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Cake day: October 30th, 2023

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  • What I mean by “on your computer” is not that it originates on your computer, but that some form of it exists there–namely this is going to be images, text, links, etc that the ad company hosts and a website will normally download temporarily along with the rest of the site’s content. Once your computer has that site’s information you can do anything you want with it. Importantly what exists on your computer is a local copy of what the ad servers host. If you decide to color ads blue on your computer that only affects your copy. The original ad, and everyone else’s copies remain intact.


  • To put it another way:

    • If you want to see something it has to be clear (unencrypted)
    • If you want to see something on your computer it has to be on your computer
    • You can control your own computer

    Therefore, any media that is viewed on your computer is clear, on your computer, in a realm that you control.

    This is also why ad blockers work. You can send me ads, or requests to fetch ads and my computer just ignores them.

    Companies will never be able to stop this, cause at some point you can always just intercept the data feed at a hardware level and reconstruct the stream.









  • I pulled up to a crossroad, stopped at the stop sign, and waited for the 2 vehicles on the main road to pass. Another car pulled up across from me and came to a complete stop at their stop sign, they waited for a moment, then started to go. They looked again, saw the other vehicles coming, stopped (not yet in the main road), then started to proceed again. They stopped again (this time in the main road). They started to go again and got hit by the first vehicle on the main road. The next vehicle on the main road was an ambulance who saw the whole thing and stopped.

    Honestly not sure why you would stop at a sign, see traffic coming then go and stop multiple times if you weren’t on something or trying for some fraud.