Depends on the game. In mine, that would work for matches you organize with friends, but wouldn’t work with continuous public matches. Bot hosters would find the passwords and still flood the rooms. However, the safe place during the bot crisis were indeed community servers! I don’t know what exactly they did.

Yeah, I honestly like manually kicking cheaters! However, it is not enough on its own. It doesn’t help when BOTS join the game in hordes and outnumber the human players enough to make themselves impossible to kick…

That is, I would prefer even bots to a kernel-level resteictive anticheat.

I just had a better experience as a normie who doesn’t see these formats. All I see is that Matrix’s Synapse is too heavy to run on my cheap weak VPS, Conduit is not as feature-complete (most importantly - lacks old media and message deletion, which means the only way to free up my small disk space would be a reinstall), and encryption renders messages unreadable from time to time (OMEMO does not break like this).

Ah. I heard that in some cases (maybe earlier on?) they just didn’t deliver the messages without erroring out. Anyway, I wouldn’t be able to use it either because a) not all carriers have it (where I am, only one does) and b) apparently not all manufacturers have it either, especially if we’re talking about cheap Chinese ones which are the majority.

Not only that, but there were reports that even Google’s implementation was stealthily turned off on custom ROMs or rooted phones :/

Or XMPP - it’s more accessible to host.

Most people here use those because it’s easier than torrenting.

When Youtube got slowed in Russia, pretty much every content creator stated they’re not going anywhere from Youtube, and people seemed really set on continuing to use the service. Also Russian Tiktok still is alive, even though the Bytedance disabled it quite a while aho. So I really wonder if there would be a similar situation on Tiktok in India or US.

Is using Tiktok with a VPN or as a modded APK popular? I’ve seen that in my country.

I wouldn’t be so hopeless. If this is the only available choice - they’d find a way or will ask their more savvy friends. Like, here even a couple years ago it was unthinkable that every second person would learn to circumvent censorship - yet here we are. Sometimes life forces you to.

Selfhosted git on .onion or .i2p.

It usually works great for me (and when it doesn’t - I help), but it obviously doesn’t work on downloads so I still have to skip some ads manually.

Not just sucks, but is limited. Like, you can’t even register there! To use Signal without a smartphone, you’d need workarounds that are unfriendly to an average person! All while a computer is far easier to make private than a phone.

I’ve used it because it actually allowed me to register, while the registration in the official app broke (my best guess is due to lack of Google services, because that’s the popup the app got stuck on). And if I knew about it earlier, I could’ve used it to register in an Android VM and then tie a desktop client - because unlike the original, it did not force you to use your camera, you could just use a link. Another important quality for me is the ability to use arbitrary Socks rather than Signal’s own - when every protocol has a chance to be blocked, flexibility is important, and having a standalone proxy may be more convenient than a whole-device VPN (that you’d have to keep on all the time to receive notifications).

From what I understand, in my country OpenVPN and Wireguard work fine within the borders, but the protocols are blocked to foreign servers.

Brought to you by Kape Technologies lobby.

How is it privacy if it locks you into using an OS that reports on you?

I am saying this because I saw this happen. Whenever I accidentally peek into a random’s phone on a bus, chances are the homescreen has a VPN app. The blocked social media did have a bit of a decline, but remain very popular, especially Youtube, which was likely the biggest drive for people to bypass the blocks. The lack of credit is more about them often choosing shady VPN services.

I meant because of sanctions they don’t receive anything from Youtube itself. Yet they go on.

I wonder if Tiktok would respond by making their mobile webapp better in this case.

By the way, if the traffic is throttled and not outright blocked - that would mean things like GoodbyeDPI would be likely possible instead of VPNs!