When this under 16 ban comes in I’m going to lose all the collected art resources I carefully organised and all my YouTube playlists…
VPNs get you banned or shadowbanned but kids under 16 won’t care. They could just keep churning through a bunch of new accounts, the disposability encouraging them to do whatever they want.
But for me when I’m unwell and can’t do much else I spend a lot of time collecting and organising reference photos, art tutorials, and posts with links to free art books. There’s a few years worth that will be near impossible to back up.
And I don’t know what sites will be affected which makes it hard to even try to start migrating.
spoiler
(‘Download account’ options never seem to work - I always end up having to go back and do it manually.)
Even if I buy a dedicated external drive then screenshot and paste links it will be hard to preserve sources or keep images and related information together. It’s a mammoth task to do manually and the old fashioned way. Archiving is literally a job. And you can’t go back to look at them without a login.
For the YouTube playlists maybe I can screenshot to be able to find some difficult to search stuff later, or paste the titles into a mega document, but oh man. Not a good solution.
It will also cut me off from a lot of other artists.
This crap isn’t going to do anything but punish disabled people who spend a lot of time online and people who care about privacy.
But that’s the Australian government’s way. Make grand promises (usually involving “protecting the children”) and then do something that doesn’t work - and has unintended consequences.
I have much more to say about that but I’m tired -_-
I could but at the moment it might be a bit of a steep learning curve for me. And if it gets picked up as changing where my traffic comes from I’ll probably be banned (so instead of inaccessible everything would just be gone)
When this under 16 ban comes in I’m going to lose all the collected art resources I carefully organised and all my YouTube playlists…
VPNs get you banned or shadowbanned but kids under 16 won’t care. They could just keep churning through a bunch of new accounts, the disposability encouraging them to do whatever they want.
But for me when I’m unwell and can’t do much else I spend a lot of time collecting and organising reference photos, art tutorials, and posts with links to free art books. There’s a few years worth that will be near impossible to back up.
And I don’t know what sites will be affected which makes it hard to even try to start migrating.
spoiler
(‘Download account’ options never seem to work - I always end up having to go back and do it manually.)
Even if I buy a dedicated external drive then screenshot and paste links it will be hard to preserve sources or keep images and related information together. It’s a mammoth task to do manually and the old fashioned way. Archiving is literally a job. And you can’t go back to look at them without a login.
For the YouTube playlists maybe I can screenshot to be able to find some difficult to search stuff later, or paste the titles into a mega document, but oh man. Not a good solution.
It will also cut me off from a lot of other artists.
This crap isn’t going to do anything but punish disabled people who spend a lot of time online and people who care about privacy.
But that’s the Australian government’s way. Make grand promises (usually involving “protecting the children”) and then do something that doesn’t work - and has unintended consequences.
I have much more to say about that but I’m tired -_-
have you tried proton or Tor? They give privacy.
I could but at the moment it might be a bit of a steep learning curve for me. And if it gets picked up as changing where my traffic comes from I’ll probably be banned (so instead of inaccessible everything would just be gone)