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  • The first point is flawed and even TOR doesn’t execute javascript because it’s impossible to catch everything when you give the server full code running capabilities.

    The second point is more plausible but there’s an incredible amount of work to do to fix this. Like, needing to rework browser engines from ground up and removing all of the legacy cruft. Brave is not capable of this and never will be no matter what they advertise because it doesn’t have it’s own engine.

    That being said, these tools will get you quite far against commercial fingerprint products especially ones used for Ads but that will also ruin your browser experience as now you’re just solving captchas everywhere 🫠







  • Nah man I run a couple of seo’d technical websites that are getting thousands of views every day mostly through SEO. Its a bit more simple today cause Google is just giving up as all you need domain authority, keywords, backlinks and good content to do well but without those you will never get front page, period.

    There are also incredible amount of SEO utilities that drive content creation like keyword difficulty and trend following so it is very much the same algorithm manipulation but through prediction and reverse engineering.

    I’d love for SEO to not be real and just make stuff but reality is SEO and even technical SEO (like semantic html) is required for any form of success in publishing content.




  • I use tiktok quite a bit and anecdotally tiktok definitely promoted Palestinian content. Especially as a lot of it was quite vile and tiktok censor is super sensitive for example Ukraine content never became as big even when it’s a much bigger geopolitical issue. Seeing more Gaza watermelons than Ukraine flags while living in Eastern Europe was such a proof for me thag tiktok is manipulating this.

    I feel like we shouldn’t accept or trust any closed source algorithm that can’t be audited. Period. It’s all manipulation because why wouldn’t it be? Who on earth could resist such power? Especially when there’s basically zero risks. Literally no one ever got in trouble for it. Ever.









  • Let me explain my point of view - it’s not about giving money to Google but showing the business that there’s a viable monetization strategy that isn’t locking down content or fighting ad blockers.

    Let’s say there is no Youtube premium and everyone has an adblocker then google has no choice but to fight ad blocking harder or lock down the content because Youtube starts to bleed money. Now some lazy people pay for Premium and we have this little golden mean where everyone can kinda use the platform kinda freely which is a pretty good compromise if you ask me.