Indeed. The text is a nice, manipulative propaganda piece. While I don't know women in the game industry, I know several female engineers, in EE, CS and some other fields. Some of them are very attractive, some are more plain. (I don't mind either way, conversation is far more important than looks.) Now, from their comments, there is no specific discrimination against women in tech. Some think there may be a slight bias either way, but not anything significant. Of course, incompetent women get yelled at and derided just the same as incompetent men, but they though that was rightfully deserved. And the one thing that they universally find quite repulsive is women playing the "women card" to get ahead instead of demonstrating solid skills. Most of them have observed that happening.

My conclusion is that this is nothing but a part of an ongoing power-grab effort by styling women as victims and men as primitive cave-men.

They just send data to some server they own in clear and they know your last public IP. For spywork, that is enough. If laws are draconian enough, they are also sure to find _something_ when they kick down your door. Also, when you are not on US ground (warning: current state, this may change), they may also just drone-murder you and bypass any legality whatsoever.

There are some things you can do even when second-rate, just by throwing resources at the problem. They may also have _bought_ these exploits form people that are not second-rate.

Using Tor (Tails) _and_ doing financial transactions with it! You are sure to be on the short list for a drone-strike...

Well, I am not sure about "minor". But a prime source of zero-days should be the Java-Script engine. Turn it off or use NoScript, and you may be still secure.

It is the most unethical thing they can do. On the plus-side, this may help Tails (and Tor) to get ahead of the game again, as this draws a lot of attention to the problem.

Commercial enterprises (such as Exodus) will do anything and everything that is or should be criminal, provided they can get away with it. Do not even look for minimal ethics there, it is a complete waste of time.

What is certainly there is at least several JavaScript zero-days. JavaScript is complex to implement and easy to get wrong. As this is a commercial effort (as can be seen by its immorality and focus on profit), they will go after low-hanging fruit. The JavaScript engine is the most promising one.

And who said it would not affect other users too?

Indeed. Patreon does not remove the need for the author to produce something others want and consider valuable, before the author can support itself completely by writing. That is as it should be.

You have failed to understand how patreon works. Congratulations, this invalidates everything you say.

Ah. I think I threw away a few of those as well. But there must be more scum playing that game, as I got several of these via email.

Well, yes. The prison operator gets a small profit in exchange for huge damage to society and individuals. The very definition of fundamentally evil.

I was not aware of that functionality. I will give it a try. Thanks!

Hehe, no. I only do that for ads in videos. For normal ads I have almost everything blocked, and the web looks clean and clear.