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You are being watched. The government has a secret system, a machine, that spies on you every hour of every day.

You are correct. It is illegal.

The problem is, that the law is not absolute. Neither in it's writing nor it's application.

Large companies regularly break the law (especially data protection) and face very little consequences. Either because they can afford a staff of lawyers to find and build loopholes, or through schmoozing with the right desicion makers. Paying a fine of 20 million is not much when you made 20 billion (20 thousand million) in profit.

Even more so, very large companies (think Facebook or Google) hold enough political power to influence or even change laws.

Source:

https://thedoperider.blogspot.com/2011/06/dope-rider-in-high-times-part-3.html?m=1

More Source:

https://archive.hightimes.com/issue/19810101/print

Alright, thanks for the correction.

I do have lag issues with YouTube on FF as well, but only the video not the audio. I just assumed it was a codec issue, or just RAM management, since it only occurs when I've been running FF plus a game like wow all day

It's also enabled by default.

Edit: Apparently it's not enabled by default. I tried brave some time ago and remembered that it was enabled, which promoted me to uninstall it immediately. Maybe it was enabled by default then, maybe I misremembered.

Having a VPN basically just means sending your traffic (albeit encrypted) to someone else's server, before sending it to the wider internet.

That means if you don't specifically disable it, everything you do in the brave browser could theoretically be logged, processed and analyzed by the owners of brave.

Even if the traffic itself is still encrypted, like with online banking, just knowing how many people in a certain city use which bank for example, could be very interesting to advertisers.

Depending on how evil they are, they could also log extensive amounts of user data, just waiting for the day it becomes legal to sift through it (just like a lot of governments do).

Or maybe they just log and sell your data even though it's illegal. Like a lot of companies do all the time (see Cambridge Analytical scandal etc.).

Or maybe they don't. But if I was a browser company I'd sure enjoy having all my users route all their traffic through servers I control.

Ich bin letztens in meiner deutschen Großstadt über eine Fußgängerbrücke geschländert, hab die 32 Grad im Spätsommer genossen und neidisch auf den Gridlock unter mir geschaut. Was wäre ich gern ein Autofahrer. So viel Freiheit, so viel Unabhängigkeit. Davon kann ein U-Bahn-Hahnrei wie ich nur träumen...

Absolut richtig, was du da sagst. Ich war da auch etwas stammtischig unterwegs :D

Ich habe mich letztes Ostern mit einer entfernten Verwandten über diese Themen angelegt. Zum Glück kann ich sie meiden, aber trotzdem steigt jedes Mal wieder eine unglaubliche Wut in mir hoch, wenn ich nur an die Situation denke. Weihnachten sehen wir uns wahrscheinlich wieder. Mal gucken ob sie respektiert, dass ich über solche Themen nicht sprechen möchte.

Fand den Peter Dingsbums an Anfang auch gut: "Die Ausländer bekommen 4.000€ pro Monat!" (Das sind übrigens bloß 444€ pro Person) "Meine Angestellten bekommen nicht so viel!" Ja aber warte Mal. Wer bestimmt denn, wie viel die Angestellten bekommen? denk denk Da müssen wohl die Ausländers dran Schuld sein...

Castle + Starfield, so probably Firefly again? (I still haven't watched Firefly)

Plot Twist: Muscle Mommys become a trend