• skankhunt42@lemmy.caEnglish
        8 months

        I would never install this into Firefox but I do want to point out that a lot of pirate stuff is hosted in Russia these days because they can ignore takedown requests

      • 10x10@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        8 months

        Genuine question, are Russian sites any worse or better than anywhere else these days?

        • 667@lemmy.radioEnglish
          8 months

          You make a fair point; maybe I’ve become too cynical, but probably not. Seems like everything everywhere is enshittified all at once lately.

          • 10x10@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            8 months

            I think your right that yes it does seem like a coordinated crack down at the moment. Almost like round 2.

          • 10x10@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            8 months

            My experience with Russian sourced software is to treat it as low trust, like I do everywhere else, until proved otherwise. An example is gitflic.ru. I’m cautious about it but can see a number of developers moved there after being thrown of MS’s Github so a very legitimate reason to use it. Is potential Russian surveillance any worse than the government of the country in which you live? Probably not.

        • 667@lemmy.radioEnglish
          8 months

          *.ph should at the very least be Philippines, but to be completely honest I do not know.

          • Ganbat@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            8 months

            You do know those don’t really mean anything unless used by a government agency, right?

    • zabadoh@ani.socialEnglish
      8 months

      Nothing is wrong with archive.ph , but it’s good to have a backup in case it goes down, or if it starts failing for some reason.