I do agree most cryptocurrencies are scammy, or traded speculatively. It’s a free country, so one can do whatever they want to with their own money, but I personally think they’re like greedy gamblers.
I’m a Monero user, not a trader, not an investor. I have Monero because I use it. I support it because I’m a privacy advocate. I’ve never even once used a CEX, totally unrelated to investment. Your points may be valid for those investor people, though.
Memes are inside jokes, not advertising nor promoting anything targeting outsiders. If you don’t like whatever, feel free to not see it, ignore it, or just block it, because perhaps like many other people, you don’t think you need privacy, you’re not really interested in privacy… and so, understandably, for you, this project is looking like just another shitcoin or scam. Neko ni koban, buta ni shinju :)
“will only sell its long-distance savings tickets” so you can still buy non-saving (full price) tickets? A “mobile phone number or e-mail address” - how about using TutaNota, signing up anonymously? Or better yet, how about buying your ticket though proxysto.re (unrealistic?). Not too surprising considering airplane tickets (and pobably better than the TSA theater) , but this feels like another step to mass surveillance. (And Germany is supposed to be an anonymity friendly country: no to Client Side Scanning, the Wir speichern nicht movement, etc.)
Credit card fees will rise […] experts have advised to make everyday purchases with debit cards, Giro / EC cards or cash in Germany
Cash is good, but maybe experts don’t know there is another better option…?
Money is bad—it is used for a lot of bad things like trading drugs or hiring killers…? Money is the root cause of mugging, scams, exploitation, killing, corruption…?
Money is good—it can be used to help people…?
Perhaps money is not good nor bad; a person who uses it may be ethical or unethical. Please do not confuse pure mathematics or technology (such as public key cryptography) with its users/abusers.
Since LibreWolf is libre software, it’s likely that a user has freedom to tweak this maybe via about:config. You just need to ask this directly in the LibreWolf community.
I think I know what you’re talking about, though. Perhaps CSS @font-face is forbidden, because many sites use Google fonts, which allows them to track you.
If Tor Browser is acceptable, give it a try. While TB too has very strict font restrictions to avoid finger-printing (so that a remote site may not know which fonts your system already has), web fonts are allowed by default. It’s relatively harder to distinguish/track individual Tor users, since TB hides your real IP & by default cookies are per session only.
LibreWolf shows your real IP, so it’s understandable and reasonable that it wants to be more careful about fonts. Still a user should be given freedom to do whatever, at their own risk. That’s what free software is all about, after all. Just a thought…
The current use cases are for Brazilian banking sites. Although free (libre) software users don’t like to be remotely monitored their browsing real-time, the technology itself can be helpful if used right.
The context is, even though Firefox is getting more and more annoying with telemetry, phoning home, etc. (imho the last good version was v52 ESR), it is still much better than Google. So use Firefox, if you don’t like other options.
Mozilla is financially supported by Google, and perhaps they can’t continue their projects without Google, so it’s kind of inevitable that sometimes they have to support that giant. Nevertheless, they still try not to be evil, explicitly against WEI.
Please do support Firefox and/or its forks (LibreWolf, Tor Browser, …). Stop cooperating with Google. They can do evil things because of their monopoly power. We can make Google less powerful, if we refuse to use their products, if we escape from their privacy-invading services.
Yup, the US. Actually, no anti-cryptography anywhere, please. Didn’t we already do this like 20 years ago? As in, the “Cryptography is a weapon, which you can’t freely export, so you can’t download Netscape from the US” nonsense.
It’s slightly humiliating that, unlike the Tor Project, the EFF does not accept Monero donations while they do accept Zcash for some reason. BTC, ETH are of course accepted.
In case someone does Monero-to-other-coin at Trocador for whatever reason, consider using the affiliate link on the front page https://monero.town/ which is supposed to help Monero.town a bit (your rate shouldn’t change at all).
Just an old cliché :) Monero, je te choisis !
门罗币 就决定是你了！ ¡Monero, te elijo a ti!
2023-10-24 Testing https://www.imagebam.com/view/MEPORDX using this old post; not sure if direct links to images are okay with them. They seem to be Tor-friendly and one can upload images without registration, so if it works, it may be good to save server space/bandwidth of monero.town.
Not sure how these pages are up-to-date and reliable; there's some info that might be helpful in some situations:
https://simplifiedprivacy.com/best-temporary-burner-sms-verification-services/
What Happens if an Instance Disappears?
I may be wrong, but one potential problem in such a case might be that (not you'd totally lose your data but on the contrary) you won't be able to delete your posts etc. even if you want to delete them, since its copy is "mirrored" by many other instances. Not sure though.
That should be easy if you do some script-fu, etc. Perhaps not so easy on Windows, though.
I understand that you may feel depressed, or even annoyed, for example when told, “Solving the problem foo is trivial if you use bar” when bar is not trivial nor realistic for you (or so you believe). For example, 2^149^−1 is easy to factor if you use elliptic curves, but studying elliptic curves may feel daunting (though it’s not so hard as you might think).
I do understand how you may feel in such a situation. I may be sometimes in a similar situation too.
Obviously, though, not trying to read about the solution bar wouldn’t solve the original problem foo. Not learning ECM doesn’t enable you to factor 2^149^−1 for example. Not trying to listen to about the L-word wouldn’t fix the annoyance of Windows. Annoyance itself may be harmless but everyone knows Windows is privacy-invasive and vulnerable to malware, viruses, keyloggers, etc. So staying too long there, refusing to learn some solution, something really bad might happen to you eventually. Honestly, something like that did happen to ourselves recently. Our community lost a lot of money, apparently stolen by attacker(s)—exactly what happened is still unknown, but the victimized wallet was on Ubuntu connected to Windows 10 via SSH.
You don’t need to ditch Windows. I respect your freedom to use non-free software. In fact, many L-word systems do include non-free blobs too!
That being said, may I suggest that you try different OS(es) just for 10 minutes, booted from a USB stick, when you have time, to see what it’s like. You might be surprised because it just works, actually more intuitive, you can use it easily, not to mention you’re not forced to see ads. Or no invasive telemetry. Feel free to ignore this suggestion if you really love Windows, thinking it’s the best OS ever. I respect freedom of thought!