(Been a fan for a while btw, and I'm one of the organizers for Flock-related efforts here in Eugene, Oregon, where we've been able to get them shut off. Your recent videos have been popular here.)

All these Silicon Valley tech bros want to be Steve Jobs sooo badly, but not a single one of them can see around their own ego enough to understand what made another person tick.

It's all so inauthentic and cargo-culty.

Fortunately, I recently got local web archiving working to my satisfaction, so this is only a minor nuisance.

The next step in this game will be to periodically restart my fiber connection to get new DHCP leases, browse more from coffee shops, and wreck Google for as many other people as possible.

Pretty sure the actual cause is that I'm running adnauseam.io

Shame on you.

Oops, forgot link: www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarde...

(That's not to say you're doing anything wrong, and all of the other answers are correct for other subsets of your audience too.)

Aside from the other answers here, there are a lot of people that are immensely frustrated with all of the challenges facing them as society steers towards the Rent Economy, and seeing a lot of content for stuff that's out of reach for those people just adds to their frustration.

When I've described the risks of these services to people, it's usually been in the form of possible abuses of data. The current political *and* corporate landscapes have only made those risk scenarios more likely.

Deleting helps safeguard you, your family, and your descendants.

The only permissible forms of protest are the ineffective ones.

This is excellent. See also Nepenthes: zadzmo.org/code/nepenth... if you want to run something similar without routing all your traffic through Cloudflare. (I am in the process of rolling this out for all hosted sites on my network.)

Gotta agree with you here, the Democratic Party has been infuriating in this regard, and with their continued fantasy that there's such a thing as an "undecided voter" in the middle that they need to try to appeal to.

Pretty sure the only indecision among voters is whether they'll bother each time.

Since I haven't seen it mentioned in the comments here yet, what you and others are describing is called the Overton Window: theweek.com/102517/the-o...

Republicans have been dragging the American Overton Window rightward for decades.

Yeah, there's the C$43 million that they (likely) scammed: futurism.com/tesla-sales-...

Sure is a popular stock for bagholders though.

This is a lie he's told every year for the last several years. Examples:

spaceflightnow.com/2016/04/27/s...

www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-sp...

People fall for it every time because we don't have a cultural long-term memory anymore.