Wait wait wait.

There’s no shitty anticheat in wow? I guess I took it for granted these days…

Correct.

I’m not brave even when they do not fly.

Almost.

Almost all permaban are technically very long temporary ban.

People are products of their times.

You hear this a lot, but then you and look at “the times” and find arguments in favor of cultural integration dating back thousand of years.

It is true that people are the products of their time, but those times are not as radically distant moral wise as it is usually assumed.

Tor inside a VPN is fine. Some argue it will make you stand out in comparison with other users of your VPN but that’s only a problem if they retain data, and if they do you really wish you’d have used tor…

That’s a thing? I thought long haired people did that to somehow manage the mess and delay the drying…

I’m not sure why I picked up Yakuza0 but I was so suprised by what I got in my hand I made a goal of mine to play the whole lot.

The presentation of the character of Majima in the casino is so good I ended up bringing it up in conversations with non gaming dates and they still texted me back in the following days.

Let me stop you at “I’m no security expert”.

That’s a lot of time to mull over not being stoned to death.

I watch way too much YouTube, but it sounds like you are describing a microblogging platform…

I just follow people that provides me quality, I’ve never experienced any upload war.

I used to be, still am. 1080p 73 fps.

Our equivalent is nuclear radiations.

Not what I meant: https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/wiki/3.3-Overrides-[To-RFP-or-Not]#-fingerprinting

"If you do nothing on desktop, you are already uniquely identifiable - screen, window and font metrics alone are probably enough - add timezone name, preferred languages, and several dozen other metrics and it is game over. Here is a link to the results of a study done in 2016 showing a 99.24% unique hit rate (and that is excluding IP addresses).

Changing a few prefs from default is not going to make you “more unique” - there is no such thing."

Basically making yourself less unique is impossible so there’s no sensible tradeoff to be made (other than in the context of Tor and Mullvad Browser).

You see, as a nuclear physicist…

I see no problematic implication in this and I’m sure whoever pitched this shared a similar mindset with myself.

Am I wrong to assume trying to blend in is a worse and contradictory strategy than trying to actively protect yourself from tracking?

If you want to not be unique, use default setting chrome without adblock. Your browser will look just like anybody else’s, but they will literally know who you are.

On the opposite side of the spectrum, you lock everything down and spike as a very special browser and… that’s all they know.

At the end of the day of course the solution to forming the most accurate opinion of Stalin is to study Stalin.

I’ll point though that apparently my stance has some merit since Stalin himself with his “What was I to do?” is at the very least considering his situation as problematic.

As a last contribution to the discussion, which I’ve been glad to take part of and that I’m grateful you invested time and effort in, even in recent time we have instances of head of states that ultimately grow exhausted with their role and honestly desire to step down. That’s not always possible, especially when so much of the state is directly tied to their person (kings, for example), and does not prove they previously chased, and/or held, that position with selfless disposition.

Thanks again for the thoughtful and well sourced contribution.

That’s only fair.