DNS Bypass Tweets Keep Uptobox Employee’s €197K Frozen in Disney Piracy Case
Sharing instructions on how to bypass court-ordered ISP blocks can be enough to freeze someone’s personal savings in a piracy case, a French appeals court…
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LG to Ban Residential Proxies from Smart TV Apps
The home appliance giant LG Electronics USA said this week it plans to suspend any apps built for its smart TVs that turn one’s television…
Pluralistic: Dealing with dickovers (21 Jul 2026) dickovers
Today’s links Dealing with dickovers: The web is an open platform, and that matters. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Broadcast’s bad…
The Fediverse Beyond Mastodon mini-series is complete. Here’s everything.
Four posts on what else runs on ActivityPub besides Mastodon: microblogging alternatives & forks, photo and video platforms, writing tools, forums, books, music, and more.
Protect Your Privacy with California’s DROP Tool
Are you a California resident? Then we’ve got exciting news for you: there’s a tool just for you that lets you take a single, relatively…
“Stealth Crawlers” Are Not a Threat to the Open Web. Bills Targeting Them Would Be.
There’s a new boogeyman in the battles over AI: so-called “stealth crawlers.” We’ll admit it—the term “stealth crawlers” sounds quite nefarious. In reality, they’re anything…
Big Tech Joins Big Oil in Ruining Summer
In the span of a few short years, companies like Google and OpenAI have gone from promising climate breakthroughs to breaking the climate.
The post Big…
Warning about ‘new Facebook rule’ for photos is long-running hoax
Facebook users posting in July 2026 discussed an alleged Meta initiative involving the company’s use of their personal information, including photos.
Hollywood Wants Vietnam to Slay the Piracy Hydra
Shutting down major piracy operations such as Fmovies and HiAnime means little if successors pop up within weeks. In their submissions to the USTR’s Section…