I did not know that some words were censored.

I have been enlightened.

If what you were going to say was so offensive you had to censor it for yourself maybe think of something else to write. Or just actually say how you feel.

Airvpn actually looks really good even though I’ve never heard of them. Cheap, has all the features I need and they have existed for a long time.

It was OK today in this specific instance.

he he, no they won’t. But we won’t expect to see any kind of open source contributions from canonical anymore.

My bad for being the ublock shill here. But ublock doesn’t get infected by “please disable your adblocker” popups.

If you use ublock you can enable privacy filters and popup blockers. If you don’t use ublock you should! (it’s really good)

I’m pretty sure most sites just ignore this at least I don’t trust them not to. You should use u-block and enable the proper privacy filters (it can block cookie popups too)

betterfox shows a good list of privacy filters to setup.

People do edits to prole wiki

This is possibly one of the best examples I’ve seen so far.

elections in china (wikipedia)

I guess we will see when closed source variants start getting made.

Turning the script. the most “elitest”

Buying an expensive esspresso machine only to never calibrate it and use pre-ground supermarket coffee.

This happens every time! Humans are so unpredictable.

Not all heroes wear capes.

I don’t get it, couldn’t he have just walked away and not come back?

You should swap the colours around.

Ok, I had always thought western Marxists and Trot’s as synonyms.

I had also assumed that trotskyism wouldn’t be as much of a prevailing theory because they don’t have the same western media that constantly condemns everything AES states do. AES states are also much more friendly to the capitalist global south compared to the west. Maybe the constant coups the US does against revolutions in LATAM make it more difficult to understand socialism working for themselves without a revolution in the US.

windows forum instantly announces it’s sloppy, confusing rebuttal. Microsoft 365 on Linux: Why the Bottles Claim Needs Caution

On the first article: Firstly it has nothing to do with qBittorrent itself exploiting your device, its attackers exploiting qBittorrent.

A combination of unchanged default credentials

Yes if you don’t change the default password and configure your router to allow qBittorrent to open ports hackers can get in, this isn’t a security vulnerability it’s a user error.

Oh and I just read your bottom paragraph, yeah qBittorrent isn’t related to any large company. It’s generally trusted as a very good client by much of the community.

Second/third article: I am aware of these risks. None of this seems to contradict any of my claims or what I already know.

Hmm that’s weird. Then how did the German government know I downloaded 2 specific movies when I visited Germany and forgot to shut down my torrent client when I got onto the hotel wifi? I got a letter with the names of the movies, date and time and a hefty fine.

It looks like Germany really cracks down on piracy. Although I can see that with dns requests could provide a way for people to find what your torrenting (which by default the ISP has full view of [dns requets] [but you can use dns over https and a different dns provider to help that]). Just a tip in general qBittorrent has a feature to bind your torrent connection to the VPN so that you it can’t connect to the internet aside from through the VPN. I’m not sure about deluge but it probably has something, it’s a really important feature to enable.

Although it looks like they still need to access the torrent swarm in order to properly frame you. So using private trackers should provide better protection against those risks. I usually use a VPN although I have gone naked in private trackers on rare occasions and it hasn’t been an issue yet… although copyright trolls in pt’s are pretty rare afaik and trolls get reported, triangulated and banned pretty quickly (afaik).

I’ve been downloading for 30 years, of which most years were with torrents.

My apologies, I made an assumption.