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No thanks. It's a huge security dumpster fire as well.
Yes. Edited to clarify.
"resistance against addressed censorship" does not work at all when all your traffic is made public.

People can be prosecuted or otherwise harassed for sharing contents on a P2P system.

> It never looked like an anonymizing tool to me; did anybody advertise it as such?

You are confusing "anonymizing" with "leaking a lot of information to the whole world".

They constantly "forget" to tell people about the huge security impact.

Saving Netflix's bandwith costs by sacrificing your privacy.

IPFS and bittorrent don't do anything to protect the data you are uploading and your IP address.

Case in point: https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/en/peer/

Now every website you visit, any ad/tracker, any homecalling phone app can tell what movies and contents you watch and when you are at home. For years.

Why the downvotes? It's a legitimate question: ME/AMT can be neutralized or disabled.

Bios can be replaced with coreboot.

Some buyers and some vendors actually care about security.

Indeed. Webshits alone are responsible for 1 or 2% of global energy usage.
Re:Things I Learned from Five Years in Climate Tech on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @09:45AM (#22423309)
No, we need "smart" appliances to adapt automatically.
Re:Seattle judges throw out 15 years of marijuana convictions on Friday September 28, 2018 @07:40AM (#18092567)
Law is not a lean startup.

In many countries there are constitutional principles to prevent arbitrary pardon. If a law was unjust all prisoners are freed.

Re:The History of Greco-Roman Vegetarianism (2010) on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @06:06AM (#17808360)
Same for the large majority of people in Europe up to the 1940s.

People would often "eat" meat only on Sundays by cooking a chunk in a soup. Then the elder in the family would eat the meat and everybody else would just taste it in the soup.