As long as companies can keep pumping shitty, almost entirely closed off android phones that cost less than 200 dollars for consumers (selling hardware at a loss while making up for data harvesting and sale), “linux mobile” will be just another meme along with “year of the linux desktop”

When you think about it, most of the work of catching criminals (or gathering evidence) involves invasion of privacy, I guess it becomes a question of how much we’re willing to part with

He’d probably have to have a dedicated video hosting site, not unlike GameTrailers and similars from the very early 2010s

Gambling between two people or very small groups is mostly ok and something humans have done since cave times.

Now, because real life has profit seeking corporations in control of gambling that know and abuse all psychological tricks available to maximize profits, I don’t think allowing them to exist is good for anyone except the owners. Casinos are also perfect for money laundering, so that’s another reason to not allow them to function, although with the internet they can just pick and choose a country to exist in.

It’s happening due to a big child sexualization/adultization scandal that took forever to blow up^[1]. When the deputies came up with a law that was ready and just sitting in a drawer, my mind immediately went “Oh, fuck”. I still gotta read it, because it was approved recently.

From my small understanding, usenet was like several forums loosely connected to one another, many servers are used mainly for filesharing. Every time I’ve checked some servers, all of them had a paywall to create an account.

Not all bans are bad or hurt law abiding citizens. Slavery and gambling come to mind, both still exist illegally (or, in the case of gambling, semi-legally, what with the deluge of sports betting and online casinos HQd in shitty countries), but I would say them being illegal is a net positive for society.

My vote is smoke screen, lots of nasty stuff can fly under the radar with all this talk on porn, vpn and privacy rights

So, can someone explain this to non USAians?

Best improvised weapon available. Nobody expects a hard tack to the head

Sounds like the bitchy ass dogg became the new anti-drug mascot:
“Drugs will make you so dumb you’ll get scared of children asking questions”

I mean, adoption? Wuzzat??? Izzit possibl???

It goes back before AMP, according to the article. It also briefly lists several other attempts to fuck the general web standardization in favor of whatever the fuck they want, including two I wasn’t aware: deprecating XSLT and SMIL

If I get paid, fuck yeah I’m on it!

Of course it’s a plant, it’s 100% vegetarian!

lol, kids these days and their stupid tastes, amirite?

Well, shit

The floor demands her chips!

It probably reduces the chance of male workers telling them to fuck off. Or the higher ups hire those so they can sexually harass them

In my uneducated view, the main problem is that ads are served by third parties, instead of the domain’s owner. There is zero curation because said third parties literally don’t fucking care, someone paid then it gets in the rotation.

If ads were like in 1998, where the person messing with the site offered space on a specific part of the site and selected which ads would run, being responsible for them individually, offering a fixed position that didn’t get in the way of the meat of the site, things wouldn’t be such a shitshow. In other words, cut the ad server middleman. Yeah, lots of extra work on the maintainer and the ad-interested parties, but that’d result in a lot less blocking.

Gee, maybe if sites weren’t 80% bullshit scripts and ads, MAAAAYBEEEEE, people wouldn’t need adblockers so fucking much?? Crazy thought, right?