To be honest, I don't think Elon Musk will help us having a computer that you own (so not owned by big corporations), and I think so because he already recommended Signal (wants your phone number, and it's also not decentralized like XMPP, so it died after his recommendation) and Bitcoin (not anonymous by default, unlike Monero). The only thing that can save us is, well, ourselves, trying to kill capitalism. That way, having "a computer that is designed largely to maximize the profits of the computer industry" won't be possible. About the anonymity networks, yes, most of them just overlay the clear net, and so they're easy to block, like it happened to Tor in Venezuela (clear net only).

I agree, meshnets like ZeroNet, RetroShare, Tor, IPFS, should be more popular. Maybe localized networks should too because you could, like you have given as an example, share data from your personal weather station.

About mesh-nets that have no direct connections, Freenet is the solution (and our hope) for that because, if I remember correctly, doesn't connect to the clear net (unless you choose to download its updates through the clear net, for some reason).

Also, I don't really think it's possible (or it's just me) to live without technology. Sure, you can limit its usage (like by not having home assistants or IoTs), and yes, technology is filled with privacy violations, manipulating algorithms, narrative control, but it's clear that life would be hard without search engines, web browsers, and communicators.

So, I think that as a TL;DR to this: the solution to having a computer you own (as well as other problems) is to kill capitalism.

Will this ever end? Will I ever have a computer that I own?

Honestly? Probably not. Not unless we could get some major player like Musk to take a high interest in digital privacy and the wealth he has to produce secure hardware at a rate that it'd be cost effective for someone like your or me to own. And then, what? Most anonymity networks are simple overlays to the modern internet. Your ISP knows you're connected to Tor, but don't know what you're doing (Unless you used Brave for the long time they were leaking your requests to ISPs then you're fucked).

I'd like to see widescale deployments of meshnets, and more localized networks. Sure, I may not be able to communicate directly with someone on the other side of the world but I could check the weather from someone's local weather station, could share movies/files/music with others in the town/city, discuss local politics (which honestly, is more important than national politics. Change happens at the local level, and over time, upward).

Having many, many smaller, localized mesh-nets is one potential solution, assuming there was no direct connection to the clearnet and some fancy routing done to hide the origin of requests on that mesh-net.

I'm not sure what a good solution would be really. I could live without on-demand access to the reactionary comments on political articles from people who only read the headlines, I could live without the self-gratification of a new notification on social media (Of which I've long abandoned, with reddit being the last remaining one I keep active). I could even live without the ability to post comments like this to you, who I assume is geographically far away from me even. And I'd be happy to, if it meant total privacy, freedom from manipulative algorithms to showcase results catered to me, to escape from the fight to control the narrative and the way the populace thinks about certain subjects.

It's all mind numbing, depressing and an uphill battle.

Sure, why not!

I hear he didn't ask co-president Harris for permission, and the bitch is pissed.

Biden bombed non-military citizens, fighting for what they believe in, in a war torn country. The "multiple facilities" were probably their own houses.

So they finally figured out a "use case".

It wouldn't be a nigger at that point.

I was. It wasn't a direct ban, but the guy that I think is the admin over there told me there is legal content that would get you banned, so I didn't bother setting up shop over there and directly left.

poal banned you? Strange. Where you on voat before?

good.

I could easily find a dozen countries where life is better than crazy usa.

First it was posts disguised as ads, then removing an opt-out for tracking... good thing I'm not on Reddshit any more.

Also, for those that want to read the post/comments without loading bloat, you can use kddit (Tor v3 mirror, I2P mirror).

Death penalty :) That's one way to nip the drug problem.

Where is AOC to protest this anti humanitarian barbaric treatment of oppressed person?

But is it effective enough to wash the stain of Mayor (fake name) DeBlasio away?

Sadly, these good people were thanked by LAPD after the riots.

How did they thank them?

By raiding their businesses and taking their firearms.

That crazy broad. Wearing a 6 pack of face diapers.

Local ISPs in many cities are down to duopoly or monopoly. Either phone company and cable company or either or depending on the area.

Lots of people somehow existing on their 4G/5G phone only. Unsure how they are doing that with anemic plan limits on bandwidth.

I cut the phone cord 20 years ago. Did away with paid VOIP 5+ years ago.

When I cut local internet it was because bill rose and rose higher. No discounts would be extended by them. Meanwhile constantly calling about dropped signal to router and terrible throughput. All because they weren't expanding their infrastructure and existing on decades old roll out.

If Starlink was available where I am, I'd consider it and I am in a populated area where people like PCMAG writer would head scratch about. Even if paying a bit more, so far Starlink performs consistently and reliably. Unlike the crap offered locally.

I agree. Braves tor is not private.
Brave browser have many fingerprint more than Firefox and Tor browser. Other Chromium browser too. (We can check it on fingerprint test site.)

https://blog.torproject.org/browser-fingerprinting-introduction-and-challenges-ahead.
https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser/design/

On the other hand, there are a perplexing number of Starlink beta-testers signing up for the service in urban and suburban counties with potentially better options, like Chicago, Seattle, and Minneapolis. Other ISPs should be able to serve those areas without the expense of shooting satellites into the sky.

Local ISPs are vulnerable to local power outages and land prices, unlike all-satellite internet. And I've heard people for years quote phone data bills exceeding their $100/mo fee.

PC Mag authors are easily perplexed, since they got rid of all the knowledgeable contributors a few years ago.

This website is available from more than lokinet (also on Tor, I2P, Yggdrasil and the clearnet) but you do make a good point.

Reduce the amount of places you use the same username.

When Voat shutdown and people were flocking to new sites and saying, "Hey, I'm thisguy over here too!" I was facepalming. I was thinking that, for those people, that's the perfect time to start fresh with a new web ID on whatever platform they went to. For many: Nope.

Cydec Antifingerprint:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cydec-platform-anti-finge/becfjfjckdhngmmpkhakoknnkgpgfelk

i have a on again off again relation with Mint.

You won't see them, unless the "disguised as a post" type ads.

old.reddit.com for desktop use and "RIF is fun" (previous 'reddit is fun', but reddit cried over the use of their name) app for mobile. Only way to view that site nowadays.

I can't wait to go to prison for a fukken meme.

Next up:

With our users in mind, Soybook has disabled uploading untagged media files (known also as raw files) to prevent misinformation and harassment. Exceptions are allowed through our customer service reps, who are happy to take your call any time of the day!

I'm so fucking sick of this shit. At this rate any danknet will be illegal in 3 years and encryption will be only allowed through a proprietary HTTP extension that (serverside) will be licensed strictly to enterprises.

Morpheus wake me up plz, the dream world sucks even more

Likely, no.

This is why everyone needs to get a network level gateway/router/firewall solution and push blocking regardless of device connected to the LAN.

Policies and good intended laws at this point aren't going to save people from the vileness of the silly-con valley, data collectors, organized crime and hundreds of organizations collecting data to be used against you in the future. No you won't need to be a law breaker either. What they treat the convicted to always trickles down to the general public.

Remember when crypto export controls where about terrorism? Now we have normal people daily behind crypto on everything they do. Now the enemy is DARPA involved in the child trafficking and potential of. Companies like Palantir mirroring content on popular public sites like Craigslist - in cooperation with DARPA (funding).

Ads too started about just selling a product. Now the product is this long tail tracking and profiling. Give you something for 'free' to trick you onto their slave plantation. You are the product and being bought and sold and abused like a street walker. You just don't know it yet.