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You do almost everything through a VPN, and you have an encrypted DNS server or your queries are hidden privately by wireguard or something.
Is anyone the least bit worried that some of us may be on a list for their own absence in the mainstream internet? Would it merit a knock at the door from the McFascists one day?
I’ll be open, I’m on TOR right now. I don’t personally trust any hole that could link my personal identity to leftist politics, but still the worry persists that I’ll be asked a million questions in a white room about paying for internet traffic that is always obscured one day.
Maybe a few simple placeholders like a barely used Facebook account might cover some tracks, but I mean, if they looked, they’d still see tons of packets going to somesuch VPN company, or a TOR node and disappearing, which alone is suspicion enough from the Ai agents that may one day hunt us down like sheep by our online habits.
The bigger risk is more that some day you’ll simply be locked out of 99% of the Internet
I’m not as hardcore but I do many of the things you e mentioned here. If you’re truly browsing this way you’ve probably noticed the rate of captchas and cloudflare checks for “suspicious traffic” goes way up simply because you’re harder to profile. I get these all over, etsy, google search, random blogs, etc
Beyond that the lockout has already started for a great deal of the internet. Refuse a meta account? They’re aggressive about basically locking all of instagram and facebook away. Good luck buying and selling stuff as marketplace dominates local classifieds now, Craigslist is dead, ebay has greatly diminished the role of the used resale market to try and compete with amazon. Good luck with reading tons of info for niche projects run by boomers that insist on facebook groups. Similar for local irl community events in tons of places.
Twitter too, they’ll let you see one post but then locked out. Xcancel/nitter/etc kind of work but often break if you want to see more of a discussion. Reddit has finally blocked old.reddit if you don’t have an account and likely will go down the same path (so your niche communities and irl events run by millennials and younger will soon be locked away too)
Now ad networks are getting more aggressive about adblockers too. DNS blocking isn’t enough. Sometimes if you won’t run JavaScript to get past this the page won’t load with a generic error that endlessly loops. This is an ad network thing that infects thousand of corpo blogs (seriouseats, techmoan, etc) and tons of forums that have aggressive advertising to cover costs with a dwindling user base
Traffic on the internet is already overwhelmingly consolidated to tech giants. Even traffic outside of that is infected with vampiric ad networks. We’re moving to the days where if they can’t monetize your traffic they can and will become hostile to you and exclude you even when they’ve established themselves as something analogous to essential services. They are trying to break you, fuck them. But at its core this is about capital far more than politics. Of course fascism comes with that but the first thing will always be “how can we extract wealth from you”
And as always fuck advertising and if you work in advertising you are human scum that ruins everything you touch
And as always fuck advertising and if you work in advertising you are human scum that ruins everything you touch
Welp, found my new email sign off!