I agree with you but that’s the direction everyone else wants to go because places that aren’t heavily censored “become right wing hives,” and therefore the more censorship the better. It happens here on .ml too.

I really just hate the UI and everything about it, plus google. I guess I’m just used to firefox really since I’ve used it iirc since before chrome existed (I remember being invited to gmail it was so new, I’m old lol.) I use mullvad and librewolf, but I could install stock firefox still for i2p.

Frankly I’d prefer it to be firefox based, since chrome is cancer and all. (Also I was under the impression it had to be firefox based, didn’t realize you could use chrome if you’re willing to install it. I don’t even want it ungoogled if possible tbh.)

Basically it just doesn’t seem to fit my workflow, I guess, unless I suppose I want to install chrome. Actually now that I say that, I use librewolf these days, I suppose I could just download regular Firefox and set it up for i2p permanently…hmmmm…maybe I will.

Yeah I can do it it’s just a pain in the ass to do it every install when I’m still mostly using the clearnet and have to change the browser settings back and forth every time I want to do the other thing. It’d be much easier for me if I could just launch “i2p browser” and be off to the races. Who knows, one day it may become imperative to use it if piracy is somehow stricken from the clearnet and then the work required becomes worth it for me, but as it stands now the effort required isn’t worth it for me yet.

I’d personally also like to see Jackett implement i2p tracker support so I could just use qbit’s search with the jackett plugin to search all the trackers I can at once, but idk if that’s even possible.

I’ve tried it a few times, back when Tails had it installed first, and then again a while later. I liked it but I do remember it being a pain to set up and having to have separate browser profiles and a bunch of mess, and qbit didn’t work with it yet so I had to have biglybt too.

Tbh I think it’d skyrocket if they’d release “their own browser” (which of course would just be firefox with i2p set up, like Tor). I seem to remember hearing something about them wanting to do that, too, so maybe?

I also seem to remember something about it being sort of slow but the longer you’re connected the better it gets or something? Which, cool, but I’m on a laptop, my uptime is nonexistent lol.

Some of this may have changed since I tried it last, definitely let me know. I’d love to get into it if I can tbh, I have usenet, slsk, a private tracker or two and all that, but more sources is always better, and last time I tried i2p I did find some shit I’d been looking for, but I just can’t be bothered to do all that mess to get it running just to barely use it, then do it all again every time I reinstall Fedora, I’d prefer a browser bundle.

VPNs for filesharing

I don’t think they actually can do that. There’s functionally no difference between VPNs for “not” pirating and VPNs “for” pirating, they’re all just VPNs.

It’s like saying they’ll ban 4 door sedans for drug buying, they can’t because they’re functionally the same as “4 door sedans for driving to work.” You literally cannot tell, if you see a guy driving an accord down the street, if that guy is on the way to work or on the way to buy coke. Similarly you cannot tell, if you see VPN traffic, what that guy is doing.

I may be wrong, but I don’t think they actually can do that. They’d have to ban all VPNs even for legitimate use, and the corporations that bribe our politicians use them. They could maybe pressure like Nord and Express to report pirates but mullvad will still be there.

Paid research papers - Maybe, and that’d be kinda nice if it happened.

Games - Nah that’ll continue on as it has, some get cracked and some don’t, it is what it is.

Movies - No way. Torrents and Usenet have been here for how long now? They’ll be around for longer than any other methods. Frankly this applies to everything, but especially movies.

Music - Ironically the only form of piracy I almost did watch die. Nobody was doing it really for a few years there because spotify was “just so convenient” but then they thankfully shit the bed and now it’s back in a BIG way.

Books - It’ll be another game of whack-a-mole. Those three go down more will pop up (though I hope those three just stay up!) There’s also IRC to pirate books from, too, and those have been running for like 30yr.

Applications - This is dangerous as hell, you guys have fun I guess. Imma be over here using FOSS.

Android apps - Not the safest either really, but there are packs of them on private torrent trackers that’ll continue for a long while still.

News - Yeah paywalls are a bitch, sometimes you can kill em with UbO, sometimes they’ve been archived for free on archive, this is honestly the hard one here.

Porn - Fat chance. Idk what you’re talking about with the "porn piracy scene being small,” there are so many torrent sites both private and free and of course don’t forget Usenet, and even sites dedicated to leaking camgirl footage. Maybe it just seems small because even pirates can be embarrassed about porn lol, but trust me there’s plenty!

Sure, indexers can be taken down, like RARBG. So you can share torrent files on slsk (I’ve downloaded some rarbg torrents from there after rarbg’s collapse), or another site can pop up and host them either on the clearnet or on i2p. Torrenting may go somewhere technically speaking, but that “somewhere” isn’t “away forever” it’s simply “another domain, at worst i2p.”

А ну чики-брики и в дамки!

Ads work on .onion. I’d never click one, but you can show a banner no problem.

For sure, lucky indeed!

I don’t think the NBA is a government agency, either, so is the government paying the NBA guys?

Maybe they were thinking of the NSA?

You can’t always get back issues at gamestop. Back in my day/area we would give new signups a copy of every back issue we had in stock in addition to the current issue, to rotate out the old and boost subscriptions (since all corporate cared about was your sub and preorder numbers, we needed the boost lol).

The ones you say are not people in an effort to dehumanize them, remember dingus? Scroll up, you have to be able to read if you’re responding to this, you can figure it out I’m sure.

Nice try, you’ve already said the quiet part out loud and endorsed literal murder of people you literally dehumanized outright, to the person who has been saying “murder is a bad thing to do” from the start, a point you clearly took exception to. Just quit while you’re behind.

Ah yes I forgot, of course lmao.

Tankies is very specific, murderous intent is part of it.

Found the Tankie! You can try and deride me for not wanting to kill old women all you wish, but since you do want to kill old women your opinions are invalid. Go choke on rasputin’s poorly preserved penis.

Well according to most users here on lemmy she should have been taken out into the street, lined up against a wall with her family, and summarily shot in the back of the head before she even got a chance, because this would never happen and all landlords are literally Adolf Hitler in an Elon Musk mask.

This has been a presentation of The Tankies Suck Minute™, now back to our regularly scheduled programming:

“Kill her! Landlords should be unit 731’d!”

Norfolk Southern

Naw Nongshim and Samyang are different companies. Samyang is actually the first instant ramen company in SK, while Nongshim is the largest instant noodles company in SK. Completely different ramens too, Nongshim’s is powder/veg packet, Samyang’s is a red ass hot sauce packet (well, for their flagship, they have more flavors). And Samyang is much hotter, but they’re both good!

I like good instant noodles…