Ever since we encountered the first and second wave of information control, a background battle has waged on multiple fronts around the internet. CTH users may encounter disruptions; some information about ‘Subscription Notifications” follows.
I am currently working through another layer of background problem-solving directly related to CTH requests for subscriber notifications. At the core of the problem are decisions on what terms and conditions we are willing to accept.
Currently people can subscribe to have a notification of a new article post. Many people have written over the past several months saying they are no longer getting those notifications. The problem is multi-layered, and at the core is something no one is willing to discuss, because the biggest control mechanisms in your online travel try to keep this information hidden.
Internet Service Providers (ISPs), they’re the entity who you select to use to access the internet (ATT, Comcast, Verizon, or whatever service you pay), long ago began a process to control the content of the information that is processed by their service.
This issue has become more problematic as various nations and governments have also gone beyond their geographic boundary controls with demands upon ISPs to filter information based on determinations of their various bureaucracies.
As an example, the govt of China, Russia, Europe and even Canada may restrict the flow of information available to citizens within that country. Traditionally, they would put control mechanisms in place to block websites or traffic they deemed averse to the interests of that government.
However, as you might have realized with the Social Media restrictions in the USA based on COVID-19 (example), the issue is not always limited to “hostile” countries but can specifically be determined by the subject matter of interest.
With the advent of Virtual Private Networks (VPNs), the need for control creates ever-increasing tentacles. One of those tentacles for internet content control extends to ISP companies, who now find themselves subject to terms and conditions of operation; that means they must also adhere to the fiats of the country from which, or to which, the dataflow is connected.
ISPs now create ‘terms and conditions’ for internet traffic. This may be, often is, invisible to you. However, if ATT (example only) complies with the terms (legal requirement), that means putting blocks in place for the traffic. [This is also part of the age verification and digital id stuff.]
How does this apply to email and/or service subscriptions? Well, in order to send you information, a third-party subscription (or even an email service itself) needs to ‘authenticate’ with the ISP.
The authentication is part of the agreement to the terms and conditions. If the information provider does not authenticate, the information transmission can be blocked – you never get the email or the notification.
The ISP demand for authentication or registration is sold as a need to ‘eliminate spam’ or unwanted/harmful content. The ISP is protecting you. However, we have moved way beyond that issue, and now the ISPs are adhering to regulation, and compliance demands on the content itself. This, as you can easily imagine, is a big deal.
The EU has moved beyond blocking sites to blocking content – the actual information itself. [This issue is not isolated to the EU, only provided as an example.]
If an ISP company wants to sell internet access services to the EU, they must accept EU terms and conditions on the content of their service. That ISP company then demands anyone who transmits information through their internet service to authenticate or register with the ISP. If Gmail doesn’t authenticate with the ISP, then Gmail will not work on the network. The terms and conditions from the ISP are now forced upon the information providers.
As an outcome of this mess, in order to send you an email notification, we must now be compliant with the terms and conditions of each ISP. Those multi-hundred-page legal terms and conditions are now determined by rules and regulations that may have nothing to do with the country of origin from where the information originates.
This is a hot mess, but in the era where anonymous internet traffic is now viewed as a threat, it is a natural outcome. My response to all these demands and conditions is….
CTH did not build a battle tank website of information only to later agree to remove the tracks and drive only on rails that other people (ISPs) put into place. Nope. Not happening.
While most information websites in the website universe began forcing registrations and/or deleting their comment systems, CTH built a comment system from the ground up that is specifically designed for you to remain anonymous. I know this can also be annoying at times, but there’s a big picture reason for it.
Here’s the bottom line. I’m looking at options, but I am not going to agree to terms and conditions that ultimately control content – regardless of the pontificating pretenses from those who say, “It’s not about controlling content.” Yes, it is, and I will fight it like hell.
If your email notifications stop coming, first check your spam folder. If it’s not there, it is more than likely your internet service provider has deemed the information too dangerous for your mind to absorb.
In fact, and I’m not kidding about this, 90+% of all internet user issues, problems, blocks and website issues, can ultimately be traced back to this increased control system by ISP providers…. who are ultimately -in my opinion- adhering to government dictates and fiats.
The only thing I can guarantee is that CTH will transmit the signal. The rest of the process is becoming incompatible with the free delivery of information, when contrast against the interests of those who wish to block that signal.
If I figure out a subscriber solution that: (a) does not come with content restrictions, and (b) safeguards your privacy upon subscribing; I will let you know. In the interim, we will keep transmitting as much as possible.
Love to all,
~ Sundance
Thanks for the splainer
This is an aspect of things i dont think about or consider
Worked on 5 continents
> 30 yrs infrastructure oil and gas
NDAd and Clearances
________
I have tried for decades to discuss on a variety of freedom of thought forums
To show people how to manage where this issue began to originate in the late 90’s
The public at large is so focused on constitution
Sound money
Voting
“My rights”
Left / right
NONE OF THE ABOVE MATTER
yet if I try to discuss it show finance and securities process and codes as the escape
I’m met by the
“It’s the Jews”
and
hate the FED crowd
The ONLY escape from what is almost upon people
Is. . .
Private Equity
Trust
Anonymity
And without FULL UNDERSTANDING
of global finance and economic / banking interdependencies
There can be no freedom of travel
I have all but given up on showing the way out
If the above makes sense
Please reply
One doesn’t need wealth to form a trust
One ACUIRES wealth with trust creation
If you want $1M
make a $1M bucket to hold it in. . .
It makes sense but I won’t get your reply. I’ll have to come back & search for it.
My e-mail provider thinks it’s my nanny.
I was searching yesterday for a history of the written diaries concerning the first European visitors to Jekyll Island, including images None of the search engines can locate it any longer. The history matters.
I have switched e-mail providers several times, phone providers. I have sent text messages that I was told months later “failed”. My cloud accounts have “rained” so I have lost saved documents repeatedly.
The UN and its World Core education (Common Core in the US), the WEF and its component members including all financials, and most churches (COP Interfaith signatories) have declared in writing that it is their responsibilty to eradicate traditional religious teachings and values (there was a woman “white witch” in my grocery store last week who was gathering materials needed to cast spells- where I live more people are pagans than true Christians].
We are the “useless eaters” to be culled when the herd is thinned. They have stated so openly.
They don’t want to be our nannies. They want to be our false messiahs. I have no church organization in my area that is concerned by any of this, measuring success only by the numbers in the doors and amount of offerings.
“As in the days of Noah…”
Revelation 1:3 states the book is prophecy, not history. I am concerned that many unprepared people are about to find out that it is.
I don’t understand much, but trust Sundance.
Just got a notification from Google about some new “terms”, looks like it’s for European control.
Disliking technology more…not sure if that’s the right attitude.
DisTRUSTing technology is definitely the right attitude.
Start by removing google from you life to the extant you can.
google is EVIL!
Thank you,
I know, my email is tied to it. Hubby set up proton for us, I need to switch it all over.
I mainly use Google to search sermons, Bible verses…I’ll probably get jailed for it soon.
If what you say is true then this deserves to blow up in the Conservative news cycle just like when T-Mobile was caught blocking text messages that linked to Gateway Pundit.
However to answer your question all you need to do is set up an RSS feed. And then people can use an RSS notification app of their choice for example one called “Digest” turns it into an email notification.
In 2009 we discovered that Tmobile was restricting our access to sites of scientists who were informing us about the global warming scam and the dodgy science behind it. We noticed Google manipulating numbers of sites recording interest in a story.
I went back to communicating in snail mail where there are laws about interfering with mail. Ssssshhhhhh!
I’ve been using RSS to view CTH rather than an email subscription for a decade now.
CTH has an RSS feed set up. I have my feed fetcher automatically fetch a couple of times a day. Then I save a copy of the articles to my physical hard drive and read at my leisure. Works like a charm. I do understand the problem SD is having involves SD sending things, not me fetching them. Peace.
Thanks, I didn’t realize it was already available. For me I just check the site when I feel like seeing what’s new. No RSS. But I imagine someone who wants a notification each time an article is posted could use RSS apps as a workaround. However Sundance’s point remains even if an RSS service like usedigest.com is considered more trusted and allowed to get emails through, then that is simply because they have been more compliant in agreeing to ISP terms and conditions, which are incresingly less about spam/malware protection and more about censorship/control. And that is very concerning that yet another trusted piece of functional society gets subtly infiltrated and corrupted.
Why does anybody need to be “notified”? There are new articles every day that can be read by clicking a bookmark.
I have always tried to stop any and all notifications because they are just time wasters. Oh, there’s a storm coming. So what? Can’t you see by looking up at the sky? Or is it too difficult to remove your eyes from your phone?
Oh, there’s a child missing! So what? It’s 20 miles away.
And one of the worst is when you stop or end a spam text, they send you a notification. Didn’t you just tell them to stop?
It’s gotten utterly ridiculous. Go to the dentist and they send you 6 email “notifications”. Buy something online and you could get 8 or 10 “push” notifications by the time you get the product. Think about the terms used. Push and feed are control words and I don’t want anyone to control my day. Many people drop what they are doing because some stupid notification arrives.
If you take the time to access and read a notification it’s the same time as just clicking a bookmark or searching. The key is “you” control your life by avoiding notifications.
Just mention a topic while online online and instantly you get unbidden marketing hits on that very topic. I still cannot get rid of multiple daily toenail fungus ads, and I was not even the one with the problem.
Windows 11 with Firefox browser using uBlock Origin and Brave search from search bar. I get no pop ups. UBlock shows it is currently blocking 17 items on CTH.
I also have my browser set to delete all history, cache, and cookies, every time I close the browser. This gets rid of many of the breadcrumbs you leave when you travel the www highway. Yes, it messes with some settings and passwords sometimes but the positives far outweigh the negatives.
Supremes uphold birthright citizenship!
Supreme Court: States Can Ban Trans Athletes From Girls’ Sports
thanks for going off topic /sarc
C’mon man!
Prove it.
Thanks for the heads up Whatevs.
Now I can go research that since that’s the first I’ve heard of it today. Thanks for going off topic!
Before the internet they still had revolutions. How?
Easier then, they couldn’t spy on everyone back then. The other day we talked about flock cameras, they listen to our phone calls. They intercept our web traffic. Use TOR and your ISP will report that. But they can’t catch a psycho trans killer with a manifesto online before they kill multiple people in a school or church. Go figure.
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I submit they are not looking for the trans killer….
Duh!
Simplified version:
You roll up to the village pub and buy everyone beers. Word spreads, everyone comes. After much drinking the speeches start. Then you invite villagers to tell stories of their greivances, proper preparation means you already know them. Then another speech to whip up the crowd. Torches prepared and waiting in a wagon outside. Then you lead your drunken angry crowd to the manor.
Check out Battle of Athens, TN, 1946. (Unless they have removed that as too dangerous). There is a movie on You tube about it that starred Treat Williams (?) If I recall correctly.
Nobody was a keyboard warrior.
The people of Romania in 1989, quite an example.
I use protonmail and I get the emails. Protonmail is encrypted when I engage with another email account with encryption. The email I get from CTH has the encryption indicator on.
Proton also gives you alias email addresses if you want them. That really helps keep the spam down.
I use Juno for my email and T-Mobile is my ISP. I still get notifications.
Me too. And Proton is probably the hardest email platform for third parties to try and read the actual content.
But I think here the issue is outbound content from the CTH website via its ISP to subscribers who’ve requested email updates. Much harder to fix.
Thanks to Sundance for doggedly sticking to his guns on this issue.
Up here in Maple Peso land, Carnage has just passed bills without debate which allow authorities to access all my content on any device without telling me. And if I am deemed to have “transgressed the unwritten law” (to quote Stig O’Tracey), my ISP can be forced to cancel all my services without telling me why.
And… if I tell anyone at all what happened I can be fined or imprisoned. 🤯 😡
Switzerland has the best privacy laws in the world. The US cannot access your emails there.
Strong Data Protection: Based in Switzerland, it benefits from some of the world’s strictest privacy regulations.
Proton is at .me, but don’t be confused by that.
“.me” is Montenegro’s country-code top-level domain (ccTLD). It’s also commonly used by people/brands worldwide as shorthand for “me,” similar to how “.io” is used.
Montenegro’s country-code top-level domain is “.me” because the domain was assigned based on Montenegro’s country code (ME). The ccTLD is not proof that a website or email service is physically run in Montenegro.
Companies often use various ccTLDs for branding or because the domain is available/registrable under common rules, not because their headquarters is in that country.
🎯 💯 Which is why I use Proton. Paid for with anonymous (or is it? 😉 ) crypto as well. Their VPN is nice too, but a bit limited.
In the end I figure we’re all cooked anyway. Nano-ferrite remote-controlled by 5/6G in your vax, tap water and food. Or inhaled from the geoengineering above. 😱
As my dear old mum used to say “Cheer up Frosty, things could be worse”. So I did, and sure enough they were. 🤪 🤣
Montenegro is one of the crookedest countries out there. Don’t touch any thing associated with them. Do homework first.
Time to vamoose. Or maybe past time.
Same here
Email provider is not the issue. ISP is the issue. Just like Sundance said above. 🙄
Yup. I just drop in daily. Long ago quit bothering with notifications that might or might not come.
You do great work, Sundance!
I do the same, but 2-3 times daily. Also, the X feed.
Me, too.
Same here.
FILTHY LIBERALS
Do people find it too difficult to click and open the site to check for stories like I do?
Do these People Vote? How? Asking for a friend.
Yeah, I get enough email “notifications”. If the content on a site is good enough, I’ll check in regularly on my own.
Same here. I also like the comments to have time to ripen before reading an article.
🤣
yup, ya don’t want to come-and-go in round 5 if it’s a 12 round bout…
😂
Checking in on the site is easy, I never subscribed to that. The notifications of replies to posted comments is the real point.
They’re actively interfering with every US citizen’s 1A right to have a conversation.
The only notifications I get are weather warnings.
“Lightning has been detected in your area.”
Oh, so *that’s* why I heard a thunderclap!
They wait for their government employee union bosses to tell them how to vote. This alone can draw in potentially 23 million voters. Then add their family members and friends. One of the many ways, Democrats do rig election outcomes.
Thank you for always trying to protect our privacy, my friend.
I can always just log in to see what’s up without an email prompt. These dirty mf-ers will never defeat us.
WOLVERINES!
I check CTH several times a day. It’s not that hard.
I find that I check several sites….several times a day. CTH is first in the morning and last before hitting the hay.
I use Starlink…
Great, but doesn’t address the security of the outbound email content from CTH via its ISP.
Question:
The comment system may be secure from the CTH end, but isn’t every keystroke on the user end being logged and accessed without regard to 4th amendment rights anyways?
Keystrokes are not logged unless you have spyware on your computer. That is usually to steal passwords or catch cheating spouses. But the messages you type can be seen. Also Google analytics is everywhere. I block Google with add-ons like Opt-out for Analytics, Don’t track me Google and Google Analytics Blocker but just about every website uses Google so Google gets some information.
There is TOR but you can get reported by your ISP for using TOR. There are other IP address anonymizers and spoofer addons, but a lot of sites won’t let you on or let you post if you use one. A good VPN costs money and many still keep logs.
Here are two sites to see who is looking at you.
https://www.doileak.com/classic.html
https://browserleaks.com/dns
I also shut down all telemetry on my web browsers (the browser reporting back to the developer like Chrome or Firefox). I also shut down WebRT and WebGL that have browser leaks that can be exploited. This limits some sites. When I posted flock cameras the other day about haft the sites I tried wouldn’t load because of that.
Immediately used doileak to check…had a leak, now plugged.
We’re safer bc of your post.
THANK YOU
I’ve been saying for a while now, necessity will create a new, two-layered internet down the line. The “boomer” current ISP model that is bland and sanitized of wrong-think. And then a new torrented kind of system where individuals/groups help prop up their own internet, while also having the option to strictly regulate who they let in to their communities (freedom of association).
The obvious challenge is that all of the above players will be adverse to this, but they more they try to control, the more sand slips through their fingers. Freedom is the purest expression of evolution itself, and what truly leads to change and innovation over time, and trying to fight against that is about as productive as trying to paddle out into the ocean and punch a tsunami thinking you can beat it back. You can’t. THEY can’t. And deep down they know it.
We have multiple failures of government/society looking us dead in the face. They know it. They know that we know. And they can see that we are rapidly losing patience with pretending everything is okay when it isn’t. It’s the same delusional thinking that when Trump leaves the White House the status quo will reassert itself. Wrong. And deep down they know that.
They see that over 80-90% of Americans want election security. Yet they piddle and act like they can’t pass the SAVE Act even though now it’s very clear to them that we aren’t buying their BS anymore. They’re bitter and angry that all their old tricks aren’t working anymore, and the People, are in fact not as dumb or easily fooled as they thought. And they hate us for it.
Rejoice.
When’s the last time a million citizens physically came together in America to assert their displeasure of a current affair that demands attention and/or change?
Never.
I wonder why?
Perhaps that’s why the opposition is so brazen in their outright “in-your-face” contempt of The People’s needs!?!
“When’s the last time a million citizens physically came together in America to assert their displeasure of a current affair that demands attention and/or change?”
J6. 2-3 million easily, no matter what the propagandists say.
Next time it will be far bigger, and not so peaceful.
💯💯💯🇺🇸💥
Great additional reminder of how corrupt certain govt employees strive to be arbiters, like rulers, of the planet.
Not getting notifications has happened to me.
I check my spam, find a ‘Last Refuge’ email. Mark it NOT spam and that fixes it for awhile.
Yahoo mail is always asking if I want to mark ‘Last Refuge’ as spam or unsubscribe.
I always click NO, but I think yahoo mail does it on its own.
I am at a loss for words, lgbmiel.
I use ProtonMail which has a sub-product called SimpleLogin which allows one to set up a forwarding email address for mail to be sent to, which is then forwarded in encrypted form to my primary email address. No issues receiving anything once SimpleLogin was used.
The notification emails used to go to a Microsoft hosted email but stopped coming through, hence the workaround.
I have used Proton for years, worth the money
“From which, or TWO which, …,,”. is an editing mistake. I’m unable NOT to edit😂. I’ll help out anytime😊
More Power To You, Sundance!
Love you and your Crew, Sundance
ty so much
Becky
I have got my notifications for years without a hitch. Thanks for all you do
Sundance , can you list ISP companies that are the best and worst as to controlling info on internet? Can we not use the market to apply pressure on these companies? I am with Zipley fiber now and no problems yet.
Is Starlink maybe a better ISP?
Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
Never ending, man vs God.
Slowly at first, then all of a sudden! We are slowly being restricted to information! Remember, control is the reaction to fear. The Left is going bananas! I sure as Hell don’t want some strange entity controlling info I want! I’ll make that decision myself! I paid my dues in full in my life. Thank you!
Thank you so much for the information. You work tirelessly to bring us up-to-date information. I’m sorry you have to fight this behind-the-scenes censorship no matter what ‘they’ choose to call it.
CTH and President Trump never sleep!
Never mind email notices. The question is: Are the ISPs going to start blocking web pages, i.e. articles? How about entire web sites, like CTH? What would we do then?
Thank you Sundance. We appreciate understanding what’s being done to us.
Xfinity here…still receive notifications. Sometimes I get those nasty pop-ups, but I tweaked my browser….Thanks for the heads-up Mr. Sundance…
God Bless Sundance/Crew and all patriots on this forum…
Happy 250th USA!!!
Thank you SD for everything you do. I check this site throughout the day and don’t rely on notifications. If you get it sorted out that will be great. Regardless I will be here to read the latest posts.
I have a habit if going to the website at least 3 times a day to see if you have new articles. I get the email notices but don’t need them. To feed my political nutritional needs, 3 checks a day is like a Flintstones multi vitamin.
3 times a day is on the low side for me. Thanks, Sundance & Crew for all you do, and for your amazing perseverance.
Once I finally realized that not all of the CTH email notifications were reaching my inbox, I retrained myself to use any that do make it through as prompts to visit the website. I click on the CTH website’s “Home” link and quickly scroll through the list of headlines to pick up wherever I left off. It might not be perfect, but it gets the job done.
We just switched our provider to Cape (cape.co). They tout high privacy. They partner with Proton, which we have had for about four years. So far, so good.
I don’t need an alert to new articles here. This is my go to for any news and analysis and I hate to admit it but I obsessively check in throughout the day. The Treehouse is one of the few places that helps maintain my sanity. Love what ya do Sundance and keep up the good fight and thank you to all the great commenters that help me stay grounded. God bless!
As I was reading through this, I figured Mickey would be summarizing your position.
THANK YOU Sundance!
To be certain I do not miss any of your invaluable insights, I will begin checking at CTH website directly (not simply depend on email notifications).
I use Brave with Proton VPN, and Protonmail,,,,the best I have found so far
I honestly don’t care about email notifications. I just go to CTH every day and read the content/articles I want to read. I know Sundance is publishing articles so I just read them when I have time. I see all the articles…read and get caught up…and move on about my day. I treat CTH like a reliable news site and make sure I’m current. I take the responsibility to do that. I don’t need an email telling me there is a new article. It really just seems like email notifications is a lot of unnecessary hand holding when the content is there and free. People really need less spoon feeding.
Wow what a hot mess it is, I agree. Thank you for explaining. It feels like we are in the water and it is getting warmer and warmer. It does seem like globalist forces are executing a noose around liberties that will make national sovereignty seem as powerless as a horse and buggy. We’ve got globalist forces inside our country and outside our country all trying to enslave us.
Once again we are left to consider the power that globalist forces have is only to destroy. They cannot build anything. Evil has always existed, and I don’t think since man first walked the earth, that evil has won over goodness for very long. In the end evil eats itself alive.
I go several times each and evertay to CTH because I know it is the best website online, and would feel lost without it.. I als read all comments that follow the articles because I learn so much rom them. Next to prayer, CTH and its marvelous Treepers keeping my morale and hope flying skyhigh in these demon-ridden times.
While it is nice to see notifications of your post topics in advance, I have simply started visiting your site off and on throughout the day to see what’s new, etc. The lack of notifications does not appear to majorally impede my ability to keep up with your views and insights.
But thank you for explaining the new level of chains on us.
I just check the site every day. There’s new articles almost every day. I come read them when I have time. Not sure what good a notification would be anyways.
(I have about 5 websites I read with my coffee including CTH)
I wondered why I stopped receiving that email. Thanks for the explanation.
CTH will transmit the signal.
That’s all I need to know. Thank you!
I learned years ago they love to mark emails as spam. After me marking not spam enough times i get most of them in regular folder. Much easier just to check sight periodically throughout the day.
I’ve been getting notices about terms and conditions from Google…gmail. Like most everyone I don’t read them. My ISP, Frontier/Verizon via EEro’s blocks malware, bots and phishing scams but they don’t tell you what those are. I just come to CTH everyday to check things out.
Have been lurking for quite awhile. I love and appreciate Sundance and his companions!
With all the tech we use now, the only thing I have figured out to do is make it as stupid as I can and hope it still functions to be useful.
Short story, my son came over to help me with a project I had going on, we take a break and he wanted to catch up on some baseball games on the TV. He hits the on button, TV says Smart TV. He says something is wrong with your TV, I tell him, I have made it stupid, you have to hit menu button and go to that channel you want to see. He says why, my response, no tech is telling me what to do, I paid for that thing and its going to do what I want.
I also change cells and number like I do my socks, plus I make them as stupid as possible. My family and friends get PO because they have to wait for me to call them telling them I have a new cell and number.
I remind my family our Dad would turn off phone service so he could save money for a vacation. Now that is prioritizing life’s important things.
“Can’t stop the signal, Mal.”
Mr Universe, Serenity
Great tv series and movie originally on SciFi channel, which has now become the Harry Potter only channel.
God bless! 🙏
never asked for notifications so haven’t missed any. However, it is good to know that the Dancer of the Sun is doing everything possible to keep us up to date but hidden from view as much as possible. You and your team are a doge in action.
I keep you in my daily prayers, Sundance.
🎯🙏
For me I check the treehouse website at least twice a day. My main source of information I can trust.
Thanks Sundance!