People judging other people got really bad the last 10 years.

Should he have fought the mob instead?

lmao

Man I always thought Hawley would be a good president for the US.

Now I’m not so sure anymore.

Depending on the state you live in

Or country…

Yeah Lemmy too.

(edit: as in spreads to Lemmy too based on the brainrot I replied to)

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Until somebody sends that link to a user of your website and they get banned.

Could even be done with a hidden image on another website.

As I said it’s 100 times more advanced than that.

They can switch IPs, datacenters, regions, whatever they want. They even have access to BGP routing.

They also use some custom switches according to Wikipedia:

The private side of the network is a secret, but a recent disclosure from Google[90] indicate that they use custom built high-radix switch-routers (with a capacity of 128 × 10 Gigabit Ethernet port) for the wide area network. Running no less than two routers per datacenter (for redundancy) we can conclude that the Google network scales in the terabit per second range (with two fully loaded routers the bi-sectional bandwidth amount to 1,280 Gbit/s).

I think Google doesn’t care about that at all.

They most likely pay peanuts compared to you for “bandwidth” (which for them is more of an electricity cost and trough-output allocation than a specific numeric value like consumers and smaller companies have). You also cache the video on your own device making the multiple tab thing useless if you don’t know what you’re doing. And Google can also just block you when they attack their servers, move traffic around, and so much more advanced stuff that protects their infrastructure.

tl;dr: Trying to boycott Google by trying to waste their resources is useless.

They’re already too powerful, even without a monopoly on authentication.

Too powerful in what way? More power than they should have? Definitely. Too powerful to be stopped? I don’t think so.

I’m only partly ok with it if it comes with anonymization of my identity. It should be possible to authenticate yourself without anybody knowing who you are or knowing that you authenticated. Maybe we could use an ID card scanner that generates some sort of code that can be used for anonymous identity validation.

We should also be a lot harder on social media companies that abuse our data. These companies should not be allowed to exist.

That’s not what a shadowban is. A shadow ban is where the user does not know they are banned. These search terms were very obviously censorship and not a shadowban.

If it were a shadowban then you would still get results and be able to interact with it. But some results might have been hidden and your interactions would be hidden to others too. A shadowban is meant to make you believe you were not censored.

Commenting on stuff definitely strengthens it, but I wouldn’t know if a shadow ban changes that. I don’t think there’s much difference if you are shadowbanned or not, you’re still interacting with the content.

Filter bubbles are the strongest form of propaganda.

For anybody who ever had this happen, ChatGPT has some solutions to remedy the situation:

Automatically replace them with xcancel links or something.

First thing I do with the Google Assistent on Android Phones is to tell it to disable itself. Cool thing is that it does.

They need money to fix all the exploits in that spaghetti software.

Double woooosh