resist1984 @resist1984@social.privacytools.io

@ilyess #Wire is not forthcoming about the gratis service. Obviously the corp premium service pays their bills so it makes sense that they would focus on that & downplay the less profitable services. Wire #justWorks, it's usable for normies, and most importantly it's inclusive (unlike #Signal). It works on mac,win,linux,ios,android. The metadata is public but it works over tor automatically

@ilyess The voicemail-only service sends the VMs to an email address, so I had to supply an email address but nothing else. And because it was gratis at the time of registration, I'm anonymous in principle (no payments to track). Of course there's no way to be anonymous when callers leave detailed voicemails, but I escape all the mass surveillance that's inherent in mobile phone service.

@1ll173r47 @ostechnix yes, it's an advancement by an environmental abuser. It's a good advancement, but they hope to get a reputation for being environmentally sound when in fact environmentalists should be boycotting Cloudflare entirely. Ideally, non-CF sites should have a way to signal which pages they've updated in a generic way, so the footprint is improved on all sites.

@1ll173r47 @ostechnix It's particularly disgusting that #DuckDuckGo is proactively keen to support crawling #Cloudflare sites, which is ultimately an abuse of #privacy & environmentally detrimental. Weinberg is such a scumbag for taking his already insanely high level of propaganda into the realm of corporate #greenwashing. Microsoft (DDG's supplier) is itself falsely positioned as a "green" corp.

@ostechnix @1ll173r47 In fact, a project that benefits the environment would be one that identifies websites that are anti-bot, & websites that push #CAPTCHA, both characteristics of which favor heavy image-rich web sessions. Paragraph 9 on this page covers CF environmental issues: https://git.disroot.org/cyberMonk/liberethos_paradigm/src/branch/master/rap_sheets/cloudflare.md

@1ll173r47 @ostechnix Because #Cloudflare is the top offender of privacy on the web & probably the top environmental abuser on the net, it's actually best just to avoid Cloudflare sites altogether. So the most environmentally friendly search engine is one that does not crawl CF sites, & does not send people to CF sites either (where CAPTCHAs would be presented).

@ostechnix @1ll173r47 So #Cloudflare is trying to get credit for DoSing beneficial bots that it has mislabelled as "malicious", & at the same time fails to acknowledge that bots actually represent the most environmentally friendly traffic there is: bots fetch text not images (generally), giving bots a naturally small footprint.

@1ll173r47 @ostechnix It should 1st be realized that #Cloudflare is inherently harmful to the environment b/c of all the #CAPTCHA images it needlessly pushes. Bitmaps are the biggest burdon on the environment & CF probably pushes more than any company in the world. Cloudflare claims all non-search robots are "malicious". This exposes the deception in their claim that Tor is mostly malicious (overcount).

@ostechnix We need to get the privacy-respecting population to stop promoting #DuckDuckGo, a privacy abuser in disguise: http://techrights.org/2021/03/15/duckduckgo-in-2021/

@ostechnix New dirt on #DDG: Weinberg is now endorsing the web top privacy adversary (#Cloudflare): http://web.archive.org/web/20210730102406/blog.cloudflare.com/crawler-hints-how-cloudflare-is-reducing-the-environmental-impact-of-web-searches/.

@lobsters @bacardi55 <voice of='John Travolta'> It would be worth it to become disabled just so I could sue the bastards myself.</voice> But by not having a disability, I'm basically limited to writing to enforcement agancies and hope that they take action for the greater good.

@bacardi55 @lobsters Cloudflare's CAPTCHA also discriminates against people with disabilities. And the sad thing is they've gotten away with it for decade so far. It seems no one is interested in enforcing 42 U.S.C. §1210 et seq. Enforcement agencies closing files without even questioning those who push inaccessible CAPTCHAs.

@Br0m3x this is some of the info that was removed, among other things: https://web.archive.org/web/20200206213537/trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/24351

@yngmar #Amazon got fined 746 million EUR for #GDPR violations 🎉 https://www.cnet.com/news/amazon-hit-with-record-888m-fine-over-gdpr-violations/ #boycottAmazon

@walter right.. the answer should always be the same. It's effectively more of a CAPTCHA to eliminate non-gentoo users. A determined bot author would have no problem with it, but it likely exceeds their threshold of inconvenience.

@walter what does zerro based mean?