They’re not unblockable.

Every now and then Twitch wastes money on circumventing adblockers, but a few weeks later ublock filters will be updated to block that again. I’m currently watching without any ads or third party add-ons besides regular uBlock.

It is a paid VPN luckily though. The issue is with “free” VPN browser add-ons.

There’s also different adblocker rules and extensions for twitch ads.

For some games and websites I have to turn it off yeah. Or at least switch the server to one that isn’t blocked.

It’s a shame that websites are allowed to track and block VPNs.

Never use VPN add-ons for your browser. Unless you get them along with your paid VPN. You should run your entire network through the VPN, not just a browser.

The German foreign minister is an absolute embarrassment.

Is there a comparison to physical abuse? I’d be interested in which would be the worse way of upbringing.

Hey at least Stasi only spied on people they suspected.

It’s crazy that this is legal.

The Nuremberg trials were way too lenient. Instead of establishing the death sentence for every accused right from the go as they should have done, it became a diplomatic battleground between the Allied Powers and the Soviets.

Macron trying to legitimise his dictatorship (he gave the power to form a government to a party whose leaders he’s friends with that achieved only 5% of the vote) and garner sorely needed votes for the next election.

Proton did not only hand over data to the Swiss courts, but the French courts via that. They didn’t just comply with national laws, but those of other countries.

That contradicts their virtue signalled interest in privacy, when they’re willing to surrender any data without even putting up a fight. They did not even try to argue in courts against handing over private data. And considering this lead to the arrest of the activist, it either obviously wasn’t encrypted or Proton had the means to decrypt it on their end.

You can’t just link Proton’s own PR speak as a source to counter that. Of course they would defend themselves.

It’s not about the law, but what’s right to me.

Proton according to this post is virtue signalling. Claiming one thing, then doing the other.

No so does France. Proton helped convict a French environmental activist by providing the courts full access to their private proton account.

I’m sorry to tell you but smoking is completely socially accepted.

I can tell from personal experience. It’s not hypocritical.

It’s not entirely unjustified or wrong though. Women are awful.

Yeah I know of those app stores. Sadly they don’t automatically include anything also found on GitHub. So not everything is on there.

In theory it’s always easy, but in reality there will always be some major issue. I’ve tried switching to Ubuntu twice many years ago and there was always something that didn’t work. One time it even bricked my Windows install.

Currently before actually installing it, I’ve installed Pop OS in a virtual machine. I wish I had the screenshot, but entering 4 different commands to try and install VLC player and getting an error that the command is unknown each time is degrading. A lot of the first results for installing software on Linux has commands or repositories that don’t work and you have to keep looking. It was the command on the official VLC website that didn’t work for me…

I will mainly switch to Linux whenever I feel ready for the headache of setting it up for the first time too. Already got another M.2 SSD to run it alongside my existing Win 10 for anything that doesn’t run on Linux.

With the coming change I hope more countries will join the Belt & Road initiative.