@stonebear I remember seeing how some have complained about this enabling "grooming" and basically how it's proof LGBT is bad and want to harm the children 🙄 I wonder if they ever had a thought about why kids want to hide such shit from their parents.
Helicopter parenting must go extinct ASAP and people need to learn that children aren't fucking property.
@souwei The whole "grooming" thing is made-up fascist shit to enable them to scapegoat us queerdos on the way to implementing totalitarianism. Anybody boosting that shit is a fucking fash or their unwitting accomplice, period paragraph.
It's not helicopter parenting that's bad so much as we've raised a generation unable to think critically nor think they have to care about people who are different than they are. The kids know better, and they're starting to take over, but...
@stonebear some technical observations:
it clears the tab history, that's available under the backward arrow (←), but other history features in your browser may still expose that you've visited trevorchat.org
I see a great need for infosec tutorials for LGBT kids, tbh.
@stonebear and I'm boosting. This is even something I promote in my linktree.... Hell I wish I'd known I was #bi or whatever at their supposed ages. Fun times living in the south and that not clicking bc of the lack of education....and discovering it at almost 30 then having oh shit moments realizing things....
This is just so annoying we fail people so hard on giving resources and support thanks to bigots...
@stonebear keep in mind this isn’t magic – trevorchat.org is an unencrypted redirect (which is bad, just find the page on e.g. Google to be sure your home or school has a harder time knowing you visited it), it cannot really erase your browser history (as seen on the screenshot), and you do have to trust the NGO keeps its stuff well maintained since afaik the chats are not encrypted beyond mere HTTPS
but honestly, it’s hurdles that are unlikely to go wrong, just make sure you’re using private Firefox with DNS over HTTPS and you’ll probably be fine
@stonebear same...
In an ideal world, we'd not have the need to be stealthy, but alas we ain't in an ideal world and thus need said features.
In fact I had to setup similar stuff with the option to remotely kick people off a chat system if their devices get seized and/or compromized.
Wow I hadn't heard of the Trevor Project. Just spent like 10 min reading through the Asexuality section. Damn I really wish there were resources like this when I was in high school figuring things out (and I still am really). Really glad this is a resource for them.
I'm a middle aged man and very disconnected from what the youth are going through these days, off in my own little middle aged world and my own little middle aged problems.