I don’t like the idea of paying too much for privacy, I fear this might be one more of capitalism ideas, creating the problem and offering you the solution.

So my privacy journey is limited:

• Listen to all songs downloaded offline
• Use VSCodium for coding (VSCode without telemetry)
• Lineage on Android
• Arch on PC, Windows 10 IoT LTSC (with debloat scripts, no linked account) for games
• LibreWolf on PC and IronFox on Android, both with LibRedirect enabled for all sites and uBO
• DNSNet on Android to block trackers system-wide, I also like to see which url is trying to track me
• All apps are mostly Lineage or AOSP native, Files, Calculator, Messages, Contacts etc…
• Use pCloud for backup with encrypted files (using GPG, not pCloud encryption, I send them encrypted)
• I use Lemmy and Invidious for entertainment
• Tuta as primary email and Proton as secondary

I think this is the main stuff, as I said, I try to avoid making new accounts, accessing new websites frequently, I’m going the opposite way and trying to de-tech as much as possible. Less digital accounts, less things to worry about.

I became less dependent of fancy things, a few time ago I couldn’t use YouTube without the app installed, which is very convenient, now I just use Invidious in browser.

My answer (OP): I use AI for short and small questions, like things I already know but I forgot, like “how to sort an array”, or about Linux commands, which I can test just in time or read the man page to make sure it works as intended.

I consider my privacy and environment, so I use a local AI (16b) for most of my questions, but for more complex things that I really need any possible help I use Deep Seek Coder v3.1 (671b) in the cloud via ollama.

I don’t use autocomplete code because it annoys me and don’t let me think about the code, I like to ask when I think I need it.

It’s a way to get you identity, they’ll probably ask for original documents and 3D selfie video

There’s Descenders (bike) and Descenders Next (ski/snow)

Meanwhile, my piracy stream app with all those combined together is working fine…

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Yea many people have this same problem, including me.

I went far to try to not get shadowbanned.

Downloaded a virtual machine > installed Ubuntu with all configs set to Netherlands > Only boot it when VPN to Netherlands is on > Downloaded Google Chrome > Accepted all kind of cookies I’ve seen > Created a new outlook email with the same IP > Created a Reddit account with SMS confirmation from Neatherlands and confirmed email.

My account lasted 5 days, I was able to post once, many people commented and upvoted, after that they removed all my posts and shadow banned my comments.

I also got a timeout of 6min between comments (more or less) since first day.

At the end it doesn’t worth it. The platform is full of toxicity and AI bots, here is a much healthy place, for now at least.

They’re flagging everybody, it’s nearly impossible to interact there as a new user. Worst part it that it’s not preventing bots, you still see a lot of AI generated posts and comments.

Not much if the guy isn’t bullet proof, any weapon would kill him, surely it won’t be like movies where heroes dodge bullets all the time.

I wonder if you can run Waydroid on mobile linux, it’d feel like an Android phone, but you’ll have more control over it because it’s actually just a container inside your OS, easily root etc…

They can’t know at what minute you paused or resumed a video via server side (this is sick to me)… Actually, this doesn’t even make sense, if they are able to know all of that via server-side why send redundant data via client-side?

I took a look and besides the amount of info they send, what draw my attention is that they send an accurate flag if you’re using an adblocker or not, not sure why tho, but they know who use and who don’t, they just chose to do nothing.

There are way more if you inspect it closely.

It’s the endpoint of new reddit that I mentioned in the post, if you block it the feed won’t load anymore.

I tried to use it a few days ago and the toxicity is insane, it feels like Reddit is filled with trash talking kids to draw attention to themselves or AIs.

You can’t have a healthy discussion there anymore.

The old reddit will work fine my friend, the new one won’t.

How would this be better than Linux mobile?

You really can’t tell that this isn’t being used for evil practices, personal info is leaving your machine via client-side requests, end of story. You can use your judgement, but by fact, you can’t really tell anything. I wouldn’t trust Reddit, if you trust them good of your.

If you want to believe Reddit is using it merely to make their website to work properly, be my guest.

Yes, so when we’re talking about calls to /api/* we’re talking about old.reddit.com, I didn’t say anything about calls to this endpoint on new reddit, the problem with new Reddit are calls made to https://www.reddit.com/svc/shreddit/events with a lot of trackers. It can’t be blocked.