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In my opinion, the internet seeing, for example, corporate-run parts of itself go to walled gardens (something I’ve heard mentioned before in this discussion), would be fine.

Take YouTube, it is extremely entrenched to the point that when I tell some people I don’t ever actually go to YouTube[.]com, they act as if it is a life requirement I have magically shirked.

It is not. There are other platforms. There are other media.

If YouTube simply shut down tomorrow, the internet would live on. If it required a monthly subscription via and required an account, the internet would live on. Some would give in and use it, some wouldn’t, and they would put more pressure on projects such as PeerTube to succeed.

In all of this, the “internet” (A bunch of interconnected servers using the HTTP(S) protocol), is still alive. It just changed.

Let’s not convince ourself that the floor will fall out from under us because you will have content that ceases to exist, or, more likely, you just have to pay.

If it were the 80s, you could probably see similar ideas. How could tech ever be anywhere close to usable if you just used free software? Well here we are. You can. And at least for me, its damn good.

live to tell the tale

This is again vague wordage. What does this mean exactly?

Survive

Meaning what?

I look at the Open-Source/Foss ecosystem and see amazing projects being built, tested, and utilized. All the while lacking the advertisements that some people seem to think are pivotal.

Blanket statements of a group are harmful.

Blanket, emotional statements are harmful.

you have to respect everyone’s pronouns, even if you think they are trolling, because its not up for debate and you don’t get to set conditions before you start calling someone by the right […].

The issue is, they are up to debate. You cannot have your pronoun be a 1000 character long word, or a slur, and expect other people to respect it, even though they can, few probably will.

The existence of these obvious scenarios means that you shouldn’t claim to respect everyone’s pronouns, when there are times where you wouldn’t.

Respect of pronouns is not binary. It is a gradient. An instance or community can choose rules somewhere on the gradient, but if you choose to allow all, then you will suffer similar issues to those who who claim to “tolerate all” types of behavior on their instance.

Just don’t choose an absolute stance, and then these issues won’t arise.

this article does not attempt to compare the privacy practices of each browser but rather their resistance to exploitation.

The Madaidans article lacks relevance, we are talking about fingerprinting.

Last I recall, Vanadium lags behind customized-Firefox in privacy features, and even more behind the Tor Browser.

Having a tool like Noscript is absolutely necessary, with today’s browsers, if you want to fight fingerprinting.

The data collected sounds like a nothing-burger. Of course they collect the data you upload, and of course they store data (like messages) that need to continue to be networked to clients.

How they use the data does sound like corporate trash though.