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UK Users Are Ditching Google, and They're Turning to a Browser Called Tor
One browser. Three layers of encryption. Zero of your data handed to Google. Something quietly massive happened across the UK last year, and I don't think enough people connected the dots on what it actually means. When the UK's Online Safety Act triggered mandatory age verification, requiring ID uploads, face scans, and credit card checks just to access ordinary websites, VPN downloads exploded by over 1,800 percent in a single weekend. Proton VPN alone saw signups soar by 1

Michael Routhier
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75,000 Fake Songs a Day - And Nobody's Stopping It
One hand spent a lifetime developing something real. The other generated 75,000 imitations overnight. Only one of them moved you. A few weeks ago, Deezer, one of the major music streaming platforms, published a report. Buried in it was a number I haven't been able to stop thinking about. 44% of all new music being uploaded to their platform is AI-generated. Not 4%. Not some niche corner of the internet where tech people run experiments. Forty-four percent of all new music on

Michael Routhier
Apr 245 min read
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