Unfortunately I think paying for an anonymizing service of some kind is required. It’s easier to afford if you just go all in and drop all of your paid streaming services. But that can be difficult to get everyone in the household to agree on.
Seedbox services are a little more money, but for around $30/month you get a computer located in a country which doesn’t care about data piracy. It downloads torrents for you and you can just log in later and download the files to your home machine.
I hope this is ok to ask, but: suppose this gets popular enough that monied interests will want to try various influence ops here as they have done elsewhere. Is there enough metadata available that spammy or suspicious activity can be detected and guarded against?
I keep thinking back to posts on Reddit by some guy who was convinced the lack of posting and commenting anonymity would be horrible for people. Horrible for spammers and influence ops, I assumed, but without actually understanding in what way.
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