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The biggest threat to Google's ad business isn't Meta or Apple. It's a man with a text editor who doesn't even accept donations 🤯 Meet Raymond Hill. > Nobody knows his real face. > Nobody knows his background. > Goes by "gorhill" online. That's it. > In 2014 quietly built an ad blocker. Alone. > No team. No funding. No company. Just code. > Called it uBlock Origin. > Free. Open source. No strings attached. > Every other ad blocker was taking money from advertisers. > Letting "acceptable ads" through for a fee. > He refused. Completely. 💀 > People tried to donate. He said no. > Companies tried to buy him out. He said no. > Brave offered to bring him on. He said no. > Said accepting money in any form could compromise him. > So he just... kept building. For free. For years. > Grew to 40 million users across Chrome and Firefox. > Became the most popular Firefox extension in history. 🚀 > Then Google came for him. > Manifest V3 — a Chrome update that quietly gutted ad blockers. > Every major ad blocker bent the knee and adapted. > He refused. Said the new system was fundamentally inferior. > Google removed uBlock Origin from Chrome. Entirely. > He didn't beg. Didn't negotiate. Didn't compromise. > Just told everyone switch to Firefox. > Mozilla then made a mistake reviewing his extension. > Disabled it over false claims. > He publicly proved every claim wrong. Line by line. > Then pulled the extension himself. On his own terms. > Fought Google. Fought Mozilla. Both times alone. > Still maintains the project today. Still unpaid. > Still refuses every dollar sent his way. > Said "It stopped being a hobby when it felt like a tedious job. So I made it mine again." > No money. No team. No name. Just took on trillion-dollar Google and made them blink The trillion-dollar ad empire is genuinely scared of one developer with a text editor Absolute Legend 🗿 🔥

📵Social media bans are NOT working to keep children safe online around the world This is what's really happening 🧵

⚠️ WARNING: FACIAL SCANNING MANDATORY IN ALL EU VEHICLES They say it is just "for your safety" (just like age verification is just to "keep the kids safe online") but did you know as of July 7, 2024, all newly registered cars in the EU must be fitted with specific driver-monitoring systems. By 2026 and 2027, this will apply to every single new vehicle sold on the European market (heavy trucks). If you buy a new car it will have a camera looking at your face, but it is (FOR NOW) legally barred from "recognising" you or saving that video. It is there to beep at you if you fall asleep or look at your phone. Except it isn't... as it looks like they can use this data in court against you (see below). The EU's General Safety Regulation (GSR2) mandates two specific systems: DDAW (Driver Drowsiness and Attention Warning): Monitors your "fatigue level" by analysing how you steer or by using cameras to watch for yawning and long eye-closures. ADDW (Advanced Driver Distraction Warning): This is the more "advanced" part for 2026/2027. It uses cameras to track your gaze. If you look away from the road (at a phone or a passenger) for more than 6 seconds (at low speeds) or 3.5 seconds (at high speeds), the car alerts you (who will it alert in the future though? What legal punishment will you be subjected to? What penalties will you recieve? Will you be able to even start your vehicle if you break rules? EU law (GDPR) supposedly governs how these "face-scanning" cameras work to ensure they don't become surveillance tools but do we REALLY believe we are not headed into a centralised system of global governance and mass surveillance (digital ID for "your convenience" is being rolled out across many countries as is facial recognition tech - it is in your supermarkets at the self service checkouts for example). They claim that laws already in place (laws can be changed in the future...remember "emergency legislation" that restricted your freedom of movement?) forbids using this technology for biometric identification (facial recognition). The car "sees" a human face to track eye movement, but it is not allowed to "know" who you are (supposedly). It is claimed a closed-loop System means your data must stay inside the car (but can be used in court remember!). The camera’s "vision" is processed in real-time by a local chip and then "immediately overwritten" (supposedly). EU cars are "generally" prohibited from sending your video or "distraction logs" to the cloud, manufacturers, or insurance companies (supposedly). The EU does not CURRENTLY mandate a "breathalyzer" or "kill switch for everyone" (kill switch will knock off your car and prevent you starting or driving it). Instead, they mandate that all new cars must have a standardised interface that makes it easy for authorities to install an alcohol interlock device. So yes, authorities CAN interfere with your vehicle and movements. Since July 2024, all new EU cars must also have an Event Data Recorder (a black box recorder). Why? If your data is yours and isn't going to be shared? They say this is purely for recording technical data (speed, braking, steering) in the seconds before a crash. This can and will be used as evidence against you. They claim these systems are anonymous and cannot be used to identify the driver or owner; its "only legal purpose" is to help investigators understand why an accident happened (will this always be the case though?) Now if you have read all of and think it is necessary then you are welcoming a lockstep loss of your privacy and rights. You are accepting being treated as a criminal before you ever have even committed a crime. You are accepting pre-emtive evidence gathering before you have ever committed a crime, and remember a crime could be anything in their eyes. They make the rules, and those who swap liberty for "security" and a surveillance state [by accepting that] will regret it. But by then it will be too late. By Susanne Delaney

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🚨🇪🇺 BREAKING: The European Commission just told all 27 member states to hurry up with rolling out online age verification, demanding deployment before the end of 2026. Asked today how the system stops anyone bypassing it with a VPN from outside the EU, Vice-President Virkkunen said only that it is "an important part of the next steps."

“Age verification” is being sold as protection. When in reality, it requires your ID to access the internet and opens the door to widespread surveillance. What do you think age verification should be re-branded as?

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The European Commission offered Elon Musk and 𝕏 an illegal secret deal: quietly censor speech, and we won’t fine you While the other platforms caved in and took the deal, Elon Musk refused outright The retaliation was immediate. Brussels and EU bureaucrats have been relentlessly attacking 𝕏: • Endless investigations & public threats • Office raids in Paris • Unnecessary summons • A massive €120M fine under the "DSA".......a made-up regulation meant to extort anyone who refuses to do exactly what the EU wants Instead of bending the knee, Elon chose to fight. He stood up for the people when no one else would Because of that, Europeans can still speak freely on 𝕏 today without fear of suppression

🚨🇪🇺The EU just killed online anonymity - for good. Ursula von der Leyen has rolled out a "European age verification app" that will force social media users to identify themselves with government-issued ID. This has nothing to do with protecting kids - it’s about control. Your data, your identity, all within reach of EU authorities. This is a massive escalation, pushing Europe closer to open repression, where people are already being punished for what they say and think. I can only say one thing - Thank you God that Serbia isn't part of the EU!

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Apple's iOS 26.4 forced kid mode on every UK user who can't verify their age with a credit card or photo driving license. Millions of adults don't have either. Their phone now filters their web browsing and scans their messages until they prove they're an adult. Which they can't...

My iPhone just updated itself. I keep turning this off then get endless messages to update it and an irritating red circle on the screen. Now this has appeared. Since when is it law to prove your age to use your own phone???? Way beyond your remit now @GOVUK

If you care about privacy and freedom you NEED to switch to an unlocked android and install a custom ROM like @GrapheneOS before you run out of time to do so. All our western governments are going full totalitarian and authoritarian. You also need to at a bare minimum have an alternative computer\laptop or dual boot (but preferably Linux only) with an OS like Tails or other distros that refuse to comply with the direction all our governments are going. If you don't you will soon be faced with the reality that your government has total control, total surveillance and total censorship over you. When I say time is running out I mean it. PLEASE take the time while you still have the means.

‼️ BREAKING: Reddit's CEO announced he is forcing human verification on the platform. He will force users to verify through biometrics on their device, a third party, or government ID. Every single option compromises your anonymity. On a platform built on anonymity.

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