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[–] 25 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Guess we’re about to find out which sacred cow the US worships more, the military or corporate money.

I’m not holding my breath on which it is though

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    "Hot Singles In Your Area With Hand grenades! CliCk HeRe!"

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  • [–] 12 points 5 months ago

    I guess our soldiers are just going to have to take one for the team

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago

    Finally someone gets it

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago

    Oh what's that? The thing I've been warning about for decades, turns out I was right AGAIN? Well "good" I guess, and we'll learn from this and kill the spyware industry now right? Ah of course not, you just want to control it, yup how could I think otherwise..

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    Nooooo, reeeaaaalllly?!

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    End the NSA, FBI, CIA, cold turkey.

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    [–] 58 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    They are so close to understanding a solution, but they failed to choose the correct one.

    The real issue is that it is legal for these companies to stalk us then sell that data freely. Limit data collection for all citizens and heavily punish companies who continue to track.

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  • [–] 25 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    None of them have the guts to put CEOs behind bars.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    We dont even need them behind bars, give them fines that actually hurt. Talking several billions of dollars.

    They likely wouldn't do that either though but ffs I'd love it if they did something

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  • [–] 42 points 5 months ago (7 children)
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    Online advertising is a cancer I would say. When I get an ad mailer I'll look through pretty much the whole thing, because it's most likely local businesses and I know just looking won't come back to bite me in any way.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    OTOH, it seems like ~44% of junk mail gets thrown away without ever being opened: https://zerojunkmail.org/environmental-impact

    That's a bunch of environmental destruction and personal annoyances caused, so the label "cancer" seems fair to me.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    If they try to deceive me by making the outside look handwritten or using wording like "FINAL NOTICE" then yeah, straight in the trash without a 2nd look. If it's obviously an ad from the get go I'll usually give it a skim at least.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    That's good! But I'd still prefer if I and the other 44% could at least say "please stop producing and sending us trash".

    They should really make mailed advertisements opt-in, but of course the industry won't do that. And this what makes it cancerous IMO: they never give up trying to inject ads into people's lives.

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  • [–] -4 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    OTOH, serving content is not free and something needs to pay the hosting/publishing bills.

    The problem IMO is invasive ad serving tech and deceptive ads, which are often both uncurated and deceptive.

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  • [–] 30 points 5 months ago

    Now that the US has declared itself a foreign adversary for every other country on the planet, can we start banning online ads, at least from US companies?

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  • [–] 15 points 5 months ago

    They have condoned it for years. Pfff… double standards in surplus.

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  • [–] 14 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    I can't even pause my TV to read something without an ad appearing a second later.

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    I just bought a TV from a local B2B that does video displays/video walls. They had an extra 96 inch Planar, I paid a bit for them to haul it over but now I have a dumb TV with no bloatware installed on it.

    Apparently they have leftover stock from big projects on occasion and are happy to sell them when that happens.

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  • [–] 12 points 5 months ago

    Extremely critical support for the ad industry in this exactly singular instance

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago

    Lol. No shit, Sherlock. We've been screaming this for decades.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago

    That makes google a traitor.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago

    a decade too late, the ship and the cuntry has sailed

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    [–] 26 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    If only someone would have told them. I'm just amazed.

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  • [–] 14 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Yes...that's how big tech advertising industry works. It's how Google and Facebook make billions. How do they not know this?

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  • [+] 28 points 5 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (17 children)
  • [–] 11 points 5 months ago (16 children)

    i'm scrambling to obtain a router before the panopticon ban hits routers.

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago* (13 children)

    I love my GL.iNet router. It runs OpenWRT. I swapped to it a few months ago after getting a service upgrade and having my ISP try to force an Eero upon me.

    Edit: they sell mobile routers too iirc (saw your other message).

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Seconding this for anyone looking to buy one. Their pre-installed OpenWRT firmware is easy enough to use, and you can also set up AdGuard Home on some models (like a pi-hole but on your router).

    I would never, ever use the router or modem an ISP tries to stick you with. They charge you monthly for those, for one thing. I wouldn't be surprised if they had monitoring stuff on them, for another.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (9 children)

    Edit: they sell mobile routers too iirc (saw your other message).

    thank you for mentioning this. GL.iNet's mobile router didn't show up in my searches and it instantly blows my top contenders out of the water.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (8 children)

    No problem! They’ve got quite a few of them, so hopefully something there works.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (7 children)

    i wish they that they were american based or at least european or japanese; the money I've ended up flushing down the toilet on chinese mobile devices taught me the hard way that american carriers eventually ban them using technical excuses so counterfactual that the pretext is obvious to anyone who knows the tech.

    still, though, i'm highly tempted considering that it both costs less than the nighthawk m7 and has WAY MORE features/capabilities, so i should still get atleast 3-5 years of use out it before it too gets blocked by at&t or t-mobile.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (6 children)

    I've had one of GL.inet's routers for over a year now and I'm really happy with it. I surprisingly did not have my ISP barking at me when I replaced my old one with it, which was a relief. I don't use a mobile carrier for my home internet though, so I don't know if they're more picky about what you use.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    so I don’t know if they’re more picky about what you use.

    no one knows how picky they're going to be 5-ish years from now because the borders of our self-imposed & AI-driven panopticon are going to be in a state of flux for at least another decade.

    did your device come with openwrt?

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

    I hear you about the panopticon - I figured getting a Gl.iNet router is some protection, as I know what's running on it and I can keep all my network traffic behind a VPN with a killswitch. Of course, they could try to make those illegal down the road. Who knows.

    GL.iNet's devices come with their own fork of OpenWRT pre-installed. The UI is easy to navigate and it does everything I need it to, so I haven't felt any need to install OpenWRT proper, but if you want to, I believe you can easily find instructions to do so online.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    do they share the fork that they're using on github/gitea/codeberg/etc. that you know of?

    Of course, they could try to make those illegal down the road. Who knows.

    that's the clever part; they don't have to make it illegal because the american carriers are self-censoring themselves for pre-compliance and (i suspect) to minimize any controversy/publicity/awareness about it.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    They have a lot on their github, but I have no idea if it's current: https://github.com/orgs/gl-inet/repositories

    If my ISP tries banning my router, I'll be finding a new ISP. Of course, that's not going to help if they all fall in line.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    ... that’s not going to help if they all fall in line.

    i had the same thought; what will i do once they've blacklisted all alternatives?

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    This is a problem I think we need to start considering collectively. If the internet as we know it can no longer be relied upon for communication (at least not for anything of importance), how do we effectively organize? I don't have an answer, but I think we will have to come up with alternatives before the cage locks around us.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    Another recommendation for GL.iNet - been running one for a year and a half or so.

    Whole house VPN via Mullvad was extremely easy to configure, for instance. As well as setting up an isolated "guest" network for fussy and sus devices (AKA no VPN for that).

    You'll love it!

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  • [+] 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)
  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    i should i specified a mobile router. the prices on used/refurbished mobile routers are starting to rival brand new as inventories are starting to vanish because of the ban and i'm getting sick of my chinese phones getting blocked by american carriers.

    i'm planning on doing openwrt/tomato/etc. too and the homework i've done so far suggests that supportable routers are a bit older so i suspect that i'll have more leeway when it comes to the ban.

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    [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    Saw this coming thousands of miles away

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