Call it like you want, in the German Sphere they are explicitly not taxes. The politicians don’t decide over the sum, and also the state doesn’t charge it directly, it’s the broadcasters.

But it’s important that public broadcasting is well funded to provide a good alternative to the private shit media owned by billionaires and not having your interests in mind

Why not make everyone pay? That’s how it’s done in Austria or Germany

It’s much less bureaucracy.

Edit: And most people who claim that they never saw something from BBC on YouTube or heard it somewhere are lying. Let’s be real

But now they have a nice censor infrastructure in Place. Luckily they don’t have some right-wing nutjobs in the Government who could abuse that power in the future

/S

http://erdgeist.org/arts/software/opentracker/

NewPipe or Patched YouTube App using ReVanced Manager

Just use Syncthing?

You can read more Here

If you try to rate-limit them, they’ll just switch to other IPs all the time. If you try to block them by User Agent string, they’ll just switch to a non-bot UA string (no, really). This is literally a DDoS on the entire internet.

https://pod.geraspora.de/posts/17342163

They just Fake User Agents If you Block them

That literally exists for Flatpaks

Wrong. Annas Archive doesn’t Accept Uploads directly themselves (at least <10.000), and they recommend STC too.

To upload academic papers, please also (in addition to Library Genesis) upload to STC Nexus. They are the best shadow library for new papers.

https://annas-archive.org/faq

It’s possible, but Not necessary. The Plugin includes a client

But they include it, as I’ve written it 🙄

(They pool multiple shadow libraries)

BiglyBT includes an embedded I2P-Client

There are already Torrents with the raw data and they’ve used IPFS in the past, but decided it was not ready https://annas-archive.org/torrents (They pool multiple shadow libraries)