What the fuck is this shit?

I wouldn’t go as far as saying it’s very easy to manipulate American oligarchs. However, they are relatively provincial and lack the capabilities to deal with truly complex challenges.

They operate in an environment with no real risk. They’ve never dealt with any real challenges. The US judicial system is a joke (even in China, Alibaba’s Jack Ma immediately regretted going on a public chimp out). US society is either openly supportive of corruption and criminality or lacks the capability (true desire and risk tolerance) to address corruption.

This is not to underestimate American oligarchs. They are extremely sophisticated and absolutely committed to their “number go up” fetish, but you also have to be real about what they are.

Let’s just hope they move fast and aren’t afraid to break things.

Good to hear.

No of course I am not down with tracking BS.

But I do use some smaller niche sites (for some of them I have subs or patron) and I would not want them to be hit (no clue what ad providers they use).

Because this will cause problems for independent website operators.

Blocking ads is one thing, but this risks fucking up their digital advertising accounts.

This is an excessive approach that risks collateral damage to 3rd parties who are not involved.

I have no issues with blocking ads (internet is unusable without ublock origin + Pihole), but actually simulating clicks is IMO not the right approach.

IMO, this is a bit much.

It’s one thing to block ads, it’s another thing to essentially participate in an ad fraud scheme. If this simply hurt Google, I would have no issues (they are corrupt criminals, an American oligarchic institution), but you also risking harming independent sites that have done nothing wrong.

Do you think I want to consent to an arbitration agreement

In many countries mandatory arbitration agreements in a B2C context are invalid. They have no legal power.

There are still many non-tankie, normal tech communities on ML though.

I am seeing a slow tendency to move off ML.

Why are you posting on ML in the first place?

It’s a tankie cesspool with instance-wide rules for white-washing genocide.

There are a few normal communities, but more and more of the normal ones are moving off of ML.