Discord also doesn't let you delete your data, thus breaking GDPR. They need something to sell to data brokers.

They do. https://ads.microsoft.com/

It's so the app still runs on ancient android versions. Use the Droid-ify client instead if you don't want that

Yes, I didn't mean that lobbying in general is bad, I mean lobbying against the interest of the public. It's commonly done by basically any big corporation + propaganda to gaslight people into believing that its in their benefit ( an example i have on hand: https://web.archive.org/web/20201102203132/https://safeandsecuredata.org/get-the-facts/ )

By tax evasion I mean in general doing anything to not have to pay tax, lobbying against rich people tax, keeping your assets as loans, etc.

I'll look into the shameless plug

Its not anymore, the new sparse index protocol is not using github.

I haven't used kagi, but the service being paid is not the red flag you think it is, as long as the privacy policy and ToS make sense.

When you factor out all the garbage content it's suddebly affordable lol

My concern is that billions of works are being used for training with no consent and no regard to the license, and that the model "learns" is not an excuse. If someone saved some of my content for personal use, sure, I don't mind that at all, but huge scale scraping for-profit operation downloading all content they physically can? Fuck off. I just blocked all the crawlers from ever accesing my websites (well, google and bing literally refuse to index my stuff properly anyway, so fuck them too, none of them even managed to read the sitemap properly, and it was definitely valid)

The thing is, you can't get that rich by playing fair, it's only possible at the expense of others. And I can assure you, most rich people are activelty making our lives worse.

I meant in general, not just with the current infrastructure, sorry for a late reply

Yes, they shouldn't, unironically

It is a viable option in about 90% of cases.