VerPoilu

@VerPoilu@sopuli.xyz
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Funny, because neither of those are countries.

He said torrent, not tor.

Yeah, because books, the web, and educated people have a liberal bias.

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Answering captchas pays much much less than that.

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LibreTube is also a good one. Basically an app for piped

There is no domain name associated with the IPs.

Most importantly, usually, DDoS attacks use infected devices (PCs, mobile phones, smart fridges, shady browser addons etc...) to get many ip addresses and devices/locations and attack from everywhere at once.

Even with inflation. Answering captchas for 8 hours a day will get you maybe 100$ a month.

Those "jobs" are meant for third world countries. Even then it's a pretty low pay.

https://thebestbusinessadvice.com/captcha-typing-jobs/#h-how-much-can-you-earn-from-captcha-typing-jobs

I use TrackerControl. It doesn't block ads in browsers, however, so I use Firefox and ublock origin there.

Beehaw defederated with lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works because both of those instances allow(ed?) registering without email verification/captcha. They said it is bringing bots and spams. Haven't seen this issue personally. I recommend being a member of an instance that still federates with both lemmy.world/sh.itjust.works and Beehaw.

Some developers will publish their apps on github, you can download it, and use a different app to get the apk file from the app you get from the play store, and compare the hash of the file. If they're identical then Google didn't meddle with it. If they're not, either Google did, or the developer releases a different version to Google Play.

When using a browser they can get your user agent (https://www.whatsmyua.info) They can also get some information about your device, like pixel resolution, screen size (https://www.whatismyscreenresolution.org), gpu (https://hardwaretester.com/gpu) etc...

All of those data combined make a fingerprint for your browser, that can be more or less unique.

I recommend having a look here for more information about how fingerprinting works and how to protect from it, and to see how "unique" your browser is (https://coveryourtracks.eff.org).

When using an app, it's a whole lot more complicated to escape from it, but one step I can recommend, is to delete your phone advertisement id (https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/05/how-disable-ad-id-tracking-ios-and-android-and-why-you-should-do-it-now).

That been said, from my own reddit gdpr export, it doesn't look like reddit is doing any fingerprinting of that sort. I haven't looked so close at it yet, however.

There is no way a DDoS on the website in affecting the crawler. Also, running a DDoS attack of this size costs a lot of money (if you rent the network, if you own it it costs money as lost sales). No one is giving AI control over a DDoS network to just fuck around.

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I think you meant this one: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8JrqH2oOTK4

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It would be crazy expensive to run an attack of this size for years.

Alternatively, in a similar fashion. Use "hail" to auto pause any app you want so they don't run in the background unintended.

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.aistra.hail/

Unfortunately, I think that while ad blockers won't work as well, they will still work good enough that most won't bother making the switch.

https://blog.getadblock.com/how-adblock-is-getting-ready-for-manifest-v3-6cf21a7884f6

https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/wiki/

https://adguard.com/en/blog/adguard-mv3.html

https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/1067als/comment/j3h00xj/

The main issue I see is the slow update of filters (which require an extension update). This might make YouTube win the cat and mouse game. Where YouTube updates(ed?) their blocking detection multiple time a day.

Browsers based on chromium do not have to follow exactly what the main branch is doing. If they want to keep supporting MV2 or support different rules for MV3, they can. Albeit it's a bit cumbersome.

Google playstore does not inject data in app packaging because it doesn't own the signature key. F-Droid, however, does. I mean, they own the signature, but they do not inject or modify apps. They could, though.

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That's wrong. Youtube dislike has its own database, and infers the bumber of dislikes based on the number of dislike it got and its userbase.

The plug-in stopped working because youtube changed its layout. It's coming back.