Only a few months really

I’m not and your tone is completely unnecessary so maybe dial it back a bit.

Yes, VC funding can be profitable. It’s also often not. Like any other investment. Corporations will absolutely lie and blow smoke up their ass if they think it can get them more money.

I agree!

Wow nuance much?

There’s plenty of nuance but that’s not relevant in generalities.

there’s a lot of good happening there too.

No one said it’s all bad. There’s lots of good everywhere. That doesn’t mean everywhere is an equally good place.

Have you been to China? If not, you should 100% go and check it out for yourself!

What am I going to find out by going there that I can’t read about? That I’ve been lied to? That the CCP isn’t blocking information about Tianenmen Square and other govt atrocities? That the mere act of protesting isn’t illegal? That they aren’t murdering dissidents? Privacy in it’s entirety isn’t illegal?

If they set strict level, all bots are blocked.

I don’t know what you don’t understand. These bots are not labeling themselves as bots. They are camouflaging themselves to look like any other type of traffic.

VC funding happens because the result is profitable.

No, VC funding happens because investors are duped into thinking the result is profitable.

Their business is largely based on security and preventing specific types of actions on a site. Not just the mere act of visiting it.

What is blocked depends on what the website owner sets as settings in cloudflare.

And how does the owner know which connections are bots?

If they have to crawl the web while behaving like a normal human, it will be magnitudes slower and more costly.

They don’t care, they have trillions of dollars of VC money to power through.

they can literally just block the connection

block which connection? Again, these AI companies know people don’t want them crawling their sites and they do everything they can to be invisible. This has been an issue for years at this point.

just like they do with their DDoS mitigation

blocking DDoS is trivial by comparison.

they can already block VPN traffic unless it goes through their VPN

Yeah that’s how most VPNs work.

their whole business model is based on them being a man in the middle that decrypts ssl and analyses the requests plainly

Okay? Analyze all you want. They can’t stop bots on any of the other sites they regulate either.

about a third of the worldwide websites are using cloudflare so they have a pretry good birds eye view on behaviour of any machine that will be visiting a lot of websites

Great. Bots intentionally change up their behavior and identifying information as to be undetected.

I’ll get a Google Pixel with Graphene when my phone dies or gets lost.

ONE OF US, ONE OF US

I provided a synopsis, click the link if you want more details.

Okay great. Go ahead and explain to me how they plan to fight an army of bots doing everything they can to be invisible?

Guardian Project remains committed to producing free software. But for some of our key use cases, it is unfortunately not yet possible to address them without including some proprietary libraries in our free software apps. This means that the Guardian Project repository is no longer included in F-Droid by default.

I don’t believe they have that capability

There’s honestly far too many that still don’t offer any option outside of the Play Store.

Looks like it probably replaced your VPN so, you probably shouldn’t use that.

I’m not sure how effective that no tracking thing is

Not sure what you mean but you can disable tracking in any YT account. It’s in the settings.

Can’t be at all to do with the fact that Android has a much more open development and installation platform

Less to do with the “development platform” and more to do with the fact that you literally can’t install them on iOS devices because Apple would never approve them, and you need their blessing to get it installed.

In terms of cost, Android devices are much cheaper

Used to be. Not so much anymore. At least not the high end ones. Google reached price parity with Apple in the last generation.

Very cool, thanks!

i use Messenger since it is e2ee now

There’s no way to know that since it’s not open source.

Even if we did, we DO know that only message content is encrypted, metadata is still fair game, which is what Meta is after anyway.