It’s literally built on bittorrent protocols

literally webtorrents*

it’s already very well established that you can be held responsible for seeding copyright infringing material

Right, because you’re hosting it and distributing it. PeerTube is just like a window to non-local content (except for the local content, obvi).

I’ve seen some federated ones.

You as a user help propagate that content while you have it open.

I’m sure that’s a legal grey area that hasn’t been explored largely but I would think you would have to actually host the content or have it on your device locally.

Windows has been getting continuously worse so it’s not surprising that those with the income available are continuously willing to spend more to get out of it.

Something something Android is Linux 😅

Kinda hard to use your desktop in bed or hiding in the bathroom.

Username checks out

Yes, it was last year, sorry you missed it!

AKA TBLOP

Only a few months really

I’m not and your tone is completely unnecessary so maybe dial it back a bit.

Yes, VC funding can be profitable. It’s also often not. Like any other investment. Corporations will absolutely lie and blow smoke up their ass if they think it can get them more money.

I agree!

Wow nuance much?

There’s plenty of nuance but that’s not relevant in generalities.

there’s a lot of good happening there too.

No one said it’s all bad. There’s lots of good everywhere. That doesn’t mean everywhere is an equally good place.

Have you been to China? If not, you should 100% go and check it out for yourself!

What am I going to find out by going there that I can’t read about? That I’ve been lied to? That the CCP isn’t blocking information about Tianenmen Square and other govt atrocities? That the mere act of protesting isn’t illegal? That they aren’t murdering dissidents? Privacy in it’s entirety isn’t illegal?

If they set strict level, all bots are blocked.

I don’t know what you don’t understand. These bots are not labeling themselves as bots. They are camouflaging themselves to look like any other type of traffic.

VC funding happens because the result is profitable.

No, VC funding happens because investors are duped into thinking the result is profitable.

Their business is largely based on security and preventing specific types of actions on a site. Not just the mere act of visiting it.

What is blocked depends on what the website owner sets as settings in cloudflare.

And how does the owner know which connections are bots?

If they have to crawl the web while behaving like a normal human, it will be magnitudes slower and more costly.

They don’t care, they have trillions of dollars of VC money to power through.

they can literally just block the connection

block which connection? Again, these AI companies know people don’t want them crawling their sites and they do everything they can to be invisible. This has been an issue for years at this point.

just like they do with their DDoS mitigation

blocking DDoS is trivial by comparison.

they can already block VPN traffic unless it goes through their VPN

Yeah that’s how most VPNs work.

their whole business model is based on them being a man in the middle that decrypts ssl and analyses the requests plainly

Okay? Analyze all you want. They can’t stop bots on any of the other sites they regulate either.

about a third of the worldwide websites are using cloudflare so they have a pretry good birds eye view on behaviour of any machine that will be visiting a lot of websites

Great. Bots intentionally change up their behavior and identifying information as to be undetected.

I’ll get a Google Pixel with Graphene when my phone dies or gets lost.

ONE OF US, ONE OF US

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