Who are all these extremist wackos who don’t already want to abolish capitalism?

“full-disk encryption” is the search keyword you’re looking for

vastly expands the pool of potential victims

I’m not brave enough at the moment to say it isn’t some kind of crime, but creating such images (as opposed to spamming them everywhere, using them for blackmail, or whatever) doesn’t seem to be a crime that involves any victims.

I tried to submit it to addons.mozilla.org but they didn’t accept it.

It sort of looks as if they did accept it. If they were hesitant, perhaps it has something to do with the description suggesting that it’s a broken and pointless temporary kludge, as well as calling Firefox “removed”, and the ridiculously irrelevant screenshot.

I didn’t realise it was that easy to build a simple firefox extension like that. Maybe I’ll modify it to disable the whole clipboard api and some other stuff.

I’ve just noticed that this is in c/piracy. I suppose there’s lots of interest in the story here and everywhere else, but I’d just like to remind you all that ad-blocking is not piracy.

I’m pretty sure the main system startup bottleneck is me typing the disk encryption passphrase.

If you can’t avoid it and you don’t trust it, you could probably turn off its wifi and then connect to it only through your own router+VPN.

You do have to figure though, that it’s only the most active users who will opt to pay $14/month

I’d say it’s more likely to be the most wealthy users who will pay the $14, and it seems plausible that the most devoted facebook users might care less about avoiding the ads than people who are there only reluctantly. So maybe slightly closer to the middle of that 11% to 342% range.

He has something of a tendency to sensationalize things.

Oh, it’s Lunduke. Had me worried for a moment, there.

It’s the kind of game where nobody wins.

To be more precise, my belief is that the main thing ECH does is make it more difficult some of the time (depending on the details of how the site works) for observers of network traffic to directly see which website you’ve visited if it’s one of those that have chosen to give all that data to Cloudflare or some similar system instead.

There also do still exist some simple web hosting setups that share many independent domain names on the same IP, but I think it’s not as common as it probably was when they first came up with the idea of encrypting the tls server name many years ago. Maybe it’ll make a comeback for sites whose users need to avoid censorship in this way if it’s true that domain fronting has generally become more difficult.

Sort of. They can still see which IP address you’re connecting to, which by itself or in combination with some minor traffic analysis is quite often enough to identify which website you’ve visited. Perhaps it isn’t if the website puts absolutely everything through a giant CDN like Cloudflare, but in that case it’s Cloudflare which gets to see all the sites you visit which isn’t a whole lot better than the status quo.

Still, it’s a little less information given away at least some of the time. Better to do it than not do it.

Alternative headline: Google is making it even harder for non-Google operators of mail servers to interoperate with gmail.

Given that there’s no hope for my scenario happening, I suppose that one will do.

Forget your ideas of utopia for the time being. First let’s reduce the copyright term to something reasonable like 14 years or less, and abolish legal protections for DRM such as the DMCA. It’s a big enough change to start with, and might lead to more people respecting the law. The absurdity of works being locked up by the heirs and successors of authors who’ve been dead for three generations is unjustifiable.

Eh, it depends. If you want maximum privacy then it’s probably a good idea. If you’re aware of the risks, have some trust in your ISP, don’t do anything that’s likely to attract unwanted attention, don’t care about making indiscriminate mass surveillance slightly more difficult, and live in a country where there isn’t too much censorship, then not really.

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They were pretty close to it in the 1980s.

https://i.redd.it/eb7tp8r27v721.jpg

I’d believe about 50% of it. Yes, it’s true that many VPN providers are not completely trustworthy. No, that doesn’t mean that they’re all bad or that none of them are worth using.

If you have a need for one, take the time to choose carefully. Setting up your own avoids the burden of having to find a good one, but is even more work and comes with some downsides if your aim is to have any protection against people who might want to track you down through your hosting provider.