So has ASEAN NOW bitten the dust?

[butterfly]

1 hour ago, cowslip said:

You seriously think that?

a VPN could do the trick,

But TV has a poor AdSense audience targeting so it's all crap nobody want to buy

I have seen other websites where AliExpress would advertise the exact stuff I was looking for, kind of scary

Edited December 7, 2023 by butterfly

[cowslip]

1 hour ago, butterfly said:

a VPN could do the trick,

But TV has a poor AdSense audience targeting so it's all crap nobody want to buy

I have seen other websites where AliExpress would advertise the exact stuff I was looking for, kind of scary

I konw of no-one who consistently uses a VPN - unless they are in China and even then they get caught out.

[cowslip]

1 hour ago, butterfly said:

they can see patterns in your internet browsing, even in "private" mode, because they can share tracking cookies, even thought it's no longer "allowed"

the point being if AN was hacked the hackers  would have no qualms about making the stuff sellable.

[oldschooler]

4 hours ago, Pinetree said:

A good VPN, with my own individual IP, that's why they have no clue where I am, or who I am.  

 

4 hours ago, Pinetree said:

A good VPN, with my own individual IP, that's why they have no clue where I am, or who I am. 

Yes. Good Paid VPN Needed for the practical purposes of fooling Streaming Services that my IP is in London all the time so not denied service….. You Tube video by obvious VPN expert showed nine stages of internet data access or transmission “ nodes”. Couldn’t follow the science but VPN blocks / conceals 4-5 data nodes but not the other types, which can find you apparently, unless further concealment tricks deployed like bouncing your signals through servers around the globe …..like a spy operation……some FSB Petersburg Trolls clearly inhabiting the TT Ukraine War topic for example.

Pretty sure my VPN blocks any basic attempts to find me via TT posts though.Not least because I/ We here are simply not worth the govt time & effort over our meagre TT opinions  …….

[oldschooler]

Just now, oldschooler said:

Yes. Good Paid VPN Needed for the practical purposes of fooling Streaming Services that my IP is in London all the time so not denied service….. You Tube video by obvious VPN expert showed nine stages of internet data access or transmission “ nodes”. Couldn’t follow the science but VPN blocks / conceals 4-5 data nodes but not the other types, which can find you apparently, unless further concealment tricks deployed like bouncing your signals through servers around the globe …..like a spy operation……some FSB Petersburg Trolls clearly inhabiting the TT Ukraine War topic for example.

Pretty sure my VPN blocks any basic attempts to find me via TT posts though.Not least because I/ We here are simply not worth the govt time & effort over our meagre TT opinions  …….

Also VPN Essential in CCP China for WWW use. When I worked there CCP hackers would find & shut the VPN channel signal down every three days or so but VPN would just keep changing it ……

[Wanderer]

On 11/25/2023 at 5:42 AM, Tuvoc said:

For people who don't care about that forum and are delighted at its demise, you sure do all talk a lot about it.

There's a sort of morbid fascination with it, it was busy and popular, lively and informative. Also plenty of intrigue and personality clashes, plenty of characters, and of course mod clashes. Relatively pedestrian lately, no doubt reflecting the "maturing" of posters. 

Not too many will admit to enthusiasm, but it would leave  a gap if it did disappear. 

[Marc26]

13 hours ago, Wanderer said:

There's a sort of morbid fascination with it, it was busy and popular, lively and informative. Also plenty of intrigue and personality clashes, plenty of characters, and of course mod clashes. Relatively pedestrian lately, no doubt reflecting the "maturing" of posters. 

Not too many will admit to enthusiasm, but it would leave  a gap if it did disappear. 

I was never a member but it had good posts and info on house building 

 

So I would read those threads

 

And whatever it was, it seemed to focus on Thailand 

 

Unlike this forum

You ask a question about Thailand and barely get an answer 

[IsaanJeeperCreeper]

Besides a VPN i also make use of DuckDuckGo as my web browser. I get ZERO adds or banners while perusing the internet now. Plus it provides an email address that you can link to your gmail,yahoo, hotmail etc, use that duckduckgo email and when some website tries to track you through email DDG removes the trackers. I appreciate not having banners and adds with a tiny X that would require a sewing needle to close out of.

[Polkadot]

On 2/6/2024 at 1:40 AM, Wanderer said:

There's a sort of morbid fascination with it, it was busy and popular, lively and informative. Also plenty of intrigue and personality clashes, plenty of characters, and of course mod clashes. Relatively pedestrian lately, no doubt reflecting the "maturing" of posters. 

Not too many will admit to enthusiasm, but it would leave  a gap if it did disappear. 

Full of crazy left wing people.

[rattlesnake]

5 minutes ago, Polkadot said:

Full of crazy left wing people.

The Trump topics are a case study in themselves. Nobody can deny the reality of TDS when reading through them. 

[Polkadot]

1 minute ago, rattlesnake said:

The Trump topics are a case study in themselves. Nobody can deny the reality of TDS when reading through them. 

TDS = losers who need somebody to blame for their life being no good. 

[SnapDragon]

44 minutes ago, Polkadot said:

Full of crazy left wing people.

Their mod Stats drove me out of AN.

TT is slowly recovering from similar moderator madness. Hopefully we are getting there.

[Polkadot]

39 minutes ago, SnapDragon said:

Their mod Stats drove me out of AN.

TT is slowly recovering from similar moderator madness. Hopefully we are getting there.

I think the mods are super bored and super biased. 

[SnapDragon]

41 minutes ago, Polkadot said:

I think the mods are super bored and super biased. 

Make you right there bud.

Why do they keep the 'rogue' mods there?

[Polkadot]

1 minute ago, SnapDragon said:

Make you right there bud.

Why do they keep the 'rogue' mods there?

I don't know. A lot of people left due to mods. They even banned TDS from being used.

[Skip]

12 hours ago, Polkadot said:

I don't know. A lot of people left due to mods. They even banned TDS from being used.

Censorship has become the liberal left go to because they "CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH"

[butterfly]

9 hours ago, Skip said:

Censorship has become the liberal left go to because they "CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH"

or they are tired of battling conservatives stupidity with the truth, censorship is so much faster and more efficient 

[butterfly]

it's not like stupidity deserve free speech and the protection of free speech,

stupidity needs to be destroyed by censorship, it has no place in an intelligent debate

hence why liberals do not have a problem with censorship,

the problem is the definition of stupidity, because with the woke movement, even the liberals are facing their own stupidity

[rattlesnake]

18 minutes ago, butterfly said:

it's not like stupidity deserve free speech and the protection of free speech,

stupidity needs to be destroyed by censorship, it has no place in an intelligent debate

hence why liberals do not have a problem with censorship,

the problem is the definition of stupidity, because with the woke movement, even the liberals are facing their own stupidity

And that is why censorship can never be the answer. It will systematically be exploited by whoever is in charge of drawing the list of what is acceptable or not.

[butterfly]

59 minutes ago, rattlesnake said:

And that is why censorship can never be the answer. It will systematically be exploited by whoever is in charge of drawing the list of what is acceptable or not.

yes sadly, but stupidity will beat you by longevity and intensity, hence why nuclear options like censorship are necessary

imagine if the woke movement would be given a free pass, without an option to stop the non-sense

stupidity is the path to the end of our civilization, it needs to be blocked eventually

 

[Skip]

13 hours ago, butterfly said:

 

stupidity needs to be destroyed by censorship, it has no place in an intelligent debate

 

Obviously... neither do you!

[butterfly]

stupidity is a form of violence, hence why it needs to be censored

would you accept violence in a debate? to beat up someone when losing an argument or to shut him up? of course not,

we censor violence in a debate, why not stupidity?

we don't accept violent people in a debate, why should we accept stupid people? they are a nuisance, and don't add anything in a civil society

[Polkadot]

7 minutes ago, butterfly said:

stupidity is a form of violence, hence why it needs to be censored

would you accept violence in a debate? to beat up someone when losing an argument or to shut him up? of course not,

we censor violence in a debate, why not stupidity?

we don't accept violent people in a debate, why should we accept stupid people? they are a nuisance, and don't add anything in a civil society

What a stupid post.

[butterfly]

I knew that would get all the stupid debaters out of the woodwork 

[Tigger]

For me a very easy choice... Make a post about not being interested in the "Alphabet" sexuality that somebody (Fat gay wanker who can't afford to move back home) TV Shows & get sanctioned... Took me a minute to tell them where to shove it..