YouTube once did a genius and really nice move: Paying the video authors. They realized that treating the people who create the works – that are the entire reason why people use the platform – well and creating an incentive for that work is smart and a good way to grow the platform.

But that time is long gone. YouTube is the monopoly in the market now. They ruin everything that was good about YouTube. They brought the adpocolypse and only pay video authors for videos the content of which they deem friendly to their advertisements business and easy to sell to advertisers based on a completely arbitrary broken automatic system that enforces self censorship on the video authors. All other videos that are still vital to the platform do not get any of the money they make of the viewers the demonetized videos keep on the platform.
They started putting ads on videos that the author did not choose to monetize completely breaking with their system of sharing their revenue with the people who create the basis for that.
While they impose strict arbitrary self censorship on the video authors who want a cut of the revenue their videos allowed to generate they allow a flood of scams and other illegitimate and inappropriate content for advertisers.
They removed the dislike button making the platform much worse for the users just to appeal to advertisers even more.

TikTok is a cancer that always does this. It is a tool for censorship, propaganda and population control. You should never use TikTok. It is extremely unethical to do so.

You should get no information from TikTok. That is all there is to say about it. This is even much more true for medical information.

That is not the topic at discussion.

If you get your medical information from TikTok you really have far bigger problems.

GrapheneOS is the go torecommendations.

When renting you still have full usage rights. When renting a computer like an iPhone you still have the right to run whatever software you choose. That is not the case. This is not renting. This is nothing. You just give them money in hope of their favor. But you do not have the right to anything.

What is interesting is that they paint this as a security reason:

However, Microsoft has decided to remove this option from the Edge settings menu, citing security and privacy reasons. According to a Microsoft engineer, the reset sync option was “a potential attack vector for malicious actors to wipe out user data without their consent or knowledge”.

This is a very common reappearing thing in big tech. They deny you control over your data and device for alleged security reasons. Apple uses the same pretens for locking down iOS and not allowing the user to install apps of their choice but only what Apple approves.
They are right in a way. They are doing this for security reasons. But not for your security but for theirs, from you. You do not own “your” data and you do not own “your” device. We are heading towards a society where you do not own anything. No matter how much you pay for it.

That’s all nice but their lowest paid plan also just tripled in price (while getting more features).

The entire point of E2EE encryption is that you do not have to trust the server.

Tor Browser on Android. It happens on multiple circuits with different exits. Not an image by me, but it looks like this: https://global.discourse-cdn.com/cloudflare/original/3X/c/3/c38eaed81c96ac19e4fd5a69d4257445b391927e.png

Presumably end-to-end encrypted. Do not trust any of them. There is no good cloud-based password manager.

Bitwarden is open source and audited: https://bitwarden.com/help/is-bitwarden-audited/

child sexual abuse rings, come on

It’s a fucking toxic fanboy club. Don’t reply to me with that elitist nonsense.

If that is your opinion then please do not reply to me either.

When I visit the link with JavaScript disabled I get blocked by a site stating “Please wait while your request is being verified…” and then nothing happens even though the actual site behind that screen displays fine without JavaScript.

Cloudflared.

Archive version: https://web.archive.org/web/20230603110514/https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2022/01/should-you-use-lets-encrypt-for-internal-hostnames/

Hope this gains some traction. We really need to move away from Reddit.