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I’d be interested in how the fact that the Tor browser in Tails has uBlock Origin pre-installed affects the security/anonymity of the browser instance. I’m all for blocking ads and trackers everywhere, but since regular Tor doesn’t have an ad blocker, wouldn’t fingerprinters be able to identify at least that you’re on Tails and not a normal OS? And therefore also know when you change where you’re accessing Tor from?

(Also, I totally thought this was referring to Tails from Sonic for a second lol)


BREAKING: Uyhgur organ harvesting isreal but is happening in Massachusetts
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Instead of giving food and other resources to the world's poor, it was spent on goddamn marketing.
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I see it as on the same level of a vegan advocacy organisation working with one of the biggest meat companies in the world. Sure, the vegan org might reduce the suffering of the animals under their control, but that shouldn’t be their goal, complete abolishment of animal agriculture should be.


How do we tell people that they can’t have more children than the replacement rate, or how do we determine when/who gets to have more than the default number of children?

https://invidio.xamh.de/watch?v=gUJmZ5hUy84


Bid an obscene amount of money on NFTs, then sell them because pretty much no cryptobro questions why they’re actually that expensive. I mean, look at the damn pictures of the monkeys. Why would something so hidious be worth so much.



On the other hand, Linux systems often contain more valuable things than Windows or Mac. The average person probably doesn’t have too much valuable data on their PC, but a web server? Database server? Corporate network control node? Those are jackpots in comparison.


Fun fact: “malware as a service” is very much a booming business on the black market. Usually in the form of cryptominers/cryptostealers, adware/scamware, and ransomware. You pay to buy prepackaged malware, usually one designed to make you money as a kind of return on investment, and deploy it.

It’s the reason security researchers often find that “this new malware going around” is “similar to/a strain of/uses the same engine as this older malware”.


And of course they went with the protect children route. Like they think sex offenders obey the law and won’t use E2EE just because the government tells them not to.

It’s also a guilt trip/thought stopping strategy. It’s designed to make anyone who supports E2EE look like they’re pedophiles or pedophile sympathesizers and effectively kills any discourse on the matter.




It’s been going on for years now. Not just with Bing, they give you a prompt like within Windows too when you go to change the default browser.

Same with Google. They promote chrome for all browser searches.

Dessalines is right. They can’t keep getting away with this.



New community: /c/twosentencehorror
[!twosentencehorror@lemmy.ml](https://lemmy.ml/c/twosentencehorror) Write a scary story in two sentences! From two sentence horror communities elsewhere, it's impressive how creative people can get with such short narratives, and I hope to bring that here!
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Reddit refuses to address vaccine misinformation, gives a pathetic response to widespread calls to do do so.
Archive.org links for the relevant content: [The original call to address vaccine misinformation](https://web.archive.org/web/20210826144511/https://old.reddit.com/r/vaxxhappened/comments/pbe8nj/we_call_upon_reddit_to_take_action_against_the/) [This post](https://web.archive.org/web/20210827214326/https://old.reddit.com/r/vaxxhappened/comments/pcb67h/response_to_yesterdays_admin_post/) [The Admin post this post is in response to](https://web.archive.org/web/20210827020425/https://old.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/pbmy5y/debate_dissent_and_protest_on_reddit/) # This is what the post says: Response to Yesterday's Admin Post Yesterday, over a thousand communities on Reddit made posts to their subreddits, calling for Reddit to take action against harmful misinformation on their site. These posts collectively gathered hundreds of thousands of upvotes, with users showing their support in the comments, and several large media outlets picking it up. Subsequently the admins posted a response to /r/Announcements, in which they stated that this misinformation would be allowed on their site, and that they will continue to action communities that violate their sitewide rules, including encouraging fake vaccine cards & "encouraging harm". They finished the announcement with a thinly veiled threat of punishing moderators who have participated in this protest, if it continues. The post was immediately locked, making it impossible to directly respond to. This statement from the admins is hypocritical, dishonest, and misrepresentative of the situation on their site. They are portraying the misinformation as simply discussion that criticises the majority opinion, when it is far more than that: It is discussion that actively advises against government guidelines, opting to follow disproven studies and anecdotal evidence. As stated in our original letter, this type of misinformation is dangerous. The admins are pretending like it is not. As redditors, we should come together against this harmful propaganda. Reddit's CEO /u/spez is claiming that the admins will take action on communities that "encourage harm", while allowing subreddits that advocate not taking an FDA-approved vaccine in favor of taking unapproved drugs, the effects of which have not been studied. Most notably is Ivermectin, a drug used to treat parasites and that the FDA has explicitly advised against using for Covid is often recommended by antivaxx subreddits, most notably r/Ivermectin. This type of misinformation is actively endangering people. The admins are simply sticking their head in the sand, and refusing to take any responsibility for the damage that their inaction is causing. Until Reddit takes action, we will continue to speak out against subreddits which exist solely to spread medical disinformation. # Here's how you can help: When you see antivaxx comments or submissions report them to the admins using this link: # https://www.reddit.com/report?reason=this-is-misinformation
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