It is Cloudflare that creates this functionality and gives access to it to its customers though.

Cloudflare PR. Fuck them. Blocking VPNs from accessing websites is very open web of you.

There weren open test servers though and sites with limited trials but no data limit.

That’s what I used back in the day. Sadly all these trial offers are gone now and demand credit card information upfront.

It’s a shame Usenet has become fully paid. It’s what ultimately pushed me into torrents. And the fact that small communities don’t have all the content out there for you to download via Usenet.

2. Ist getting likelier by the decade.

Which country are Kagi servers hosted in?

Surely that means they’ll allow more apps onto their own app store with that, right? Right?

Neutral is very generous for a nazi and pedophile forum.

They’re not unblockable.

Every now and then Twitch wastes money on circumventing adblockers, but a few weeks later ublock filters will be updated to block that again. I’m currently watching without any ads or third party add-ons besides regular uBlock.

It is a paid VPN luckily though. The issue is with “free” VPN browser add-ons.

There’s also different adblocker rules and extensions for twitch ads.

For some games and websites I have to turn it off yeah. Or at least switch the server to one that isn’t blocked.

It’s a shame that websites are allowed to track and block VPNs.

Never use VPN add-ons for your browser. Unless you get them along with your paid VPN. You should run your entire network through the VPN, not just a browser.

Fun fact: they’ve also been founded with CIA money.

I’m not scared of AI ever becoming sentient and acting on it’s own. If it decides to end humanity then I don’t have a problem with going out that way. Saves me the trouble choosing how to do it myself.

What is scary is AI becoming more competent and being used by corporations and governments, not just to kill, but to surveil, oppress and torture more efficiently.

Hey at least Stasi only spied on people they suspected.

It’s crazy that this is legal.

Proton did not only hand over data to the Swiss courts, but the French courts via that. They didn’t just comply with national laws, but those of other countries.

That contradicts their virtue signalled interest in privacy, when they’re willing to surrender any data without even putting up a fight. They did not even try to argue in courts against handing over private data. And considering this lead to the arrest of the activist, it either obviously wasn’t encrypted or Proton had the means to decrypt it on their end.

You can’t just link Proton’s own PR speak as a source to counter that. Of course they would defend themselves.

It’s not about the law, but what’s right to me.

Proton according to this post is virtue signalling. Claiming one thing, then doing the other.

No so does France. Proton helped convict a French environmental activist by providing the courts full access to their private proton account.

I’m sorry to tell you but smoking is completely socially accepted.