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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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Your Bank Just Abandoned Your Town. And They Called It Progress.
In towns across rural Ontario, the closed sign in the window isn't just inconvenient. For seniors without transportation or internet access, it's the end of a lifeline. There's a small town in Ontario called Brussels. Population just over a thousand people. About a hundred kilometres north of London. Surrounded by farmland. The kind of town where you know your neighbours and the main street has been there for generations. CIBC just closed its last branch there. Done. Gone. Th

Michael Routhier
May 155 min read
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