UBO and custom DNS works for me in FF. Sometimes I still get blocked so off to an Invidious instance I go (and they’re ad-free too) to watch whatever content I was trying to view.

ETA lots of people use DNS to proxy to Albania which yt doesn’t run ads for that region, they report it works fine but I haven’t tried it personally

You mean like the increase to capital gains tax Carney killed in his first few days as acting PM? He wasted no time letting his crew at Stripe and Shopify know who he gets shit done for.

It’s probably pretty obvious when terabytes of upload are accrued over a few days like what OP mentioned, by seeding 24/7.

Like most any paid VPN service they need to track bandwidth usage somewhat. They can’t see what you’re accessing but they can see how much of whatever it is. Windscribe also offers a free 10gb/mo plan so they do track it for that purpose as well, much like any VPN with a free tier would.

CopWatch used to be pretty active and has apps for iOS and Android, but I see they haven’t been updated in a couple of years.

Walmart also partnered with Klarna if that means anything to folks reading this. I’ve seen for years companies like Affirm (AFRM) being backed heavily by Shopify (they have exclusive deals at this point and AFRM is one of Klarna’s direct competitors). The BNPL universe is coming for everything, including basic necessities like food now I guess. Affirm is also close with Amazon.

If you turn it on its side it’s a tunnel.

• https://finance.yahoo.com/news/walmart-klarna-deal-impacts-affirm-182005254.html (to be clear I’m linking to a financial jargon article to illustrate how fucking insane it is to offer BNPL (buy-now-pay-later) services for any level of retail, not just food delivery like Doordash ffs)

Check out Way Down Town filmed in and about Calgary’s +15 urban walkway system. Hilarious film.

• Swindled - Mostly white-collar true crime with dark humor and disdain aplenty.
• 404 Media - The folks who used to do the Cyber podcast before they left VICE and are doing far better work, indy.
• Better Offline - Another tech podcast by Ed Zitron. He loves tech and can’t stand how fucked up the tech-bros are making the whole thing, at our collective expense.

I’ve always liked Commento which can be self hosted, and you can set it up to be no sign-up/anon for users.

Shopify is already long gone. More pointing out how corruption follows the money. Nobody in sales of a top company is unaware of the fuckery going on inside said company.

Everybody poops

lemme.ee doesn’t

Given that all Lemmy instances are run by private individuals you should probably think about using a vpn (or dns proxy at the very least) to obfuscate your true location and data. This applies to any mainstream or corporate social media platform, obv.

They’re anti-tax and pro-tarif. They’ve been firing Canadian support workers and devs for years and outsourcing overseas. And they’ve been hiding money in places like Ireland (a tax haven) by opening hubs there.

They are only still in Canada on paper at this point anyhow. Fuck them, go hang out with the wall street bros.

LOL

On Mac I’ve found Safari gets thru every time for some reason where chrome and Firefox do not. I might have the prevent IP tracking setting enabled or whatever but I never have to turn off my VPN (nor sign in) if the other browsers get flagged. Ymmv.

That could be the case. My work machine is on Debian 12 and I believe still on x11. I haven’t messed with Wayland yet.

I use these with good success. Can set up global/system-wide or per-app gestures and multi-finger actions. Works good in my opinion.

• https://github.com/JoseExposito/touche
• https://github.com/JoseExposito/touchegg

Bought this on a deep sale last summer and love it on the deck. I don’t tend to play racing games much but the crazy tracks and destruction physics looked way too fun and I’ve played it a ton.

lol