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Hate to burst your bubble but many of the stories are just that, stories. Vast majority of the onion sites out there are either forums like 4chan or hobbyist sites like the old days of the internet.

Illegal websites do exist but they're rare and hard to find, they also are subject to being taken down. They're nothing like the stories though. In fact majority of the websites that exist when you search for these topics are just bitcoin scams, i.e. a livestream website that asks you to pay $200 in bitcoin to enter, almost certainly a scam because livestreaming over Tor is terrible due to low spead and it breaks the anonymity due to generating tons of unique traffic.

TL;DR Tor is a tool that can be used for privacy on the clearnet it can also be used to host your own onion sites. Dark web stories do have a small element of truth to them but are mostly scary stories to tell in the dark.

I use it, it's a bit slow and you sometimes get lots of captchas but overall I think it's pretty good.

Yeah people when they discuss Neworking and VPNs I've noticed are either illiterate to the existence of https or are deliberately not mentioning it for the purpose of misleading people in some way (in the case of VPN sponsorships it's to get people to buy them).

Reddit also has a .onion as well. Funny considering their pride on Ban evasion detection they should outright block Tor.

I've also found that many ones that are blocked aren't completely blocked, I can access them by using a new circuit (lots of these sites seem to really hate European Exit nodes but anything else has typically worked).

OP it's not difficult at all, you're just doing it wrong. Keep the fingerprint blocking browser but put it on a proxy or VPN network to remove IP address associations, or to just use Tor.

Tor is simpler and has redundancies and features that make tracking incredibly difficult, not impossible (don't use it to commit crimes) but essentially impossible for someone like Reddit. Funnily enough they actually indirectly endorse this since they actually have their own onion site, which is hilarious but also convenient.

As for why they do it that way, I'm not really sure. The idea of "ban evasion" policies seems pretty laughable in my opinion more like they're asking nicely not to do it. It's even more laughable since they handed the bypass tools to us on a silver platter by allowing us to access Reddit without even touching an exit node via their onion site. It's really strange of them.

For the love of god use Tor with tails, or at least just Tor on its own. Even that's probably overkill, but with telemetry monsters like Reddit it doesn't hurt to go above and beyond.

Generally the tracking Reddit does is this:

• Cookies
• Cross site tracking (just like Facebook does)
• Canvas Data and User agent (including browser window size)
• IP address (generally the last thing they target to prevent cross-bans on public WiFi and universities)

Replacing a laptop isn't necessary to get around it, this is a lie spread by moderators (and also admins in some cases) trying to mystify the ban evasion detection system in an effort to curb ban evasion. Using a private browser that limits information is usually sufficient, using Tor is very effective, and using Tor with tails is insanely effective if maybe a tiny bit overkill.

So you don't think people who post hateful stuff about trans people or deliberately spread dangerous or hateful misinformation, or people who spam multiple comments at once should be banned from the platform (or at the very least have their comments actioned by mods)? I'm saying that because Reddit originally intended the Downvotes system to be used to combat those specific types of scenarios, they said it was to control spam and malicious actors. These are things that should be dealt with using disciplinary action i.e. being booted.

If it was an agree/disagree system like many people think it is they wouldn't have added rate limiting to people with low or negative Karma or made it so communities can set karma restrictions. Even so I don't really think it's a good method either, it's almost just a softer less obvious form of shadowban.

Karma sucked ass on Reddit. Essentially people could ban you from participating because you pissed too many people off even though you didn't break any rules.

Karma count is an ass kissing metric, high karma shows that you kiss people's asses for upvotes, low or negative karma shows that people dislike what you say which is absolutely ok. People having different opinions vs going with the group is the difference between a healthy platform and an echo chamber.

By the way Trolls and malicious actors who that system is targeting should be dealt with directly. If someone's posting hateful transphobia instead of downvoting their acount they should just be BANNED from the community or the platform as a whole, keep bad people out of the community.

I never tried using WIndows on my Chromebook before, heard that it really performs badly on Chromebook hardware. You might have better luck with Linux if the error is happening in Windows so it might be worth giving it a shot.

Aren't most Chromebooks out there Intel CPUs and essentially PC hardware? I know there are a few arm ones but it's not most of them.

I would agree that if you're looking to buy a cheap computer an older Thinkpad beats a Chromebook by a long shot. Main benefit to Chromebooks is that if you get lucky you can obtain them for free, mine was permanently loaned to me by my high school (I didn't technically steal it from them, they just never asked for it back). I would've much preferred an old Thinkpad with Coreboot but the Chromebook was free so I can't really complain.

Light bulbs aren't planned obsolescence though, he even said as much in the video, light bulbs more akin to dish-soap which eventually runs out then a device made to be obsolete faster. They are consumable items, which run out or burn out, they are not expensive appliances with long lives, hell he even pointed out that some utilities gave them away for free.

FYI Most Chromebooks are Intel CPU computers, there are a few arm based ones but majority are Intel x86_64.

(prevents unenrolling and prevents sideloading Linux)

Should note that it's not completely foolproof, I know because I bypassed it. It's just not easy and technically you can get in trouble for it. Never got a 'vacation' for it though 😕

Yep I did that to my school Chromebook, they never asked for it back when I graduated and being a broke college student I decided to UEFI flash it and use it as a cheap Linux Computer, still using it now. It's not the fastest laptop but it's certainly good enough. It's really dumb that they enforce software expiration dates on these PCs when they're probably fully capable of running the next version perfectly fine.