Brave has a filter list you can enable that works great at bypassing paywalls on news websites

Brave

I really hope the people who made or at least the ones who maintain grayjay, invidious and piped get to work on bypassing age restriction.

I really want to the internet to go back to the way it was 15 years ago, where nothing was so insanely restricted or controlled.

I hate that all the rich elites of the world are using Orwellian novels as instruction manuals

not anymore, fiddled with it, it worked without being signed in once, now it doesn’t work

Why does youtube suck so much? only a few years ago it was so much easier to access from anything. And now it’s way more restricted

Telegram is not private or secure.

One encryption key can unlock the entire service

On top of all that, it’s based on Chromium, which means that Google is in control of their upstream source code.

you can turn off the google stuff

Sending DNS requests to the local ISP when in TOR mode effectively removing protection against spying

there’s other ways of using TOR, and I don’t even think they do that anymore, they fixed the problem after the criticism came out

Installing an extra VPN service on Windows machines without user consent

Been using Brave for over 6 years now, that never happened on any of my machines

Replacing ads on websites with their own, and collecting that revenue

they don’t do that anymore, and honestly, I’d rather have it that way than allow google or facebook or any other website to have more money, but adblocking needs to be multi-layered anyway.

They’re just mad that they’re not going to get any of our support anymore, so they make fun of us.

Why is that bad? It’s a good browser

Brave blocks the nag-screens about opening and installing apps on your phone

Next DNS works too, just be sure you store your logs in a secure place like switzerland or just don’t make any logs at all. You can also use protonVPN, Mullvad or iVPN to access any site like that through a proxy outside of the US

Do some research on which countries allow pirating movies and TV shows and try to stick to those

If your internet provider gives you the third degree about using a VPN just say that you don’t want advertising companies to be able to see what you’re doing as easily, or you can claim that when you play games online, you don’t want any of those people to see where you really are. “I need to protect myself from anyone who gets salty with me after they lose”

You can also claim that you were using the VPN to see what’s available in other countries on youtube, netflix and so on.

Not that I would ever pirate anything, that would be bad…or something.

yeah…not sure if it works like that

they’re never going to do anything different. “orange man bad” is good for ratings on MSNBC and CNN

They have to comply with Swiss laws, otherwise their business would be illegal.

Don’t be a scumbag and proton won’t ever be compelled to snitch on you

read what I actually said. Unlimited everything ON PROTON PASS obviously the storage space you get on proton mail and proton drive is finite

But of course, piracy is bad. That’s why you shouldn’t ever do it! Why do you think every corporation has to get government handouts from the tax payers? Because we keep stealing from them…I mean…You keep stealing from them. I would never do that and I certainly don’t ever do that. I haven’t paid for any movies in over 10 years, so obviously that means I just don’t watch anything that costs money to see.

I use a privacy friendly VPN that allows P2P because I play games online and no other reason

They’re against censorship and in favor of free speech. If you hear about a VPN provider that blocks their users’ access to certain things based on the owner’s political beliefs that’s a shitty VPN provider

Full disclosure. I’m not a fan of Trump. I’m just a free speech absolutist and even if I hate what someone has to say I think they should be allowed to say it.

There’s already laws against threats, slander and libel and even doxing in some places.

proton.

Proton unlimited comes with unlimited everything on proton pass, including disposable email addresses

How do you define “wealthy”?

Stealing from a millionaire that actually operates his or her own business is not the same thing as stealing from someone like Jeff Bezos who doesn’t lift a fucking finger to contribute to the operation of the dozen or so businesses he owns.

You have to have nuance. Not everything is as simple as you made it sound.

And of course, they did go out of business. That’s why they need welfare from the government now.

You should never pirate anything, that would be bad.

There are people who understand what I’m saying, and then there’s the idiots that downvoted me on some of the comments I posted