From what I understand, they’re able to practically make custom audio files for every download. Sharing the time stamps wouldn’t work that well. Re-distributing podcasts without the ads would definitely land you in legal trouble, cause every audio file is their “work of art”.

Not a problem for ublock because you’re editing their work of art for your personal use, and sharing unaltered stuff.

And youtube sponsor block is just sharing time stamps you might be interested in.

AI system that can recognize patterns and auto skip forward?

No, they are very much in the middle. The attack occurs in the middle between sender and receiver. It doesn’t matter when the attack occurs, that is the position in the message chain that the government targets.

No, because the MITM attack is the relevant government walking up to discord with a paper saying “I do what I want”

Man in the Middle = Government subpoena

Probably racist as well.

Source: anonymous with an irrational hatred of the French, despite several generations removed from the French colonies.

There will never be a dumbest reason to kill somebody. Humankind will always be inventing the next dumbest reason.

Guessing fixing child porn propagation isn’t the highest priority?

Make it easier for server admins to connect/link to the child porn hash databases, scripts for autobans + deletion of any content, flagging + notify to other servers etc.

Feels like the earlier days of interesting reddit.

I have no doubts bots/hostile actors will find some way to fuck things up. Hopefully the devs can finish up tools to keep those problem actors at bay.

Also third world countries where people can’t afford to spend their yearly salary on a mouse.