For Decades the huge tech companies basically faced no adversity whatsoever. Now for the first time in their existence the massive returned investments in AI they are experiencing ... we will call it pain.

I would say it will be interesting to see what they do but I think rent-seeking, oppression, human rights violations would be more apt.

They were of course trustworthy proviers while they were untouchable but now I know how things are gonna go.

Isn't reCAPTCHA a spam? This video I watched recently does a nice history and also was enjoyable to watch https://youtu.be/seX_rDEsP6E?si

One positive thing about tools like Claude is that I can finally do things where I had originally no time for. For example I asked Claude to debloat windows. Remove everything possible. From firewalls to notepad to uac to whatever. I also asked Claude to root my pixel phone and install another OS. I also asked to install pihole on a old Mac to serve as a dns and block all ads. All this took maybe an hour of my time.

On becoming anti Google, I blocked Google's ASNs (shortcut to block all their IP addresses) on my router the other day as an experiment. It's a little eye-opening.

Obviously you immediately realise just how often you !g in DDG, use Google Flights, YouTube etc. Ok easy enough to fix

Then of course I can't use Play Store (Aurora didn't work either) so my phone would have eventually become quite obsolete

You can't compile many Go projects because the dependencies are pulled from Google

And if you had ALL of Google's ASNs that would include GCP and that's a whole other level of being cut off

Related:

Google Cloud fraud defense, the next evolution of reCAPTCHA

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48039362

Google Cloud Fraud Defence is just WEI repackaged

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48063199

We told you. You dismissed it, and thought we were just crazy conspiracy theorists. Too brainwashed by the mainstream propaganda about "threats" to see the truth. Now they're even more emboldened by how much they can herd the sheeple, and showing their actual goals even more clearly.

Spread the news, tell everyone you know, before it's too late. I wish we won't have to resort to even more drastic methods in this fight.

"Those who give up freedom for security deserve neither."

Heh

After all the surveillance capitalism abuses over the last 2-3 decades of Web, it's a little late to be pushing back, but... should we start shunning individuals from companies who implement this?

Whether it's from companies that create the tech, or companies that use it.

In the orgy of money, we've had a kind of industry-wide sociopathic convention of individual engineers considering it perfectly OK to further surveillance capitalism.

Can we reverse that?

If someone says we can't, because "everyone does it", are they saying that we're a field of baddies?

Google seems to be putting yet another brick in the garden wall.

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