a lot of high profile clients who's business literally relies on them. They will absolutely have a ton of lawsuits coming towards them. Good, fuck them for thinking they could, or should, ever do this.