Gadian

Gamer/Artist?

[Ihtesham Ali @ihtesham2005]

A guy named Jonah accidentally built the most useful website on the internet.

It's called Privacy Guides.

This is the website Google would rather you not find, Meta actively lobbies against, data brokers have tried to discredit for years, and the entire advertising industry treats as a direct threat to their business model.

It has been online since 2019. It takes no affiliate money. It runs no ads. Journalists cite it. Security researchers trust it.

Here's how it works.

Privacy Guides is a curated recommendation list. The site itself sells nothing.

It just tells you which private tool actually replaces every surveillance product in your life, tested by security researchers and updated every month, organized into 40+ categories with the exact reason each pick was chosen.

→ Browsers that block trackers and ads by default
→ Email providers that cannot read your messages
→ Search engines that do not build a profile on you
→ Password managers you can self-host
→ VPNs that accept cash and Monero and log nothing
→ Messengers with end-to-end encryption Signal-tier or better
→ Photo apps that do not scan your camera roll
→ Health apps that do not sell your data to insurance companies
→ A custom Android OS called GrapheneOS that strips Google out of your phone entirely

The site is run by a non-profit called MAGIC Grants. Every recommendation goes through a public forum review, a GitHub pull request, and criteria published on the site so anyone can audit why a tool was chosen. No company can pay to be listed. No affiliate link exists on the entire domain.

Google can't shut this down. Meta can't shut this down. Amazon can't shut this down.

The entire $600 billion surveillance advertising industry is built on the assumption that you would never spend one afternoon on this website.

https://t.co/BQJjD1jANC

[Gadian @GadianRat]

@carmellaco_ I was super confused because I had dark mode on 🤣. Can't wait tho!

[Gadian @GadianRat]

She who shall not be named
#suyillustrate

[Gadian @GadianRat]

@yenkoes Happy birthday!

[Gadian @GadianRat]

@LudwigAhgren @qtcinderella Congrats!

[🦀 YORA 🦀 @yoracrab]

tried to draw the most "HELL YEAH" image ever

[Gadian @GadianRat]

@konomiarts Very cute

[Raunak Yadush @raunak_yadush]

🚨 Discord is STILL secretly stealing your FPS in 2026 games

Even after previous fixes…

background processes keep spiking and killing performance.

Here’s the updated 30-second fix working right now for most people (+40-90 stable FPS gains):

Fix:
1. Open Task Manager → Go to Details tab
2. Search for Discord.exe and DiscordSystemHelper.exe
3. Right-click each → Set priority → Normal

Bonus:
Discord Settings → Advanced → Turn OFF Hardware Acceleration
Restart your game and check FPS.

Reply with your before vs after FPS (Valorant, CS2, Fortnite, etc.)

Follow @raunak_yadush for daily PC gaming fixes, free AI tools & Windows hacks that actually work.

More coming tomorrow 👇

[Gadian @GadianRat]

@lamone3D Holy hell, amazing

[Gadian @GadianRat]

@DragonRoIlZ Damn, those portraits looking awesome as heck

[モ誰 @jeonghee1414]

DAY58.エレン・ジョー

[Gadian @GadianRat]

@konomiarts Congrats! 🎓🎉

[Gadian @GadianRat]

@LIMART05 Yeah, just time. But busy time. Either working, focusing on your hobbies, filling it with friends, or getting to know someone else that could potentially be special to you in the future

[GamesNosh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @GamesNosh]

I'm talking to people - Sony is currently being inundated with emails and messages behind the scenes from smaller publishers and devs voicing their displeasure over the end of physical games.

I'm actually kinda shocked just how much internal backlash there has been to this.

Doubt it'll make a difference, this was apparently a decision made by the money men within the last two months, is 100% influenced by component costs & manufacturing (AI ruining everything again)

They know nobody will buy a $1000+ PS6

They have calculated that the only way the PS6 makes business sense for them right now in terms of margins is to kill both the retail and resale market. Furthermore, they figure people are invested enough in the ecosystem that they're locked-in for life.

They fully expected a huge backlash and took it into account, but they think the anger won't amount to much in terms of real financial losses and are willing to take the PR hit.

Of the 15% of the current PlayStation audience that buy physical, they expect only 2-3% of people not to move over to fully-digital upon being forced.

The money saved by getting rid of the retailer cut, and lost on the reseller market eclipses that 2-3% and makes up for their miniscule profit expected per PS6 sold. (they will not sell it at a loss, but are willing to only make as little as $50 per unit sold)

The only way they'd ever reverse this decision is if the 2-3% of physical audience they expect to lose is instead around 8-10%+

As much as i'd love to see everyone come together and somehow force their hand with a mass boycott, I doubt it will happen.

They have been wanting to kill physical since around 2020, the AI RAMpocalypse has forced their hand.

[Nitroid ❗️ @Nitroid]

Crazy how Metal Gear Solid 2 predicted this

[GOG.COM @GOGcom]

Even if a game vanishes from the GOG storefront, it never leaves your library.

Exactly as digital ownership ought to be.

[KFC @KFC_ES]

🚨ÚLTIMA HORA: KFC dejará de ofrecer su formato físico a partir de hoy.

Sus productos solo se podrán consumir a través de su app en formato falso png.

[Gadian @GadianRat]

@TheRPGDummy Literally yesterday

[Marques Brownlee @MKBHD]

We should talk more about why the disc price and the download price of a game are EVER the same