it would be transformative to have fiber and solar everywhere

The more rural areas make that sort of rejection hard. In the area I live in, my choices are pretty limited. I have a terrible cable option (I used to have this one), cellular options (I'm on one of these now) and Starlink. For now, the cellular option is good enough, though lately the quality of service has been going downhill. We have a lot more days where our connection just seems to go to hell for no reason. We also get degraded service when storms are in the area. And don't get me started on the shit-tastic hardware. Fiber isn't an option. I have seriously considered Starlink, but the company being owned by Musk has kept me away. Unfortunately, if the cellular option continues to go to hell, I might be pushed into giving Starlink a shot.

We really need something akin to a Rural Electrification push for high speed internet, if we want to avoid the wireless carriers becoming the de facto last mile for those areas. That's going to be expensive and take a lot of time, and may not even be possible anymore. The wireless options are starting to be "good enough" and people may just choose them anyway.

I would love to not have starlink, but I don't have much choice. Slow fttc, mobile or starlink.

Even though round the corner is full fiber

I'm not arguing against your username, but this article is about an Israeli malware campaign using ad bids to specifically target itself towards Starlink users. There's nothing about Starlink itself being complicit.

I'd think if Starlink wanted to surveil their users (they probably do) they could find a more direct route than this (they probably have).

For one mistake? Seems like that would be appropriate if he had a track record of bad behavior perhaps.

I heard adblock was sold to advertising interests, and some of the creators that were against selling it made the content blocker ublockorigin, which works better than adblock ever did. Undetectable by websites too unlike adblockers.

Is that why a lot of people still don’t use it?

Despite being banned from Google ad platform

The most shocking news to me is that google banned something evil or malicious from their ad platform

People clapping for Internet on planes from Herr Tesla who led the massive data theft of social security and citizen records, and people would feign surprise?

As you said, duh

since 2022, when he slowed down ukraine startshield/link.

The whole point of Starlink was to bring broadband to rural areas... The places telephone and cable companies didn't want to build modern infrastructure for.
At the beginning you couldn't even sign up for Starlink near cities.

You'll never guess the country who made and distributed the spyware ads...

I read the post and it's still a "duh." Of course, other countries will exploit the systemic corruption in our system. It makes a lot of sense for governments in non-Starlink countries to target Starlink users on their territory because those are basically guaranteed to be spies or saboteurs. And yeah, ad targetting isn't exactly a new tactic. I just don't get how agents are not using uBlock Origin. Don't they get some basic computer security best practices course?

They could also location track you with really no way to hide that

What do you mean by this? If you mean "networks can always be listened on on" then sure. If you mean "all devices have a backdoor" then no.

In general people have no fucking idea or just don't want to know.

You can lay out the evidence of all the ways cigarettes will kill a person and a huge number of people will go ahead and smoke anyway. We are not an entirely rational species.

People have a massive capacity for self delusion. Even then a lot of people who accept the truth of living under corporate and government mass surveillance think the risks are acceptable or won't be abused or are unavoidable in modern life. They are wrong but I can understand how their delusion brings them comfort.

Can you clarify here, are you suggesting that any internet browsing should be via VM?

It's your user agent. Disable JavaScript

The real culprit is Earth itself, supporting millions of baddies by design.

IPFS, Usenet, GNUnet for the win.

I mean, the Venn diagram of X users and Starlink users is a circle.