It’s not, it’s an add-on for shifting liability after the fact. Basically, if a site gets dinged as being part of showing some youth something truly evil, like confirming the existence of LGTBQI+ people on earth, then if the youth used a VPN, somehow the site is to blame. And likely fines come into play.

It’s like if a person that’s 19 buys alcohol with a fake ID in Utah - the liability is still on the place that unknowingly sold the liquor. It’s probably based on the same lack of logic.

It’s only parallel for now.

Once we contract judges and the justice system to Palantir to avoid costly things like humans passing judgement, then think of the savings!

That or we get one of those Network State Praxis type things.

TL;DR: 🤷‍♂️

ITT: A bunch of people who think they know a lot about radar, expect to run their own radar at home, and think they can do it better for cheaper.

I hope each one runs in there shouting “Shelly!? Where are you??!?!”

Does “it broke containment” mean it didn’t have permissions to anything and still managed to delete all the files it could find?

Which I’m sure he would rent out at a profit to MAGA goons for income.

Wonder if 10 floors of the plans are dedicated to the Epstein files.

Realistically, it’s likely that someone with money was denied access, and used their money to hire lobbyists to make this a political problem.

“We called ourselves the MOD Squad, short for Merchants of Death.”

Looks like Alcohol, tobacco, and firearms have a whole new set of friends.

Black flies (Simulium vittatum) is the actual name of the species.

Also, not new - here’s a brochure from 2014 about them.

Oh no, it was very specific and hard to cram all the words in to the time. Typical Sora is that it’s either screaming or long pauses.

It was used almost exclusively for slop and slop-based ads or videos that shouldn’t be slop. I was on there yesterday and some account had 2 videos of a woman in front of a plain wall talking for 15 seconds about tax implications for investments. A real human could have filed it with an iphone in 3 minutes.

But now that’s Google and Grok’s problems, I guess.

Reddit CEO: “What? We can’t sell user data on our increasingly punitive and terrible site because the bots keep fucking up the models trained on that data? Hold my beer…”

“Brand denies wrongdoing”

Of course. “Use is consent to the user agreement.”

They could get you to swear eternal fealty to Lord Xenu, Alien God of the Universe in the user agreement that you consent to by connecting the TV to the internet.

It’s textbook rent-seeking behavior. They discount the TV $201 to undercut someone else, and make up the difference selling the ads over the life of the TV.

This is how SO many things work, it’s only surprising that it’s taken this long. If you watch YT on this fancy TV, you’re getting the same thing.

No, they saw that comment and YT went and did something that fucked invidious today.

Time to donate to Invidious I guess.

I am worried that by allowing random users to surf using my network to prevent surveillance, someone will use my address to do malicious things, and I will get into legal consequences.

Yeah. That’s not a hidden risk, that’s an up-front risk you accept by using the extension. You may want to not let it keep running while the browser is closed, which would reduce how long the connection lets others use your IP.

All extensions make a fingerprint more identifiable. This is usually only used with Tor if a Tor connection is blocked, so if you’re just using this on Chrome or stock FF, yes, it will be very unique.

You’re having valid thoughts - but what are you trying to do? Why not just use a VPN?

You should check your browser fingerprint first. Anything privacy-focused likely already reports your timezone as UTC. I believe that Mullvad, LibreWolf, and Brave all do that.

And it’s not unnecessary at all. In fact, I’ve had to set my time zone to other countries where my VPN is set in order to use some sites, and set streaming device time zones to the US to not get dinged as using a VPN. This isn’t unreasonable at all.