WallyFunk
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Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago
I ran a little experiment once with Reddit and registered with the Tor Browser. My first post was shadowbanned. After contacting the mods of the subreddit, they unbanned my post and it was visible to everyone. So I concluded Reddit is hostile towards Tor IPs. You have to go out of your way and contact mods to get posts visible, which people aren't going to do.
Reddit is (somewhat) pro-anonymity and doesn't even require an e-mail when signing up and they encourage you not to use your legal name, with username suggestions like SpongebobSquarepants45, but I see why they don't like Tor. Had no problems with VPNs, although VPNs are not really anonymous and we have to blindly trust them.
Comment · 2 years ago
Interesting project. One thing I noticed: when I clicked the button, a fullscreen window got spawned, without any prompt asking me if I should enter fullscreen (Latest Firefox). On a sidenote: this could be used for browser-in-the-browser attacks[0] where someone could present a mock browser UI with a fake URL.
Other than that, it's a great project. Anything to just sit without distractions gives us an unfair advantage over the majority of the world's population who are addicted to phones.
[0] https://mrd0x.com/browser-in-the-browser-phishing-attack/
Comment · 2 years ago
> One logical possibility would be written records of some sort, using a substrate that hasn't survived—prone to waterlogging or insects, modern paper would certainly not survive across tens of kiloyears
Sometimes impermanence is a feature, not a bug. I was always told by my elders: 'The Internet is forever'. Once you put things on it, it's hard for them to be removed. A permanent record of sorts. But over the years I've found many sites just evaporate with entire Library of Alexandria events occurring daily on the web. Yes, we have Archive.org which has mirror copies, but it doesn't catch everything.
And bit rot is useful too. After I die, I don't really want my precious data lingering around. Let it rot.
Isn't this 'Vote with your wallet'? I know I vote with my wallet. Everything I buy is a vote for how I want the world to be, and what products I want to see flourish and prosper. I also evangelize these products to others so they get on board too, because I alone will not make much of a dent, unless I recruit others to purchase it too.