QoL extensions I use on top of uBlock:

• Consent-O-Matic (auto denies those annoying “our 500 partners would like your data” popupd)
• FastForward (skips link shorteners)
• DeArrow (honest yt titles and thumbnails)
• SponsorBlock (skips sponsors in yt)
• Tamper-/Greasemonkey (various userscripts)
• Password manager of choice extension (Bitwarden for me)
• Dark Reader (dark mode sites without dark mode)

It really does depend on the job and office environment. Personally I go to the office every day (even when nobody else from my project is there), why wouldn’t I? Its a place where I can talk with people that have similar interests, play with colleagues on a footballtable and play chess against the managing director during work hours. Not to mention that working together does in fact go a lot easier if you can pull the relevant people into a meeting room together and hash something out.

Of course that doesn’t apply to every job everywhere, heck out of all jobs I’ve had so far only about half were anywhere close to being like the environment I have now.

And more factors are in play ofcourse, like if you have to drive an hour each way thats a lot of wasted time.

First they came for the people making jokes in private chats, and I did not speak out because I make no jokes in private chats.

Then they came for the anarchists, and I did not speak out because I am not an anarchist.

Then they came for the people organizing protests in private chats, and I did not speak out because I don’t take part in protest.

Then they came for everyone hating billionaires, and I did not speak out because maybe some day I’ll be one.

Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak out for me

The technology exists now, what makes you think they’re only filtering things you want them to.

The EU actually was working on a system described above based on some sort of zero knowledge proof (so verification via your gov’t id, but without the verifying party being able to assert anything other than age > 18 or whatever data you want to verify)

Unless you are talking about a future where the surveillance state has outlawed basic privacy your statement is just straight false. Sure they are getting there with backdoors in encryption etc, but we’re not quite there yet.

Just because criminals value their privacy doesn’t mean that everyone that values their privacy is a criminal.

Soft paywalls only exist on badly made sites (which make up a large part of all sites so it’s still more effective than it has any right to be).

Many news sites with paywalls have a proper hard paywall. The only way to get around those is with an account or with an exploit. Neither of those two are going to be published for use in an extension though (as it’d get deactivated very fast).

It’s kinda cool as in you can compile a bunch of languages to wasm, so instead of being locked to JavaScript (/typescript) you can instead code in e.g. rust, have all the advantages of the compiler and still run in the browser.

Illegal but not being enforced at all. Just like the big green ‘Track me daddy’ button next to a small grey ‘refuse’ button. Or the ones that force you to go through a list of every partner and disable each separate one. Or etc… All those are illegal, but companies love testing the limits, and with the level of enforcement… Yeah

You can absolutely blackmail innocent people. Not all information you don’t want to get shared is illegal.

E.g. If you send someone nudes and they blackmail you with: money or post online, the only one that committed a crime is the blackmailer.

Of course that doesn’t quite apply in this case, but it is dangerous to generalize.

That sounds like a great feature ngl

parents’ home, getting a job, getting married and having a child.

Grouping those stats is pretty much clickbait as they’re completely different. This is the data from the paper:

In 2005, living away from parents was the most commonly experienced milestone, with about 84% of 25-34 year olds living independently. By 2023, this percentage declined to 81%. Labor force participation became the most common marker of adulthood, with about 86% of young adults reporting being in the labor force in 2023. The share of young adults who completed their education by attaining a high school or college degree increased by 9 percentage points between 2005 to 2023, from 74% to 83%. Family formation milestones, on the other hand, were experienced less often. In 2005, about 62% of young adults had ever married, a share that declined by 18 percentage points to 44% by 2023. Similarly, the proportion of young adults who lived with a child in the household decreased by 16 percentage points from 55% to 39% over this 18-year period.

Which shows that: yeah, most young adults have a job and most young adults move out of their parents’ home. It’s really only the family formation milestones that are down. (Who can blame us though, in this economy)

The EU has something in the works with zero knowledge proofs. Which would be a good way to do this.

I still don’t agree on the fact that this needs doing at all… But at least it’s not as bad as the UK’s half-baked nonsense

Idiots and assholes exist everywhere. At least ours don’t have guns.

Especially dangerous because the script can change. So this stays up, gets indexed and put in the search results for people looking to do this… And then poof suddenly the script is an info stealer.

Might not even be the original poster doing this, maybe their account gets hacked and the link gets every so slightly edited.

Just bad practice.

Though I must admit I do use proxmox helper scripts… But at least that’s a somewhat trusted repo.

The sound isolation could be fixed by using a separate audio channel for Spotify, but no way it’s gonna be worth the effort as it’s not gonna be as good quality and if you’re considering doing all that you would be better off sailing the high seas (on one of the big music trackers)

8. You’re not a criminal, but you fear the definition of ‘criminal’ might change in the future

My OnePlus 2 (latest official android was 6, it’s running lineageos android 11 though) also got its assistant swapped with Gemini so idk

It’s actually a whole list of requirements. https://grapheneos.org/faq#future-devices

In Europe that used to be the case, but that changed not that long ago. Now providers are legally obligated to allow you to get your own modem