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SEO is spamming a link to your stupid blog all over Lemmy, apparently.
Astrill, only VPN with a good track record in China where I happen to live.
Most others crap out after a few weeks or months, and never bother to fix their protocols.
A mix of avira and malwarebytes locally, and virustotal if I'm especially sceptical.
Exactly. And lifetime is just about 100 bucks, who cares. Sure it sounds like more than the casual $2 you throw at a random app to remove ads, but considering that I used Sync daily for ~12 years, it's really just peanuts in the long run.
I've bought a bunch of seemingly cheaper apps and then used them 10 times over 2 years and they ended up discontinued, that's like 20 cents per use.
I'd have racked up tens of thousands with Sync that way. Easily the most used app on my phone.
$20 is what it takes to remove ads. Ultra is another subscription with different benefits altogether.
The actual blockers were fixed in the first couple days, if not hours. We are now at beta 23 within just 10 days since the internal testing began, lj has been working like a madman.
14 years primary account, 11 years alt. Mod in several >1 million communities.
Deleted everything, replaced my comments (>15k total) and posts (>500, including announcements on subs moderated) with a message stating my reasons, and then deleted both accounts. Plus 4 alts I sparsely used, between 3-8 years old.
The app is asking for a million permissions that are completely unnecessary. They are just as much of a data kraken as facbeook, google and apple, with the exception of people being fully transparent about professional achievements and qualifications. That's a definite reason to never give them access to my phone.
Those poor trees.
IMHO whenever you actively need something and the owner either doesn't make it available or the price is prohibitively expensive, it's justified. That especially includes papers, books and other tuition material that's been paywalled or made expensive as hell without any actual reason, even more so if the author gets next to no compensation.
Downloading series and movies that aren't being streamed anymore, by all means.
When it comes to current movies, it depends on what's available. Unfortunately most streaming platforms don't have Chinese subtitles, and my wife often struggles to fully follow the original audio and the English subs often disappear too quickly.
For software, my personal stance is that if you use something every once in a while, pirate away. If you use it regularly and/or generate income from it, then pay your dues.
Die Züge in Tschechien sind der Wahnsinn. Bin von Prag aus im Schlafwagen zu meiner Schwester nach Österreich gefahren, Einzelkabine, Abendessen und Frühstück inklusive, 22 Euro, gratis (schnelles!) Internet on board. Hat sogar für Netflix gereicht.
In DE versuche ich die Bahn zu meiden so gut es geht, so ein Drecksverein...
Grundsätzlich fliege ich am liebsten. Alles was >500km ist wird gar nicht groß nach Alternativen geguckt, 200-500km vergleiche ich Flug und Zug, darunter fahre ich selbst.
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Plenty of reasons.
And a bunch of other stuff I need in order to have a fully functioning device.