Rogue browser extensions are very rare these days. When people get redirected to malicious sites, it's almost always either due to the site having an infected WordPress installation or using a sketchy ad network.
>When people get redirected to malicious sites, it's almost always either due to the site having an infected WordPress installation or using a sketchy ad network.
That's often true. However, in this case when visiting the linked page[0] I am able to connect and view the article without issue.
Some details:
Location: USA
Browser: Firefox 128.14.0esr
Ublock Origin running with mostly default settings
Perhaps there's a location blocking issue and/or malware that targets certain locations/browser types?
A lot of claims about being "privacy first", but is there any way to actually verify these claims? For example they claim "no logs", but unless I log into their servers and personally check there is no way I can be sure, right? Is there something I'm missing?
They have shared IP address information before [1]. They have also shared information about the owner of a Proton Mail account with the FBI before.
In my opinion, Proton glows. If you're a nobody, they will protect your privacy, but if you matter then it seems they won't stand up for you. I still use Proton, but it's mostly for registering on sites for which I don't want to burn a Gmail account. I wouldn't do anything sketchy on it.
> They have shared IP address information before [1]. They have also shared information about the owner of a Proton Mail account with the FBI before.
Any other mail provider can, and most certainly has, done the same thing when forced by a court order.
No one is going to go to prison for you because of your $5.
> In my opinion, Proton glows. If you're a nobody, they will protect your privacy, but if you matter then it seems they won't stand up for you.
How does this differ from any other SaaS service? Unless you specifically target "bulletproof" services, that are oftentimes blocked anyway due to facilitating fraud, scams, and other illegal tranactions (since the whole point is them not obeying the law while operating, until they inevitability get shut down).
They've been audited by external organizations and had at least one legal request for log information where court was satisfied they couldn't comply due to their no log policy.
Put it in metadata. ;) Image-based languages can associate metadata with live objects, which is how stuff like category info and visibility is provided. It doesn't affect runtime, of course, but it can give you squiggly lines in the live environment editor.
I think it's a terrible idea to put your entire business in the hands of big tech companies who will take it away at the first sight of something they don't like with zero (legal or otherwise) recourse, sometimes in an entirely automated manner. Like it or not, ICANN and the DNS system remains mostly-neutral as it should be (even though Tier1 ISPs can be easily pressured into dropping/blackholing by activists, and some of them are activists themselves).
To be fair, we're not talking about millions here, it's genuinely billions.
Easily half of the world's population now have internet access, and vanishingly few ever manage to scale the walls of the beautiful gardens big companies graciously built for them.
Isn't that the idea behind an alternative to DNS? I think OP meant that we need a similar system based on clear rules and international cooperation for social media, in addition to host names.
> ICANN and the DNS system remains mostly-neutral as it should be
With emphasis on mostly. I believe most of the issues we have with DNS and name allocation could be solved if they were managed by an actual international non-profit organization. Alas, ICANN is an American for-profit company, whose corruption needs no more evidence.
If you don’t trust ICANN (and the generic top-level domains which they manage directly, like .com, .net, etc.), you might place more trust in the country code TLDs – which are independently managed by each country – where you may find a country with a more acceptable amount of corruption. Preferrably also in a country in which you have a legal presence.
Not quite; the interpolations are not eagerly stringified which is the potentially expensive part. In this sense it's kind of a middle ground between the two approaches.
