HN becoming kind of underground FightClub, where people share how to fight back.

Is there a non-underground FightClub? :)

Also, fighting back against ... what exactly? Ads? The Big FAANG?

This is not the way. It's either beat them at their game (not likely), or building/supporting/using alternatives (eg. Signal, Mastodon, maybe substack? nebula? Librem/microG/LineageOS?), but ultimately it's politics. If "HN thinks" they are too powerful, then "HN has to" influence and persuade people in order to get laws, policies, regulations enacted that control/diminish this power. (Of course if such a grassroots movement gets powerful enough to influence legislation/policy probably at that point the market would respond too, eg. maybe Google would offer a no-track version of their services for cash, or serious competitors would emerge.)

The cynical take is of course a simple good luck, after all "HN" doesn't even have to fortitude to ditch Chrome.

(I hate ads with a passion, and use uBlock, but I don't care about tracking. Sites can and will implement it in their own backend anyway. GDPR/CCPA is the correct level to address the real problem which is handling of personal data [not IP address]. Now it's up to the market and consumer/user behavior to adjust. All these obnoxious consent forms are ripe for "disruption", yet it seems the economic/market value of not being tracked is so low, that it's hard to build a business on it. Though NextDNS is trying, but it's such a small niche, and basically solves nothing ... still, I wish them luck.

If the policy changes regarding "news" in UK/Germany/Australia were not due to bullheaded Murdoch/NewsCorp and regular old media/publishers lobbying, then that issue could be a starting point on which to build something better. But ultimately if every simple view has to be compensated, it has to be tracked.)

Personal data harvesting. Its like feeding frenzy right now.

> This is not the way. It's either beat them at their game (not likely), or building/supporting/using alternatives (eg. Signal, Mastodon, maybe substack? nebula? Librem/microG/LineageOS?), but ultimately it's politics.

This is the way lol. Beating them is the only way that actually works, right now. Politics will takes decades, and will lead nowhere, like stupid cookies consent popups. Networking and web tech is too complex to put it into laws anyway.

Lets build better personal defence tools, browsers, routers, blockers, distributed VPNs that are not as easy to outlaw as Tor exit nodes. For example - https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium. Add ignoramous CNAME backdooring ways to uBlock-Origin. That kind of ways.