Alyx Hinata 🇹🇩🚫💀 @alyx@gameliberty.club

I wonder if we might need to start building and using freemium internet browsers, if we really want to have online privacy.

If you look at something like Firefox, it generally has a pro-privacy stance, but at the same time, they take massive donations from Google, to make their search engine the default. They literally can't survive without the biggest threat to online privacy. So why the hell are people trusting Mozilla here, when Mozilla is literally throwing any beginner user to the wolves with this move? What, doesn't your grandma also have a right to her data privacy? Just because someone doesn't know technology well enough to change a search engine, it doesn't make it right for Mozilla to essentially profit from their ignorance.
And this does not even get into the issue that we ultimately don't know what Mozilla does with some of your data, like bookmarks that you can sync with their server. If they're cash strapped, why wouldn't they make some extra money by secretly giving that away?

A freemium model might help a browser sustain itself without being dependent on donations from big tech companies that have ulterior motives and goals.

Gacha gaming has unfortunately shown that the 80-20 rule is strong. You can have 80% of the people using a product for free, while 20% are more than able and willing to whale like crazy and sustain the developer of the product.
It doesn't need to be as exploitative as the average gacha game, but what if a similar model could be made to work for other software? A crazy good browser that gets it's money from selling themes? People are perfectly willing to spend money for game cosmetics, you think someone wouldn't spend money for a nice browser theme?

It's a crazy idea, an insane one even. But is it any crazier than expecting the people who take money from the companies that threaten your privacy, to protect your privacy? Isn't that a conflict of interest? I don't even know why I didn't think about this before (the conflict of interest thing).

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Romanians have a children's limerick that you use when someone insults you to basically say back at them that they're projecting.

Cine zice, ăla este,
Ca măgarul din poveste,
Și măgarul a murit,
Și tu l-ai înlocuit!

(He who says it, is it,
Like the donkey in the story,
And the donkey died,
And you replaced him!)

Haven't thought about this in many years. There's quite a bit of wisdom in this little poem.

>entertainment media has unrealistic expectations of women
Feminists really took projection to a whole new level with this one. With more and more articles coming out about how women can't find someone to marry because their requirements are to high, it really shows how ridiculous women's expectations of men were all along.

They added the "lava chicken" Minecraft Movie song into the game... Someone needs to die for this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChEkbiBzILc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNSRNxY5Wc8

Impeach Donald Duck!

TFW your interests mix in the YT algorithm, and you get political updates from JP channels.

This might be the best post I've found of Fedi thus far.

Thing that pisses me off right now: all the AI YouTube channels that seem to be taking over.

How to trigger Americans:

Did I accidentally crack the code?

In their natural environment, women are in competition with each other over attracting the best man. But feminism gets them to compete with men instead. This tricks the more beautiful and capable women into wasting their energy somewhere else, potentially eliminating them from the dating market, while the more ugly, feminist types are left with less competition. Thus giving them an advantage in the mating game they wouldn't have had before.

This was a first thought as I woke up in the morning, so I'm sure there's holes and flaws in the reasoning. But it might be worth keeping in mind.

Mostly peaceful B-2.