Honestly, training their proprietary AI on GPL code (with no ability to opt out) was enough for me.

Google is an ad company. To them, a web browser is nothing more than a tool for collecting user data and delivering ads.

When you use a chromium based browser you are allowing google, an ad company, to decide what the future of web browsing should look like. And this is the result.

Firefox is the ONLY browser which is genuinely competing with google. Do you think ad and tracking blockers are going to get better or worse once they die out, and literally every major browser is running on chromium?

Use firefox and u-block origin. Enjoy a superior, ad free, browsing experience, and support the future of an open web.

LineageOS for microg: degoogled android. DuckDuckGo: search. Firefox: web browser. Ublock origin: ad blocker. Proton: email. OsmAnd+: maps.

Only google product I still use is youtube, but I have made some efforts here:

On desktop pc I use firefox with sponserblock and ublock origin to hide ads and automatically skip sponsered content. I also have an addon called unhook, which hides recommendations, ‘people also watched’ etc.

I also use and recommend Odysee as a youtube alternative.

On my TV I use SmartTubeNext, on my phone I use revanced.

I host my own music server with navidrome (and my own video media server with Jellyfin). But when I dont have access to that, I also use ViMusic as a youtube music replacement for (degoogled) android.

Can absolutely recommend any and all of the tools I listed.

The problem is that defederation is that it causes damage to the wider network, and can be far too easily abused.

It makes instance selection very important to the user (which is already a major friction point). And causes terrible UX when users can’t figure out why content is unavailable to them.

It can also be used as a weapon by powerhungry admins to force centralization around their instance.

I know there aren’t really great alternatives to defederation for content moderation right now. But I think that these could easily be implemented. For example, instances could maintain a ‘blocklist’ which users could automatically be subscribed to upon joining, but they would be able to inspect and ‘opt-out’ from blocking certain instances or categories if they desired.

I think this is a good balance of protecting users, and also respecting their freedom.

Keep in mind that this doesn’t mean they could POST rule breaking content. (They are still users of your instance after all). Just that they would have the choice of which content they feel comfortable with VIEWING.

When all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. And defederation is a nuclear powered sledgehammer lol.

Actually, I just read the article a little more closely, and it says that 27% support assisted suicide where the only affliction is poverty, while 20% support assisted suicide for ALL people regardless of circumstance.

So once you factor out the people that believe assisted suicide should be available to everybody, that leaves 7% of respondents who don’t support assited suicide for ANYONE who wants it, but do think that those afflicted by severe poverty should have the option available to them.

7% is a lot less than 1/3. And even then, there may be other factors at play. For example that 7% may include people who support the right to assisted suicide for the VAST majority of people, but with exceptions like for children, or those mentally unfit to make such a decision.

I think that article is a bit disengenuous. The people polled aren’t saying that homeless people should be killed. They are saying that homeless people should be allowed to commit suicide (with medical assistance).

I don’t neccesarily agree, I personally think that the ‘assisted’ part of assisted suicide should only be used in incredibly rare and exceptional circumstances.

But it’s not fair to claim that the people polled think homeless people SPECIFICALLY should have this option due to to their homelessness. I would imagine that a significant portion of people who responded this way believe that EVERYBODY should have this right, regardless of their circumstances, and that includes the homeless.