Something strange happened in the last decade, wherever one has 300 emotional support tabs and browsers had to create really elaborate tab groups and memory management for juggling stacks upon stacks of tabs.
I don't think anyone actually uses bookmarks anymore, except you, me, about any 3000 misc nerds.
Can I ask what has you subscribing toVPN's year round? I have three use cases for my subscription
I end up subscribed to Mullvad for maybe 5 months a year. I still end up paying less than a NordVPN subscription, I feel good about supporting Mullvad's mission (like the ongoing development of their own browser).
I also love that I can share my subscription with other users if I needed to, just by giving them current account ID number. In this way, it would be practical to give up to five people access while still protecting all of my devices since I throw the VPN on my travel router.
I will schill for a very short list of companies, all day long, and Mullvad would be on that list twice simply because they don't trick me into an endless subscription of any sort while all the others get committed income out of me annually.
Exception when gargling orange.
I didn't even know that they claim Chrome extensions will work, I simply use the Firefox extensions in Waterfox.
My browsing style is antiquated, my ADHD will only afford me about eight tabs per browser window and I usually have about four of those going at a time.
I aggressively kill tabs to save my own mental memory more than the machine's memory.
It's like $6.50USD /month, 2x the cost of mainstream vpn's.
It's valuable for me so I'm happy to pay and support them, but I'm mostly only need them while traveling.
For want of $100 /year Apple developer subscription , the libewolf team can't sign binaries for Silicon M series Macs.
I spent an hour and a half trying to get librewolf to work, and just gave up for Waterfox instead.
On my laptop I run Firefox for some things, Watefox for others, and fall back to Chrome only as absolutely necessary when Gecko can't get me there.
I'm sorry, first of all, for the egregious typos in my last remark. I won't be fixing them or future typos, lol.
Second, vaccines work by every person in a network being a less-weak node with less attack surface than if the whole network is without. Every person that armors up is protecting the whole system, just a little bit, until the network is complete with less attack surface.
Privacy restrictions, antivirus, healthy infosec, follow similar principals as masks and shots in arms, and you have to start studying how the threats respond to shifting attack surface.
At the point the effort to execute on the securing behavior is lowered, adoption improves, but at the point it conflicts with competing values you have to start marketing to people to do the right thing. Selling them on collective interest and on self interest. It's ironic.
How you do ANY of this, well, I can only speculate. I come from a backwards country where 1/3 of our population successfully installed a national health director that admits to not believing in germ theory, and I half expect civilian encryption to be outlawed in the next 18 months.
You'd better believe marketing execs and specialists in branding will divide and conquer market segments of apathetic typical people.
Addicts in recover programs can call the general population of non-addicts 'normies'; people that have been marginalized for neurodivergent thinking often call the mainstream population of neurotypicals 'normies' etc.
Gatekeeping by commonly accepted language across diverse circles only serves for your own purity testing instead of focusing on the core issue of how to sell people on exercising their own basic self-interest.
Sounds like something normies would say. 🤣
Hard disagree.
You're basically studying viral pathology and immunology at that point. Remember how restaurant little can be for making and for vaccinations in American culture?
On top of it taking the slightest effort ... We basically have to settle the solutions and then invite or incentivize them into it, which is hard when you're against disinformation networks with better fundling.
Not to say it's hopeless. Just that the incentives in a highly individualized society captured under surveillance capitalism are misaligned.
Full-fat VPS and roll-your-own proxy solutions are wonderful! Can you recommend a vps service that gives you the global access and a workspace for you to build your tools for your toolkit?
Most I've priced were either more than $6usd /month or were very, very over-provisioned, but I'm interested in learning!