Move servers to a country without stupid laws and ignoring the notices/threats. Sure, they might block you in that country, but people will find a way.

Pretty sure 4chan still hasn’t paid fines to UK and doesn’t plan to as UK can’t really enforce such things abroad, they can just block you in their own country if you refuse.

You can see who is downloading from you. Granted, that’s only IP

RCS. Even with the added smart features, it’s still seen as a more secure alternative due to encryption and sender’s verification

Not sure what this comment means. I’m in a poor eastern country and I use VPN to Netherlands to browse torrent trackers. Pretty sure my country is far more problematic than central EU, but for whatever reason my poor country protects US interests more than most of the EU

Thank you for this list

But your (one of) solution is to kill half of the voting system to solve half of the vote manipulation. It’s like solving spam by turning off comments. I don’t think that is going to be a popular opinion

Turns out older phones with shitty displays that looked dark when viewing from sides were privacy phones all along.

Vote manipulation is done in both directions

It’s literally how what you see is regulated. If a company X wanted to hide products from company Y, they could make bots to auto-downvote Y products and upvotes X products.

Granted, I feel like more commonly vote manipulation is done for geopolitical reasons rather than astroturfing

By law, you cannot host and distribute licensed/copyrighted content, not talk about it. Not even reddit bans piracy related subs. Pretty sure FitGirl (was that the one?) uses a subreddit as official community.

we have stood with the artist community against piracy

Correct me if I’m wrong, but Anna’s archive is not giving you song downloads, but rather metadata

over a massive music data scrape

So when are you going to sue AI companies?

Is there an ethical music platform?

live in Latvia

Of all the places in the world, she/he lives in the same small state with 1.8 million people as me. TIL

So… not ok?

Comparing Warcraft to World of Warcraft is like comparing Heroes of Might and Magic 3 to Might and Magic 8

CS:GO is a free game

Was* a free game. Now it’s unavailable with no legal means of getting it.

Are there going to be private servers also rolledback to a previous version?

There have always been something called “legacy servers”. The link in this post that links to the download actually includes some of those servers.

What do you mean free? You literally can’t get this even with money. It’s called preservation and people enjoying the “good old versions”

Personally, if I can’t recommend anything specific, I just recommend nord series to anyone. I’ve also used it myself and the few people that bought it were quite happy.

Do note that it’s a mid-range phone, there are definitely better phones, but for the price they’re pretty much perfect

I keep hearing about oneplus 15 being too hot, which is never a good sign when you want your battery to last

Give up. I never buy something I can’t try out. There have been several games that caught my eye but were not available, and so I simply moved on