I think just a card and cash is appropriate for someone you don’t really know, and probably less than $100 unless you’re both rich.

https://youtu.be/ygr5AHufBN4

Yes

Depends on the extent of how much you’d do and if you’d get noticed, really. Leverage being applied against you or your parents could occur, particularly to or via relatives in China, but only if you’re deemed worth the effort. I wouldn’t take that risk, personally, but that’s a very specific, individual decision.

The US is another matter. Sure you’ll go on a list but everyone’s on a list of one kind or another, we’re both on one for using Lemmy most likely.

Would there be any validity in your parents thinking your concerns about this are getting in the way of improving your own life?

I’m not sure the answers so far get to the gist of the problem- how to create these institutions in balance of power, where they can’t just co-opt or capture one another.

I don’t think it’s possible to prevent one institution from actively deciding to give up and relinquish its responsibilities, without constraining or bolstering them to where they can’t act as balances.

If they want power they find a way.

They’d have to connect to it, and possibly reconnect. That aspect is the issue.

My users aren’t going to figure that out.

Oh no they’ll see I’m watching TNG

They prohibit large amounts of media being streamed, and they reserve the right to suspend or terminate accounts for it. Multiple years in, that has not happened.

Edit: here, you can read https://blog.cloudflare.com/updated-tos/

Skill issue

CloudFlare tunnel with Zero Trust, plus their bot and abuse blocking. Users can get in with the right oauth, plus only allowed from the countries I know they’re in. Then just their username and password on jellyfin.

Use your words, if you can.

I’m interested to hear from someone that will disprove this, surely there are good examples given the voting on this.