I see, but couldn’t they just sign up for a provider and then hook up their bots to the same search that you use? Or is the search obfuscated for you too? In other words how do they obfuscate it for the bots but not for the customers? That’s what I never really understood - if the answer is just that the people running the bots are just too lazy to hook them up through the same unobfuscated search that paying customers use then that makes sense, but I always assumed there was more of a barrier since Usenet seems to have evaded legal action since forever.

What stops Usenet from being attacked legally in the same way, aren’t they straight up hosting copyrighted content? I’ve always stuck to torrents because it seemed more decentralized, especially if you use DHT instead of an indexer.

ensuring greater security and privacy for users

Don’t worry guys, they’re just concerned for the users security and privacy

Hmm interesting, so I guess even though I can see this hours old post, my comment should arrive in several days time. Hopefully I haven’t responded to anyone on world with anything important recently.

I also canceled my subscription because it’s been months and half of the posts with comments still show no comments forcing me to open every post in Firefox just to read the comments. Seems like too many bugs that leave the app unusable are being ignored.