Kami

Definitely, they can’t block everyone’s IP, but the ones you can find easily are the most used and get blocked (for now). A local instance will surely work, but then again, if you are the only user it’s not different from using NewPipe.

Libretube is the most private one, if you use it through the Piped proxy. However many public Piped instances are actively being blocked by Google at the moment and the workarounds that worked for me make LibreTube the same as using NewPipe, so I switched to the latter since I also use a VPN and I’m not too concerned about Google seeing my IP and I also use it only for music on mobile and watch stuff from desktop, from another VPN server, just to spread out my activity.

A real sociale life, plus the help of a psychologist, will yeld better results. The second will be useful not only to improve your social life, but also to help with what seems a paranoid approach to this matter.

I have already explained you that you do not need anonymity to protect your privacy and that it’s pretty easy to blend with the crowd so that your online activity becomes pretty useless to anyone, even though it could still potentially be traced back to you.

A (paid) VPN allows you to use stuff like discord without compromising your privacy, as long as you don’t share personal informations. Mullvad, for example, lets you even pay with cash.

There are private mail services, paid ones, from companies that value their customers’ privacy. I think a couple of them that I’ve checked accept cash payments too.

These are just a couple examples of services for using the internet without compromising your privacy. There are tons of sources to research deeper in the topic and decide what you need to achieve your goal.

There’s also nothing wrong in being the “weird” one in your circle that doesn’t use WhatsApp, or that doesn’t save contacts in the phone. In my opinion, at least.

Remember you don’t need complete anonimity to protect your privacy, you just need to blend with the crowd and NOT give away personal sensitive data like you are doing with questionable services like chatGPT.

Mate, I don’t know why you feel the need to argue about this, I guess this is just your thing so I’ll play along.

If you think “talking” to chatGPT about your problems is something healthy, think again. Quitting such a bad habit and talking to real people addresses both the loneliness problem and the privacy problem.

Also if you think that suggesting someone to look for professional help is like telling them to “walk it off” I would suggest you to get off the internet for today because you have clearly exceeded the recommended daily dose.

He said he’s “trauma-dumping on chatGPT” and that he can’t stop. I literally cannot think of anything more helpful than what I wrote.

Find more friends IRL or get professional help. EDIT: or both.

Lame rhetoric.

Usual cringe use of AI to support fascists.

Poor kids…

MicroG is not an alternative store, it’s an alternative to Play Services.

I love that Proton bots/fanboys always get pretty nervous when someone just points out the facts 🤣

Criminals belong to jail, period.

Self harm then? I think it’s not only fine but also heroic.

Maintaining order in this context would mean letting some people harm other people’s privacy though.

Where is the harm?

Filthy fascists.

Some alternatives here https://github.com/pluja/awesome-privacy#notes-and-tasks

Crypt.ee maybe? EDIT: sorry, not a Notion alternative as you asked

I agree, but I must say that with the Archinstall script it’s a breeze nowadays.