You should know this, The goal here is NOT to black pill you so that you give up. It's the opposite, to empower you with options and knowledge to improve, You can scroll through this article quickly, even if only reading the pictures, and you'd still get a lot from it: I dug through cybersecurity authors, hackers, law enforcement, developers, professors, and tech bloggers... And these are THE BEST quotes to understand Privacy with Web Browsers:

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Why Every Web Browser is Flawed Even Tor This might be the Best Article I Ever Wrote.. There is an old expression, if you steal one dude's work, it's plagiarism. If you steal from a huge amount of people, it's research. I dug through cybersecurity authors, hackers, law enforcement, developers, professors, and tech bloggers... And these are THE BEST quotes to understand Privacy with Web Browsers... As we live more and more of our lives in web apps, the browser has become the new operating system.. And the program is surveillance. In this article full of picture quotes, you'll learn what to be aware of, and how to handle it:

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Btw, the reason I’m linking to my website, instead of just posting it on Nostr, is because it’s formatted so beautifully with the quotes in boxes, and the main points in bold. So this way, you can easily skip to (and find) parts that interest you more. And, you'll benefit to learn this knowledge, even if you never use Tor Browser, Librewolf, or my app. As it's your life's data, you should know what organizations are doing with it. And when you're not really as private as NSA-Google-Search-Youtube-All-Everything-SEO would lead you to believe.

Europe's New Censorship Committee Fast Summary: -EU created a new special committee [1] -Bullshit name of "European Union Democracy Shield (EUDS)" -Goal is to censor "hate speech", "misinformation", and "foreign influence" [2] -Critics point out that George Soros has ties to this, and that's ironically foreign influence [2] -Nathalie Loiseau is in charge. She's a friend of French president Macron. [4] And funded by George Soros [2]. -French President Emmanuel Macron is unpopular, and wishes to crush dissent. -Committee will recommend to Parliament actions, that will be heard promptly on a schedule. [3] -Ironically, my reporting of it now, would likely be labeled as a violation. [No source, I'm clowning.. don't shoot] Sources: [1] https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/news/these-are-the-meps-on-the-eps-two-special-committees/ [2] https://reclaimthenet.org/eu-democracy-shield-loiseau-chair-tech-giants-control [3] https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/TA-10-2024-0065_EN.html [4]

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Divide and conquer is the strategy of the predator class. They can only maintain power if we fight among ourselves. Further, Value is subjective and exists in the mind of the buyer. Typing the word "shit" is not particularly persuasive, and just divides communities. Nostr is rather ironic, for a group interested in lack of censorship, you want to ban an entire group of new tech View quoted note →

There were all these headlines about "Google AI being sentient" But ironically, Google's AI is the worst of the pack, and can't even get basic facts right. Their new SuperBowl ads showcase the AI making flawed statements. After a huge backlash, they responded: "This is a creative writing aid, and is not intended to be factual." [1] Ohhhh you know what else is "creative"? Mainstream Newspapers. Maybe Mainstream News uses Mainstream AI. Source: [1]

The Verge

Google’s AI Super Bowl ad is wrong about cheese

Food for thought.

New Bitcoin company? It's Trump's. The whole point of Bitcoin is to protect your wealth FROM the government. Not the guy in charge of preserving the US dollar's value is profiting off selling you the exit ramp. Here's the headline: "Trump Media Expands into Financial Services with Truth.Fi, Investing $250M in “Patriot Economy”" With: "cryptocurrency-related securities such as Bitcoin." Further: "American patriots can protect themselves from the ever-present threat of cancellation, censorship, debanking, and privacy violations committed by Big Tech and woke corporations" You can't protect me from debanking, when you're in charge of the financial services regulators. You can't protect me from privacy violations, when you're in charge of the NSA & CIA.

Facebook is blocking and banning discussion of Linux DistroWatch and other Linux influencers are getting the gag: "Attempts to engage in topics surrounding the open-source operating system are being branded as violating Facebook’s Community Standards, with the posts being labeled as cybersecurity threats." At least they still allow Linux users to use the website itself, and that matters far more than being able to talk about Linux. Good time to pitch to Nostr to these guys. Sources:

Tom

Facebook flags Linux topics as

DistroWatch is one of the largest affected organizations.

TechRadar

Facebook is blocking Linux topics and channels with no apparent reason

Facebook has taken an anti-Linux stance

Radical New AI changes Privacy: DeepSeek Chinese AI can train the model for a fraction of the cost. DeepSeek can do it for like 6 million, when ChatGPT is 100 million This has huge implications for privacy, as device, ping time, and browser fingerprints, which are 70+ factors, can be trained much cheaper. Amazon and some airlines are already starting to develop with open source DeepSeek code base. Almost every major website in the future will be doing heavy AI pattern recognition to sell ads, and force you to unblock types of JavaScript... Due to how profitable it is to serve custom ads. Fingerprint-Pro already can see through Mullvad/Tor Browser letterboxing. And that JavaScript is sold to hundreds of major services. But now with cheap to train models, stuff using DeepSeek code-bases will do probability calculations on browser version, IP, timezone, screen dimensions, and much more with real reliability. Once again consider our system designed to evade this with different browser fingerprints that are created in a single easy click:

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Btw don't you dare post in the comments some black pill pessimism that the NSA and AI can see everything no matter what. We worked hard to develop this open source system, and there is no way to detect it. You can not undo that with one sentence of your blind pessimism.

Since both our SimpleX & Session rooms were DDoS'ed, And attackers can just make a new key/account with no restriction, I've been mostly enjoying our Signal group, it's easier to filter out spam. Come through and post good news stories, funny memes, or ask tech questions. It's a good group, people help each other,

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Follow this link to join a group on Signal Messenger.

You can hide your phone number in the security settings. Or get a bs number from this list:

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Riddle: Q: Are there tax breaks if you pay in $TRUMP coins? A: Yes, because you can write off the money you're about to lose.

I only got one left in stock at this favorable pricing, After this one sells, the future ones have to go up, due to seasonal changes. Just $635 total, including shipping: Brand New Pixel 9 Still sealed in the box 128gb storage Color: Black 1 Year Google Warranty You pick: get it still sealed, or we can Degoogle it for you. Have you heard our podcast on phone privacy?

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How and Why to get going with Phone Privacy. Covering MAC vs IMEI, VoIP, WiFi Triangulation, and more...

PGP Receipt: Backed by a binding deposit with an arbitrator:

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Doxxed Through a VPN: We interviewed Former Cybercrime Detective @Travis West about how he identified suspects through a VPN with a shared IP address. If you think just because you flip on a VPN, you're anonymous, then think again. This informative and to-the-point interview discusses timing attacks, and how law enforcement thinks about your device fingerprint. And even worse, this demonstrates that even local law enforcement can be using simple but effective techniques, to take advantage of the HUGE amount of data these Big Tech companies end up collecting and using. Do yourself a favor, and take 5 minutes to read this:

Doxxed Through VPNs: Former Cybercrime Detective | Simplified Privacy

If I die, then my words to you can be summarized with this: These Mega-Tech Corporations and Corrupt Governments work together to abuse you. But there are easy and simple options to improve.. If you're busy, then tackle one area of your life, learn or upgrade that area, and then you're progressing towards liberty at your own pace. But if you approach this with pessimism, then you let the enemy win. Because if the technology for freedom already exists, then pessimism is all they got.

I disagree with Odysee, (the video site). Our new Podcast page has the Arweave gateways linked, so it's like a CDN:

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That's how it should be done for Odysee, not on Cloudflare with their single domain. The end user should be interacting with the Arweave gateways directly. Otherwise, not only is it a privacy risk, but censorship-wise, you're going through Odysee.com only. Instead of following the creator's Arweave wallet. It would be like if the only way to see Nostr content, was through primal's domain. And you never even knew their npub, only their primal username.

New podcast on Nostr In Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, the productive members of society all opt out and go to Galt's Gulch. What if I told you that Galt's Gulch was real, and it exists today? Just it's not a physical place. It's Encryption as Identity: This griping podcast goes over the most compelling cases for Nostr, PGP contracts, and a parallel society. It can't change the whole world. But it can help you, Web:

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In Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, the productive members of society all opt out and go to Galt's Gulch. What if I told you that Galt's Gulch was real,...

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I changed my avatar for every OTHER social network first, Nostr is so intimate, yet at the same time none of us memorize each others npubs, and it's completely permissionless.. so a new graphic makes people feel like it's a new person. But ultimately, we should be rockin our own organization's relevant logo, instead of free third-party clipart. Like I said before, when we started on Nostr, I did not know if we would succeed in actually making this project. But now that we have. Just remember, I'm the same team behind the graphic & tech. I love you, and it's a change for the better

If you're saying "I don't care that much, I just want a little privacy from Big Tech" Then I'm replying that these tech giants are everywhere, on all these services, and sharing data. So isolating browser fingerprints with our VPN, is a fast, one-click, easy way to stop your data from being sold. While not dragging you down with inconvenient tools that get you blocked or stuff won't load right. While as if you're saying "I am worried government AI is monitoring me" Then I'm replying that nearly all of these VPN companies (such as Mullvad, IVPN, and Proton) all use the same huge international datacenters, like M247 and Datapacket, and so those same datacenter providers are seeing BOTH home IP addresses of nearly everyone you're interacting with. The exact same size packet is flowing in a linear path, from your house, to M247, to any service, to M247, to your friend... for all your Nostr DMs, Signal texts/calls, and literally everyone you're talking to. Even if you're using IVPN, and they are using Mullvad, you're both sucked into same legal court order to that same UK-owned provider. Instead, we focus on smaller underdogs, operating in only one country. Listen, Our VPN is easy to use, yet it's very hard to get people to understand why they should, and actually take a few minutes to download an app and do it... just like Nostr. So when you pitch Nostr, and your friends roll their eyes and say "yeah yeah later", that's how I feel right now. If only they cared, if only they'd see how it helps them:

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New Release: v1.2.2 w/ Auto Rotating WireGuard Keys! This version brings a new powerful settings tab: With Fine Tuned Control over Rotating WireGuard Keys: The ability to manage which profiles automatically rotate WireGuard keys and how often they do so. (prior it was manual) This empowers the end user to rotate profiles they use more, and minimize speed delays or metadata leaks. Advice on use: When it rotates, it has a minor delay to coordinate with the billing server, so turn the rotation on based on, how often you actually use the profile. Otherwise, you’d have a delay for nothing. Step 1: Get It

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Step 2. Verify To verify it, run this command: shasum -a 256 [filename] Should spit out this for version: 1.2.2: ef48e288a6eef2569ead67f74dc9add7f7dff0f12004edb35d017b7b0e561d90