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riddler wrote

He didn't defend the peaceful protesters that appeared on his behalf and at his request on January 6. He is now also pushing a dangerous "vaccine" for a common cold which is already obsolete. Despite voting for him in 2016 and 2020, I can't see myself ever supporting him again.

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BlackWinnerYoshi wrote

TL;DR: Slave Search is not the first privacy focused search engine, the Slave Search Survey is bullshit.


Like searX. Yes, most instances are trash, but so is Slave Browser and their scams. And unlike this bullshit search engine, you can selfhost searX, which should work better.

Also, I would like to point out the survey that's available when you give your e-mail address (Tor v2 mirror) - if you want to see it for yourself, prepare your Riseup aliases.

There are some uninteresting questions - what's your primary browser, preferred search engine, device you search the most on - but then there's a question whenever you would pay for an ad-free and private search experience, although it should actually be "do you want to support capitalism to use a search engine that has hidden ads that will not be blocked by your ad blocker and that will steal your private info because we don't give a shit about GDPR?"... or something like that. By the way, who was stupid enough to choose yes? Search engines should be free.

Then there are other uninteresting questions - country you live in, language you perform searches, gender you identify with (I would like to point out these and those uninteresting questions were probably made to collect your data, but IDK) - and then there's a question about your age, along with a note that only people over 18 will be able to participate in the beta. Guess how many people have NOT chosen the option "below 18".

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Rambler OP wrote

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BlackWinnerYoshi wrote

Obviously, Goolag wrote about this only to try to keep their privacy concious users - they'll still track them. There are other ways to track users besides third-party cookies, after all.

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Rambler OP wrote (edited )

LOL. Imagine thinking you're the first privacy focused search engine when countless others already exist.

EDIT: It's even funnier. This appears to be a PAID service, with a free service available where you will see ads (Brave approved) and won't be able to earn your precious shitcoin BAT.

Or you can use the paid version for all the privacy features, no ads, can earn BAT by using it...

Or you can just use DuckDuckGo, any SearX or YaCy search engine, etc.

It's crazy how when you offer the slightest monetary incentive you can build a mass following who get excited over dumb stuff like this.

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Rambler wrote

I was really reminded why it's important to actually watch videos and research things yourself the other day when I was met with articles about how Rand Paul was being crudely mean and transphobic. Reddit would have had him hung in the town square based on the headlines and articles they were skimming, but not the video (if they had watched it).

Queue up the video of the meeting.

And it's just standard questioning that was responded to in a robot like fashion by Rachel Levine who refused to answer it. Here is the video, unedited, on Rand Paul's own YouTube page: https://tube.incog.host/watch?v=x3RJpBJQ25Y . It's on his own page because he did nothing wrong by asking questions and expecting an answer. It's a CONFIRMATION HEARING, not a luncheon and social gathering. If it was just a casual meet and greet, sure, his pressing would be inappropriate. But asking questions such as that during a CONFIRMATION HEARING is standard.

Watch videos of other confirmation hearings. People get asked tough questions all the time.

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riddler wrote

I think webm/vp9 is pretty spectacular when the compression is maxed out. Obviously, it has noticeable artifacts, but a lot of times I just need to give someone a rough video. However, webp is not anywhere near as impressive. After a few attempts, I realized the stated 25-34% improvement was massively over stated.

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Wingless wrote

It makes perfect sense. Health industry lobbyists run the government, and they are desperately afraid of two equal and opposite things:

a) The hospitals fill over capacity, and they have to turn away paying customers b) The hospitals aren't full, and they lack paying customers.

Having coronavirus knocking around at a level of 20% to 100% for a full year - I mean, it's like keeping the feedback on a microphone near a speaker making loud weird noises without dying out or blowing the speaker for an entire night. It takes planning. A hooker with that kind of talent would be worth a fortune.

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Rambler wrote

You can, technically... just requires thousands of dollars, paperwork and waiting months for the ATF to approve.

But they make binary triggers for AKs now, much cheaper and almost as fast.

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smartypants OP wrote (edited )

Google is detecting unusual activity

ah, thanks, interesting.

Google ignores10% to 15% of fresh commercial VPN exit IP points, but its annoying, because of the goddamn captcha crap you allude to. I assume they laboriously map out tor to further magnitude, because tor does not dice roll and segment and fracture, something I myself used to do to prevent any party from mapping all possible nodes, or all possible DRM locks tied to hash of originating IP.

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smartypants wrote (edited )

Thanks!

Nearly all of these download reuploaders may work still in 2021, and some work with age restricted videos too, but most are not for anonymous vpn or tor probably:

  • youtubepp.com
  • yewtu.be
  • invidious.snopyta.org
  • invidiou.site
  • invidious.fdn.fr
  • invidious.ggc-project.de
  • vid.mint.lgbt
  • nsfwyoutube.com
  • tube.incog.host

https://youtubepp.com/watch?v=kddQ_uhcbZg
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=kddQ_uhcbZg
https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=kddQ_uhcbZg
https://invidiou.site/watch?v=kddQ_uhcbZg
https://invidious.fdn.fr/watch?v=kddQ_uhcbZg
https://invidious.ggc-project.de/watch?v=kddQ_uhcbZg (DOWN for now in march 2021)
https://vid.mint.lgbt/watch?v=kddQ_uhcbZg
https://tube.incog.host/watch?v=kddQ_uhcbZg
https://nsfwyoutube.com/watch?v=kddQ_uhcbZg

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dontvisitmyintentions wrote

It's very complete, with great links to the unconstitutional laws restricting the right to bear arms, so I hate to complain. But including the age cutoffs with other restrictions makes it seem worse than it is, and harder to use the map at a glance.

If people realized just how close they are to liberty, and just how terrible the non-age restrictions really are, maybe more single-issue gun-rights politicians could make it.

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Wingless wrote

SPECTACULAR! Runs great over Tor, do NOT have to enable the script, CAN watch "Little Fighter" without a VPN, and CAN save .mp4.

This is computing the way it should be. Whoever built it is a hero. We will see them dragging the cross down the main street in a couple of weeks that they'll be nailed to, so LET NOT THEIR SACRIFICE BE IN VAIN GO THERE RIGHT NOW! You can whistle the music you watch now, the day we finally get tired of all this shit and let the world burn.

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Wingless wrote

I've been using this blog as a chance to test Tor in the real world, and these archive.is links are an example of what DOES NOT WORK. You'll get shafted to a "security check" for any of those, and of course, there is only one way to "check" and only one company that does it, the company that claims ultimate right to track EVERYTHING you do on the web, and even if you were to go through their moronic exercise in misdirection pretending you're proving you're a human as they try to fingerprint your computer, the outcome would probably only be the usual error message that "Google is detecting unusual activity from this address" and that will be all.

Archive.is is not a copyright holder. The whole basis of their claim to hold web sites is that they're "archiving" them. So can somebody inside this tiny remnant real internet have a way to archive-the-archive and make it so people can read the page without kowtowing to the Top Horn of the Beast?

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