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17 votes
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Vox Media, on the hunt for new revenue streams, is exploring putting up a pay wall on The Verge
28 votes -
OFTC IRC network loses 20,000 users overnight
11 votes -
The confessions of Marcus Hutchins, the hacker who saved the internet (2020)
38 votes -
The Net is a forest. It has fires. (2013)
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Google will now link to The Internet Archive to add more context to Search results
37 votes -
Google loses €2.4bn EU antitrust case for favouring its own shopping service
33 votes -
The Internet Archive lost their latest appeal. Here’s what that means for you.
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After seeing Wi-Fi network named “STINKY,” Navy found hidden Starlink dish on US warship
63 votes -
Russian dark web marketplace admins indicted after arrest in Miami
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Is Google doing its darndest to squeeze out Firefox or other browsers?
A question for the more tech-savvy here. I seem to recall an article about Google trying to eliminate competition by making it so that searches or other content would work well on Chrome but not...
A question for the more tech-savvy here.
I seem to recall an article about Google trying to eliminate competition by making it so that searches or other content would work well on Chrome but not on Firefox. I think I also heard they both run on Chromium, so the engine under the end is the same? I don't fully remember.
But where I'm going with this: I'm noticing lately that certain websites or searches won't work well with Firefox, but when i switch to Chrome, they go off without a hitch. I admit that this often involves personal information being entered (side note- I even had one incident where it didn't work on laptop and had to resort to my phone instead to get it to work). The problem is... I HATE using Chrome. There are some issues with Firefox occasionally, but I'm going to use FF about 90% of the time. And I think I heard that people are becoming more aware of how much of a bastard Chrome is... so is Chrome fighting back dirty to force people to come back over? Or could it possibly be some completely unrelated issue?
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Internet Archive loses appeal in Hachette v. Internet Archive
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End of the road: An AnandTech farewell
53 votes -
Dawn of a new era in Search: Balancing innovation, competition, and public good
23 votes -
IKEA is trialling its own second-hand online marketplace so that customers can sell to each other, rather than relying on buy-and-sell websites like eBay or Gumtree
42 votes -
Chinese government hackers penetrate US internet providers to spy
17 votes -
“Disenshittify or die” a rant about the history of tech, how it is bad and how it might get better
122 votes -
Google must destroy $5 billion worth of user data illegally collected in Incognito Mode
55 votes -
US FTC bans fake online reviews, inflated social media influence; rule takes effect in October
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Sustainability of FOSS: The Next Generation Internet ecosystem
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Susan Wojcicki, former YouTube CEO, dies at 56
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Been considering cutting down on YouTube
I find myself scrolling through YT hoping to see something to play in the background, occasionally checking things like TechLinked or MichaelMJD with occasional PointCrow and Dougdoug. But really...
I find myself scrolling through YT hoping to see something to play in the background, occasionally checking things like TechLinked or MichaelMJD with occasional PointCrow and Dougdoug. But really just wasting time doing nothing, just scrolling.
So I want to cut it off but I want to fill in that time with something else.
Anyone else has tried to cut off YT(Or at least minimize) YT from their life? I’m probably using YT the wrong way.
I would like some RSS feeds or podcast to make me go on YT less. Or thoughts/opinions/experiences from other people that used to have YT on almost all the time but minimized the time on YT.31 votes -
Google and Meta struck secret ads deal to target teenagers
61 votes -
Some subreddits could be paywalled, hints Reddit CEO
64 votes -
Google violated antitrust laws in online search, US judge rules
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iOS 18 adds new "Distraction Control" feature for Safari, similar to temporary element blocking with uBlock Origin
11 votes -
AI music generator Suno admits it was trained on ‘essentially all music files on the internet’
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Google Chrome warns uBlock Origin may soon be disabled
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PSA: Internet Archive “glitch” deletes years of user data and accounts
34 votes -
Websites are blocking the wrong AI scrapers (Because AI companies keep making new ones)
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FOSS funding vanishes from EU's 2025 Horizon program plans. Elimination of most Next Generation Internet funding 'incomprehensible,' says OW2 CEO Pierre-Yves Gibello.
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Has sexual content invaded too much of the internet?
Something I have been thinking about lately is how sexual content online seems to be proliferated and normalized much more than it used to be. I'll give a couple of examples. While I do not use...
Something I have been thinking about lately is how sexual content online seems to be proliferated and normalized much more than it used to be. I'll give a couple of examples.
While I do not use the big social media sites (Instagram, Facebook, TikTok) very often, I've seen questionable content while others are scrolling, as well as conversations both online and offline with others who do use them. Nearly all of these sites contain profiles of people who are primarily there to market an OnlyFans account or similar. And these profiles are pushed to various demographics, seemingly moreso to males.
Reddit has a very questionable history with this type of content. But outside of that, any subreddit that allows submission of photos of people will often include these models trying to promote themselves, and they frequently make it to the top of the subreddit. (Some reddit users make fun of this in subreddits such as r/UNBGBBIIVCHIDCTIICBG, which stands for "Upvoted Not Because Girl, But Because It Is Very Cool; However, I Do Concede That I Initially Clicked Because Girl").
Twitch is a livestreaming platform that primarily hosts streamers who are playing video games. Streaming other events or "just chatting" has grown in popularity, which I have no complaints about. But there has been a lot of controversy about sexual content on the platform. To address this to some degree, Twitch added a "Pools, Hot Tubs, and Beaches" category for people who are streaming in that specific context. But OnlyFans models do not stick to that category, and can easily be found in "Just Chatting." And I can personally say that regardless of how many times I select "Not Interested" on these streams, I continue to get suggestions for them.
Even generic chat applications (such as WhatsApp and Discord) are plagued with bot accounts that are either representative of an actual model or part of a scam, but in both cases, try to lure users in with sexual content.
I do want to say I have no issue with adult content when it is in the appropriate venue. Sites dedicated to pornography are completely fine for consenting adults. What I take issue with is how this content has expanded far beyond dedicated sites.
Society has reached a point where we hand off internet-connected devices to children at a very young age. Chromebooks are used in schools very early in education, and smartphones are given to kids early in life. It already seems to be common knowledge that social media use results in self-image issues in youth. These issues will likely be accelerated by social media not only showing a false image of how people live their lives but also the lengths they go to appear sexually appealing.
I'm not proposing some overreaching "save the children" censorship legislation is needed. But it's hard to imagine how this trend can be turned around. It produces a ton of clicks, which is all these user-posted content sites (and advertisers) care about. Is there anything that can be done, or is this just the new internet?
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Google now only search engine allowed to provide results from Reddit
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Any other Tildes users posting from within the great firewall?
It's nice having english language forums that don't require a vpn to access. Anyone got any other suggestions and any recommendations for vpns that work on mobile data reliably? I've found PIA,...
It's nice having english language forums that don't require a vpn to access. Anyone got any other suggestions and any recommendations for vpns that work on mobile data reliably? I've found PIA, Nord, and Proton to not work but Surfshark does for now if intermittently (more reliably on wifi).
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What's our thoughts on Perplexity.ai for search?
If you haven't used it yet, it's more like a cited source summary tool. I actually really like for questions such as "Who is X and why are they important?" I'm interested in people's thoughts on it.
15 votes -
Internet mysteries: The website you can only open once
21 votes -
What happened to user interfaces?
23 votes -
Someone is wrong on the internet (AGI Doom edition)
28 votes -
Microsoft says it's okay to steal content published on the web
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Microsoft CEO of AI claims online content is 'freeware' [and can be used to train LLMs in the absence of a specific directives from the author against this]
43 votes -
Polyfill supply chain attack hits 100K+ sites
45 votes -
Internet Archive forced to remove 500,000 books after publishers’ court win
59 votes -
Squabblr is now a free speech platform
139 votes -
Wikipedia's Philosophy game: A breakdown, and how someone broke it
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US House GOP leaders vow to block online privacy bill over intraparty pushback
19 votes