Jakob Fel

Just use Kotatsu (if you’re on Android). Best way to read manga online by far. https://github.com/KotatsuApp/Kotatsu

And I said elsewhere that I’m not okay with IDing users that way (though I’d absolutely love if we banned porn entirely). However, a lot of social media sites have specialized kids’ accounts. In cases like that, those accounts should be legally exempt from algorithm manipulation and given special privacy defaults.

As far as I can tell, THAT is what this bill is doing.

The ACLU has always been a joke. As for the EFF, I used to like them but they’ve been playing partisan politics lately and no longer focus on privacy and digital rights. Much like Mozilla, they’ve become some pseudo-NGO and that makes their opinions completely worthless.

For sure! I’m on a Mastodon instance called Retro Gaiden and while it’s not free speech (because political discussions are banned), the owner is really laid back and there is literally a rule, “no discussing your sexual orientation”. Basically, it’s designed to be a no drama instance about discussing retro culture. I wish there were more instances like that!

I know it’s usually an excuse to pass surveillance legislation but I don’t see how this bill even remotely promotes that. As far as I can see, it ensures platforms don’t push algorithmic manipulation on kids and it requires platforms to offer better default privacy settings for kids’ accounts.

Meanwhile the EFF and ACLU (usual suspects) are pushing a garbage narrative of baseless excuses. One has to wonder about their reasoning.

Yeah, I just feel like for my use case, I didn’t need all of those extra features that LibreWolf has. If people want privacy, it and Mullvad are great Firefox options, but Waterfox is more than solid for people who use it as an alternative for big tech type stuff.

It does, and it sucks even more because that’s all the Fediverse is outside of a few rare instances. Love this tech but the echo chamber makes me feel like giving up on the Fediverse at least a few times per week.

Not necessarily. I wouldnt be down for that, don’t get me wrong, but when there are dedicated “children’s account” options on a service, they should be legally exempt from algorithmic manipulation. Sure, without ID validation, that can be bypassed but that would be 100% on the parents. It’s not their fault they don’t know how these platforms push propaganda (of all sorts) on kids via algorithms, but it would be their fault if they didn’t ensure their kid was running on a kids account.

I fail to see how ensuring platforms don’t algorithmically push negative content on children, or how enforcing better default privacy options for children, is remotely a bad thing. As with most of what the Electronic Farce Foundation publishes today, this article was a word salad of excuses without reasoning.

Also find it pretty ironic and hypocritical that there’s a sudden outcry against “censorship” but just a couple years ago, it was apparently a tHrEaT to oUr dEmOcRaCy if anybody expressed any sort of skepticism over the narrative because tRuSt the sCiEnCe.

I switched to Brave Search when I switched to Brave, very pleased with it so far. Its image search isn’t quite as good but otherwise, I haven’t looked back.

Can’t answer for them but for me, sites would break, the cookie management was a pain in the backside, and I hated having it start in windowed literally every time I’d start the browser. It also doesn’t handle containers as well as the original FF addon did.

I switched to it after the Firefox debacle. Brave is my main browser and I used Firefox as an alt, but now it’s just Brave and Waterfox.

It’s not as heavy on the privacy protections as LibreWolf but it’s nowhere near the level of site breakage that I got with LibreWolf. Plus, unlike LibreWolf whose chief maintainer is heavily political and includes those politics in what changes are pushed (another major reason I abandoned Firefox), I have yet to see any blatant political statements or actions with Waterfox.

Considering the fact that I never used Firefox for privacy so much as having an alt to keep big tech sites separate from my main traffic, it works just fine.

If you’re on Android, you really need to use Kotatsu. If one source is taken down, you have a couple hundred other options and it doesn’t change the overall experience.

The ACLU is a freaking joke, not sure why you’d trust them. They’re literally making up excuses to try to prevent this from passing. Makes you wonder about their reasoning.

I genuinely wish nothing but the worst for Denuvo. Scum of the earth. DRM sucks, I do my best to avoid games with Denuvo.

Let’s hope it passes this time. The “controversy” seems to be the typical, forced nonsense. It’d be nothing but a win for children’s privacy and mental health.

What I’m saying is that it doesn’t matter where the information is. If it’s absolutely crucial information, archive it, but if it disappears from Reddit or wherever, it’s not like someone else will be incapable of asking again, here or elsewhere.

At this point, I actively encourage people to boycott this thing. Steam Deck is better anyways.

A good first step. FOSS projects have GOT to stop using Discord as their primary engagement and documentation method.

Eh, if the information already exists on the web somewhere, why reiterate it? Seems excessive to insist on asking on the Fediverse unless that information can’t be found on a search engine or through AI.