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Yeah people when they discuss Neworking and VPNs I've noticed are either illiterate to the existence of https or are deliberately not mentioning it for the purpose of misleading people in some way (in the case of VPN sponsorships it's to get people to buy them).

Reddit also has a .onion as well. Funny considering their pride on Ban evasion detection they should outright block Tor.

I've also found that many ones that are blocked aren't completely blocked, I can access them by using a new circuit (lots of these sites seem to really hate European Exit nodes but anything else has typically worked).

For the love of god use Tor with tails, or at least just Tor on its own. Even that's probably overkill, but with telemetry monsters like Reddit it doesn't hurt to go above and beyond.

Generally the tracking Reddit does is this:

• Cookies

• Cross site tracking (just like Facebook does)

• Canvas Data and User agent (including browser window size)

• IP address (generally the last thing they target to prevent cross-bans on public WiFi and universities)

Replacing a laptop isn't necessary to get around it, this is a lie spread by moderators (and also admins in some cases) trying to mystify the ban evasion detection system in an effort to curb ban evasion. Using a private browser that limits information is usually sufficient, using Tor is very effective, and using Tor with tails is insanely effective if maybe a tiny bit overkill.

So you don't think people who post hateful stuff about trans people or deliberately spread dangerous or hateful misinformation, or people who spam multiple comments at once should be banned from the platform (or at the very least have their comments actioned by mods)? I'm saying that because Reddit originally intended the Downvotes system to be used to combat those specific types of scenarios, they said it was to control spam and malicious actors. These are things that should be dealt with using disciplinary action i.e. being booted.

If it was an agree/disagree system like many people think it is they wouldn't have added rate limiting to people with low or negative Karma or made it so communities can set karma restrictions. Even so I don't really think it's a good method either, it's almost just a softer less obvious form of shadowban.

Karma sucked ass on Reddit. Essentially people could ban you from participating because you pissed too many people off even though you didn't break any rules.

Karma count is an ass kissing metric, high karma shows that you kiss people's asses for upvotes, low or negative karma shows that people dislike what you say which is absolutely ok. People having different opinions vs going with the group is the difference between a healthy platform and an echo chamber.

By the way Trolls and malicious actors who that system is targeting should be dealt with directly. If someone's posting hateful transphobia instead of downvoting their acount they should just be BANNED from the community or the platform as a whole, keep bad people out of the community.

I never tried using WIndows on my Chromebook before, heard that it really performs badly on Chromebook hardware. You might have better luck with Linux if the error is happening in Windows so it might be worth giving it a shot.

Aren't most Chromebooks out there Intel CPUs and essentially PC hardware? I know there are a few arm ones but it's not most of them.

I would agree that if you're looking to buy a cheap computer an older Thinkpad beats a Chromebook by a long shot. Main benefit to Chromebooks is that if you get lucky you can obtain them for free, mine was permanently loaned to me by my high school (I didn't technically steal it from them, they just never asked for it back). I would've much preferred an old Thinkpad with Coreboot but the Chromebook was free so I can't really complain.

Light bulbs aren't planned obsolescence though, he even said as much in the video, light bulbs more akin to dish-soap which eventually runs out then a device made to be obsolete faster. They are consumable items, which run out or burn out, they are not expensive appliances with long lives, hell he even pointed out that some utilities gave them away for free.

FYI Most Chromebooks are Intel CPU computers, there are a few arm based ones but majority are Intel x86_64.

(prevents unenrolling and prevents sideloading Linux)

Should note that it's not completely foolproof, I know because I bypassed it. It's just not easy and technically you can get in trouble for it. Never got a 'vacation' for it though 😕