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userbinatoryesterday at 10:50 PM2 repliesview on HN

The idiotic "stealing" argument again? At least use "piracy" if you want to be correct...

The moment you openly publish information on the Internet, you have already given consent. There are other solutions to bandwidth usage.

User-agent discrimination should be illegal. All it does is further the control that Big Tech has, and help authoritarian governments with their control too.


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pdpiyesterday at 10:57 PM

As with anything IP-related, the data is licensed under whatever terms you choose to impose. That’s the extent of the consent you’ve provided.

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matheusmoreiratoday at 12:47 AM

> User-agent discrimination should be illegal.

Couldn't agree more. Nonsense like remote attestation too. If this discrimination persists, it will lead to the destruction of what little computing freedom we still have.