Does “pay for privacy” mean “pay to not be tracked on Facebook and Instagram” or “pay to not be tracked on the whole internet”? I can somewhat see a reasoning for the former, but the latter is absolutely inexcusable: Meta doesn’t own the internet, and it never should be allowed to.

Even with XWayland?

Install cameras in their bedroom that streams to YouTube or Twitch 24/7. See if they really have nothing to hide.

Say it louder for the people at the back: adblock is a basic cybersecurity measurs

Even ignoring the surveillance aspect of ads, which I could go on a massive rant about, Google and other ad platforms themselves doesn’t seem to care about harming people with malvertising and scam ads. Why should I care about their revenue?

Same. I’d rather they not exist, but if they must, better that it isn’t under big tech’s grubby palms.

Technically true, but in practice, it’s very vulnerable to conglomeration of power by a few. Social media, for one: it’s not exactly a matter of quality to get users to use your platform. Beyond a certain threshold of minimum quality, people use and stay on a certain platform because the people they know are on it, such that it becomes a chicken and egg problem. Other than that, Google have such a ludicrous market share of web advertising (which unfortunately remains the primary method of monetising the web) that it’s very difficult to not use Google’s advertising, giving them immense power to surveil and monitor people. Google Chrome, which remains the most popular browser for reasons that elude me, has so much sway over the internet that it had the courage to even propose the idea of WEI. The infrastructure on which the entite internet runs are controlled by just a handful of massive ISPs, yet another centralisation of power.

Even more reason for me to never get a car!

Are adblockers even illegal? I didn’t think it was.

I know that some manufacturers ship QubesOS, those are intended for people with high threat models afaik.

Time to poison their data, I guess.

Neat, thanks! Makes me even more grateful that I decided to switch.

Thanks! I’ll be copypasting all of these to my notes haha

Is GrapheneOS affected?

What a coincidence, I’m trying to learn SELinux too! Any tips?

Wayland have worked flawlessly for me, but I do understand that I have a very simple use case, so ymmv.

Really fasttracked my Linux learning experience too. If you’re starting out Linux and are predisposed to masochism like I am, using Gentoo as your first distro really catalysed my understanding of Linux (at the cost of a week’s worth of crying and self-loathing lmao).

Gentoo lets you do basically whatever you want. The whole idea of it is that you make all the decisions in your system, as opposed to how most distros impose their developers’ choices.

To be honest, I only use it for fun. Unless you enjoy tinkering like I do, or you have really low RAM, there’s no reason to use it over glibc. I’m aware that Madaidan also mentioned that it is more secure, but I’m not too knowledgeable on that so I can’t really comment.

Even if they do remove them from the official stores, you can always go straight to the source and sideload it.