What the actual fkuc is wrong with part time website cowboys (at least here in the UK anyway)? I use Proton VPN on all my stuff, either directly installed or on my router. Moreso recently I'm getting message pages when trying to get to websites telling me that I'm blocked or don't have the correct privilege to view their shitty page. Recently, I got one with a 404 error not because the page could not be found but because I wasn't allowed to see it because the site couldn't track me - good to know really. Last week it was the RSPB, yesterday it was a couple of tyre fitting companies, today a local electrician. More and more are insisting that there are essential cookies, you know, the ones where they sell your data to their 'partners', partners my backside. When will they realise that with all these restrictions, in place stopping or restricting people viewing their site or quite simply stealing our data, the hits to their sites will be reduced and their sales drop. At least I hope they do. It's not much different with ad blocking. I have been presented with screens telling me that the person's site relies in showing me adverts for crap that I don't want, don't need to see and will certainly never buy so I have to turn my ad blocker off to see the part I do want to get to. Look, it's your fkucing website, it's there advertising what you do, in its own right it will increase sales on its own, if you load it with adverts for other sites, no one is going to bother with your stuff. THATS WHY WE HAVE VPNs AND AD BLOCKERS! #AdBlocking #VPN #DataTheftByCookies

Today is a good day to have a good day. And nae wee bassard is gonna spoil that. Okay?

Wlee done all those forcing this (un) AI on us and allowing it to fkuc up all search engines. You have broken the internet. That's it. That's the toot.

Is anyone else concerned that Meta have forced an install if their AI right above the start new chat button in WhatsApp and a search bar above existing chats? Also, it can't be disabled or uninstalled, at least not in the UK anyway. I really don't like using WhatsApp but some of the 'you're paranoid' types insist on both it and face ache not that I use the latter at all. Some are begrudgingly switching to signal asking if it's really that secure after recent war plans were made public. I just remind them not to invite international journalists or politicians to their chat groups, they don't always get that and need it explained unfortunately. Is it me? Am I overly worried?