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https://youtube.com/watch?v=LW6RWSiR88s

IIRC Revanced uses its own microG fork.

The original YouTube app that it’s pafching is obviously still proprietary, but all patches and the patcher are open source.

I started using PipePipe, which is a fork of NewPipe that allows for signing into a Google account to authenticate.

I create dummy Google accounts using an old Android phone, as that doesn’t require a phone number.

The vast majority of people stick with defaults, no matter how shitty they are.

It’s not difficult to enforce regulations on car companies, but they provide bribes to politicians.

The “bigger systems” pre-corporate internet (and somewhat in the transition) were sometimes fairly large forums dedicated to one niche (sometimes multiple, but in the same general field). Once Reddit specifically came along after YouTube/Google laid the groundwork for the corporatization of the Internet, it centralized basically every forum to one website. Now even today, forums still exist, but it’s nowhere near what they once were.

That’s also not to mention sites like Geocities allowing basically everyone to have their own website (which of course, is another version of centralization, but with much more control given to its users).

And it’s not like corporations didn’t try to take control of the internet before 2005/2006. Just look at AOL in the 90s for a prime example, along with Flash, ActiveX/Internet Explorer, Quicktime/Realplayer browser plugins for video, etc.

Without capitalism, we would still see the internet grow, as even in the late 90s, it felt as if you were being left behind in society if you didn’t have an internet connection, but the way in which it grew would look much more akin to how it looked in the 90s and early 2000s.

The internet sure was far from perfect back then, but it was ours’.

Yes, but in order to properly learn our lesson to prevent this from happening again, we need to call out the root of the problem instead of/in addition to the tools or symptoms.

November, you say? I wonder what happened in November that caused Netanyahu to be emboldened to the point of planning Iranian assassinations…

https://csdb.dk/release/?id=139257

The arcade was the original version. There’s also a really good modern port on the Commodore 64 with a banging soundtrack called “Ghosts n Goblins Arcade”

EDIT: https://csdb.dk/release/?id=139257

Popcorn is just a method of eating butter or other oil-based flavours.

Or use Flavacol instead of salt if you want movie theatre popcorn.

You can also use an immutable Linux distro (SteamOS being the most popular) and install software with flatpak, which is sandboxed using bubblewrap.

They’ll probably find some way to make the process as tedious as possible and sell batteries for way more than they should.

Mullvad Browser on desktop (Tor Browser minus Tor, developed by the Tor project)

IronFox on mobile to replace Mull (RIP DivestOS)

Ungoogled Chromium if a website absolutely requires Chrome

What could be more American than vile racism and sexism?

For rich people specifically, but I’m guessing you were implying that.

Literally the Heritage Foundation

The reasoning is implicit, but obvious.

Yeah, you’re not going to be very anonymous if you RSVP to a protest. I just don’t understand the logic there.