This looks fantastic. Thanks for the link!

It seems meta wants “off the record” meetings with instance admins, such as Fosstodon https://fosstodon.org/@kev/110592625692688836

I’m not sure its a good idea to recommend in privacy guides if it is a security issue or it breaks things…

Well, he has often had high paying jobs outside YouTube. He started his YouTube channel as an incidental thing. He’s not really super reliant on it due to his abilities and resume. I am hopeful he won’t jump the shark

That’s not how it works, actually. Its more sophisticated. The point is to provide easy access to options for a user that doesn’t want to root through the guts of a system

And no, it is more robust than that. This tool doesn’t lead to breakage. IT admins use this tool.

And finally, your last suggestions are beyond the ability of the average user

Honestly, we don’t deserve some of these good developer folks. We are super lucky to have them.

Relevant XKCD https://xkcd.com/2347/

You can get an executable if you prefer. And the code is on github so you can implement what you like

I do recognize your point about weblinks. But, you can trace what this weblink is going to do, since the code is open source. Nothing has to surprise you

Trust me you don’t know the half of it. As far as windows goes, it will be bleed your eyeballs off for how good it is.

Plus, and this is a big thing, you can restore your settings if you nuke something you didn’t want. This tool won’t bork the system

Oh yeah it is open source too, of course

Just wanna take a moment to let people know about a very, very good and reputable tool for privacy and windows. Honestly, it should be on the privacy guides website imho.

Linux is better, but if you have to use Windows, there is the Chris Titus Tech tool available. You can set power-user privacy options easily, massively debloat your windows installation, install programs, and easily set your update settings to security only, if that is what you want.

It’s also freaky easy to use, and comes from one of the foremost minds in the tech world today.

https://christitus.com/windows-tool/

That all true. The idea isn’t to remove yourself from the internet. Once you post to the internet, it’s there forever. No, what I am proposing is to hurt reddits chances of being a viable first party resource to train AI.

I’m considering using Power Delete Suite to delete my account, overwrite my previous comments, and maybe leaving a couple of my top comments up regarding tech support so people can still find information on troubleshooting

The devs of invidious need to be more careful and circumspect in their language and response. I believe they have a good chance of fighting this, and continuing the project regardless, but Don’t. Tickle. The dragon tail!

One, how does this differ from a GNOME or XFCE (or KDE) rice?

Two… JavaScript???

I’m not a coder but uh… Is that a good idea?