But what do you want to do about the tech companies? Refusing to use their services might be an improvement for the individual, but almost to no one will do this. Whats needed is a convenient, easy to use alternative with (almost) feature parity to Google and Co. Only then people will switch.
Good luck developing and maintaining such services without corporate funding.
Itās so successful in fact, that SEC is attacking it 
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I never heard of LBRY, thanks. Of course I know Odysee, letās hope it becomes more adopted in the future.
But these projects still donāt cover searching or websites or browsersā¦ (Letās not get into browsers here please, there are enough threads already)
And the problem of adoption remains.
Itās the same, LBRY is just a FOSS protocol underneath it
When i was a kid growing up we used to always be told donāt put all your eggs into one basket. Not a lesson being taught today i would have to presume. I donāt care for those āSilver Platterā types of programs. However even if i did I donāt want it being owned by and ad company. I remember when the internet was not owned it was great. However now it is being taken over by corporations who simply donāt care about you me or our children. Our freedom is in the way of their bottom line.
The vast majority of people want āSolver Platterā programs. And you canāt change that, so if youād want to actively decrease Googles influence youād need to make something at least as good as Google (or any other of these services)
Complaining wonāt change a thing. Sorry, I know Iām harsh, but thatās how it is. I am not claiming I do anything against corporations etc., so I am not any better, but wanted to point this out.
Odysee requires an account before one can disable autoplay. That s a deal breaker for me.
If thatās your dealbreaker, why not use anonymous account with some temp email?
yeah the vast majority of the people also want to be free from terrorist they just donāt want to be spyed on but they are anyways. The problem now is that its not just the governments spying on us now it includes Corporations.
your right complaining wont change a thing but Iām not complaining just stated my view as you state yours. as far as being harsh this only encourages one to not listen to what your saying.
Before we know it will be required by law to have a Google cam in your toilet and in your shower for your own safety.
OK. I used a Guerrilla Mail address. Let s see how long the account lasts 
Yea. It s pretty hard to call it all a conspiracy theory when it s so obvious. All one can do anymore is to throw out red hearings, and hope they take the bait, but I m not so sure how well that works anymore either. I ve been thinking lately about a computers UUID, and wondering how anonymous a person really is; even with a vpn. The govt. has some pretty cool toys.
VPN is a joke, it wonāt give you anonymity.
In my view, unless you use:
- 100% FOSS hardware (RISC-V)
- 100% FOSS software
- 100% FOSS router hardware / software
- Some server that you personally run your own FOSS DNS resolver software for your router
- Some network like Tor or lokinet for all connections, or just using Whonix
You can never be sure on anonymity, and even then theoretically you can be compromised, purely by your own mistakesā¦
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I donāt like the āDRM for the Internetā rhetoric, it immediately poisons the well. Actual DRM for the web would look and work differently.
Reading through the proposal the danger seems to be that only certain groups like OS vendors ala Apple, Microsoft or Google are able to implement and therefore decide which application are able to permanently access parts of the Internet.
Alas the proposal is extremely abstract on how trust authorities are actually implemented, but itās hard to imagine how it could be done without an e.g. Secure Boot hardware backed chain of trust.
As a mitigation the āHoldbackā idea is interesting. Nonetheless the establishment of those trust authorities canāt be ignored and sounds very worrisome from the āopen webā perspective.
If your browser canāt play videos at all, autoplay is by definition disabled.
How is that not DRM? Itās literally DRM.
Thatās as close as you can get.
The only way to be anonymous on the internet.
Is to stay off of it.
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You can get pretty close to anonymity with Whonix+Tor. Of course, there is no foolproof way, and you can never be 100% sure, but many very wanted men have been able to use this to have access internet access and yet they managed to avoid getting located for years.
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Yeah i remember when iāve first bought a PC and was just doing stuff locally, then friends have agitated me that internet is super cool and you really need to get itā¦I was like, wait NO. Are you nuts? Itās not safe, anyone can trace back to meā¦ 
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