I cover mine against my own mistake - just in case I accidentally turn on (or leave on) a camera during some call.

Not me, but my mother has beef with air conditioners. When I was little, I got sick (to the point of losing consciousness) due to a dirty AC in a hotel, so now she (maybe rightfully) assumes that a random given AC in a public place is filthy. We don’t have one at home either - mostly because in this climate we’d only need it for a short time each year, but also because mom thinks it’d be easy to not take care of it properly and let enough filth accumulate.

Or a Raspberry Pi. Is more expensive ($60 for my Pi 3), but I think it was worth it due to versatility and privacy. Stock Android TVs would be uncomfortable as they spy on you.

To have a massive wall of video, you need to have a home spacious enough for a whole spare wall first! I haven’t seen a <1m screen that would fit in the kitchen corner my TV occupies on an arm - I don’t even think a projector would work with a screen this relatively small. And where would the projector itself go if opposite of that corner is the couch/bed? Sit on my lap?

I’ve heard of them in the context of screwing over people who want an easy income: they’re promised some pennies for their connection being used, then find themselves banned from Netflix and Spotify for “being on a VPN”.

Also, isn’t this where scrapers come from?

Yeah, I get it (barring the fact that literal Facebook is not even accessible from my IP lol). But whether this is useful, depends on who the attacker is. If we’re talking about, say, a data broker - yeah. But would Jake from accounting have such “IP-account” logs?

Good luck, my IP consistently points to an entirely another city.

I don’t think they would at least because the share of people who can use it is not that large. Where I am, only one carrier out of the big four has it, and only Samsung phones support it (Google as well, but they’re not officially sold so not quite as popular).

A blurred house in a row of unblurred ones would attract more attention.

Yeah, that is a very valid option! I don’t like it when people not into collecting do it, though. Because it makes zero logical sense for a digital copy to be tied to a physical thing, unless you like the sentimental value of said physical thing as well.

I am not saying church isn’t far from God. I am saying that the whole concept of using AI for this is pretty offensive by itself.

Now that’s blasphemy.

You don’t have to upgrade the TV itself. If the TV cannot handle the new format on its own, external box is enough.

Most of what I download are webrips, though.

Now that’s the Technology community I like.

You can trust your own relatives or friends though - as long as you encrypt the drive you give them. Doesn’t have to be a service.

From what I’ve heard, it depends on Google services, including for payment.

I do that. Every game I buy on Steam corresponds to a DRMless copy.

I don’t like that a paid plan gives worse experience than free tools. For example, the downloads not being files you can store indefinitely and play by anything. Or not all ads being guaranteed to be blocked.

Edit: it would not fit my usecases entirely. First - I listen to a lot of Youtube videos as podcasts, so the audio downloads have to be in my podcast app together with downloads from my RSS feeds, so app-locked ones would be useless. And second - those would be useless for archival. Something increasingly necessary given how Youtube has already deleted some of my favorite videos.

Ew, it is still on by default :( Unless you set your browser to save site data for this site, you would still see the AI :( Fortunately, the Javascriptless version has no such pest.