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What is your definition of clickbait title? I consider clickbait misleading, misinforming or non-informing as clickbait, something like "He Built a Privacy Tool. You Won't Believe What Happened Next."

In this case here the title provides all the correct info about the video content - yes, he was arrested for building a privacy tool, he wasn't charged for money laundering despite what real clickbait headlines might be saying.

Why the massive downvotes here? I think bitcoin is bullshit as much as the next lemming, but the whole situation you may cheer now because it's a cryptobro getting fucked is what is going to happen to you tomorrow.

Summary: Guy basically made a Tor for crypto so transactions can't be directly linked between users, and the government charged him with a bunch of bullshit claims and completely ignored the law to destroy it. Yeah, there is some PR stunt going on now with a presidential pardon, but that doesn't mean the service is going back up.

In countries like mine, subjected to USA imperialism, USA puppets are already equating drug dealers to terrorists, and they also equate immigrants and refugees to drug dealers, so guess what?

If you visit the Tails website you are already put on a list of extremists, probably if you use Tor as well, it won't be hard for any of the privacy tools you like to make you be called a terrorist too, Graphene is for criminals, isn't it? We are just on whim away from a powerful asshole to decided that, because even if you believe you are "playing by the rules", laws don't matter. If it didn't matter even for rich cryptobros trying to secure privacy for their users, imagine for you and your wishes of privacy?

I wonder how long before someone says "Having to wait for security patches to be made only when new exploits are discovered is inefficient, we need an AI agent running all the time, inspecting every command, to respond immediately if an exploit is found." and then they just stop security patches and you need that AI crap consuming ram and energy like hell while sending all your data to the mothership.

I just rebooted to give an example... in less than 1 minute Edge WebView alone tried about 400 connections (everything red in the graph was blocked)

In the last few months I saw so many new services being added to Win11, connecting to so many new domains... WindowsSpyBlocker, that a lot of people use with the DNS, is awfully outdated, and unless stuff like Sophia Script, Win-Debloat-Tools, winutil, O&O Shutup were updated recently (like 1 or 2 months tops) it's also outdated.

Microsoft is also constantly changing how stuff works, intertwining stuff so you can't fully remove without breaking functionality. You used to get media expansion packs (stuff like av1, avif and webp support) through updates or you could download them from their site or use a Powershell command to install them, now you are forced to do it through the MS Store, and guess what happens if you uninstall the MS Store? (at least, a few months ago when I got a new Win11 install, removing MS Store removed the packages). Probably a lot of Edge removing tools are broken by now too, if you watch your network you gonna see Microsoft Edge WebView 2 calling tons of domains all the time, and if you remove it you kill your internet connection entirely (you can, however, block it on the firewall. It used to be just one service, but with some recent update it's four different services you have to block now).

What I'd recommend is manually uninstalling all the bloat you can, then running Get-AppxPackage on Powershell to find whatever crap is still lurking and removing it with Get-AppxPackage -Name "PackageName" | Remove-AppxPackage (don't remove what you are not sure what it is for, search or ask AI when in doubt, and some stuff you won't be able to remove anyway), then execute msconfig to disable other crap you may also find there (again, be careful with that) and lastly get a program like simplewall or Portmaster to block Windows communication at firewall level (Portmaster has a very friendly UI) - the problem is, each update Microsoft includes new services, and you should let stuff like Wuauserv, Do Svc, Crypt Svc and BITS open because they handle updates, but always check what the domains they are connecting to are for... still, even though they may not be for telemetry, they could totally be sending telemetry data through them, so there is no way to use Windows safely.

simplewall/Portmaster can completely cut the communication of Adobe, Nvidia and whatever other program you use, so you'd technically look like you are offline to them - if you need to use their online features, or they need online authentication to even run (evil as fuck), I don't think you will be able to escape data collection.

When China does it, it's called Cultural Revolution.

A good title gives you information about or summarizes the subject. A shitty title hides that information to force people to click to discover what it is, and 99.99% of the time it's some low-quality crap. I won't be clicking that video and will never know if it's good, because just from the title I lost all respect for its creator, whose name I don't even want to know. Clickbait is a cancerous culture pushed by content farms and predatory engagement algorithms. I refuse to submit to it.

they are collecting it to protect it, like a British Museum

Thanks. I have seen this and I thought it was all lemmy since it looks like devs wanted it that way for everyone https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/622

Is this not clear enough? Slurs are against our code of conduct and the goals of this project. Go to voat or gab if you want to use racist or sexist slurs; we don't allow them here.

If you dont like it, fork it. Stop bothering us about it, we will never fully remove the slur filter.

yep, this time I have read the thread to the end :P

Well, I believe brainwashing can only happen when there is no access to information. Adults make choices, and this is part of being held responsible.

Mention dynamic pricing then

That's very beautiful, but do you feel that way too when Trump says vaccines cause autism, Elon Musk goes on rants about the woke virus, and then that racist uncle who likes to drunk-drive and catcall mentions them as beacons of morality protecting society from transexuals?

Regardless of nature and nurture, at some point people must be responsible for the things they do and say, else we are going to have to excuse everyone for everything, as nature and nurture is no one's fault... and I don't believe that. One can understand all the context of why they are like that, and still want them to fuck off.