SapphironZA

My wife's opinion is that most of the pressure comes from other women and old men.

Agree, but how do you address the current problem, now that these people exist. Clearly the current strategy and these camps are just making it worse and if you release them, you are planting seeds of terrorism for a generation to come.

We should do all we can in society to prevent people from going to prison, but you can't just release prisoners without rehabilitation.

How do you deprogram members of a cult at this scale?

Maybe an island penal colony in the Pacific is preferable to perpetual internment camps?

I think this strategy makes sense, if you do an overall push to have all software sources verified. Knowing users, a simple warning that an app is unverified rarely affects their behaviour. You need to hide the app, to encourage app developers to get verified for it to work. Users ideally should be able to trust by default, because we can't trust them to know any better.

Exactly. Linux mint is one of the few distros that really follow through that their users may not be proficient.

It's why it's my business distro of choice.

It's mainly in the USA it seems. In South Africa, we have had internet banking since 1995. So businesses stopped using checks around that time. Phone banking with DTMF was popular around that time as well. Bank transfers we used more than checks for businesses before then.

For individuals, debit cards became the default around the same time. Same functionality as a credit card, without the credit.

Then Internet banking became mainstream for individuals around the 2000s when everyone got access to the internet on their phones.

Cash remained popular throughout since ATM infrastructure was very good in South Africa.

They do worse than block it, the redirect it to their own servers.

And the data is worth it at volume. They have hundreds of thousands of users, along with the region they are in, as well as data on what websites they visit.

Advertisers have and continue to pay for that data.

It became legal when the Trump administration got rid of net neutrality legislation.

This is why it is so important to get it back, but the current administration is dragging their feet.

They can also redirect that traffic to their own DNS servers, so you think you are using 3rd party DNS, when you are actually still using theirs. This became legal when the Trump administration got rid of net neutrality legislation.

OpenDNS has an article on how to test if your ISP is doing it. https://support.opendns.com/hc/en-us/articles/227988727-How-can-I-tell-if-my-ISP-Allows-Third-Party-DNS-Providers

It's usually ISP specific.

Some ISPs in the USA and Germany have been doing it. This is why DNS over HTTPs exists to bypass those blocks.

Um, if you use their DNS they do. Some ISPs force that in fact.