There is NSFW stuff I'd like to see that isn't porn.
sandblast
joined 1 year ago
It's upgraded 😀
same here. also sort by hot on lemmy.ml works now on 0.18.0
This is my personal takeaway as well. The article seems to insinuate that because VPNs by themselves don't do anything meaningful for privacy, they're useless. It seems defeatist, since one could take measures to mitigate fingerprinting. But like you said they're only one of the important parts of maintaining privacy.
I am not more technically proficient than the average user. I have little experience in hosting anything, let alone hosting something that will tunnel all of my internet usage. I'd rather put my faith in my current provider to take the proper precautions and put more effort into things I feel comfortable with. It seems better to me than trusting an unknown VPS provider, my own skill and/or my awful ISP.
I just don't want to be tracked and profiled, especially for ads. I only sign into accounts with personal information for absolute necessities and browse websites without accounts. Plus my ISP openly tracks and sells history to third parties. It's not viable for me to use tor for daily usage.
Freedom of speech doesn't mean you are allowed to say anything you want, everywhere you want without consequences. It just means you won't be jailed for your opinions. Even if you get banned you can join an instance that allows it. Probably would be one that is de-federated by virtually everyone though.
The problem with the statement is the energy sector is the releasing the most greenhouse gasses by far. A small group of transnational corporations lobby for dependence on coal and oil, where individuals don't really get a say.
+1 v0
Downgraded my entire flac library and went from 300 GB to 120 GB while sounding the same to my ears. Fre ac is awesome
Undiscord is wonderful. I used it for the servers I had access to. I will say that their delete profile has gotten ever so slightly better. It now doesn't tie a unique username or ID to the deleted user. It's obvious in small servers or DMs but it's much harder to figure out who sent what if a server has more than one deleted member.
Now I only use a fresh discord to voice chat under an alias email and fake phone number. Matrix for friends that agree to join.
No sorry, I'm on Comcast VPN
ProtonVPN received a request for a vpn user's IP. They did not have the logs, they aren't obligated to store them. They were forced to share mail IP, but are obligated to do so under swiss law, this isn't the case for VPNs.
Perfect-privacy was raided in 2016 and existed long before HMA, PIA, etc. They did not compromise user information .
Like you said mullvad was just raided, they did not have logs. The raid was useless.
Sure, a lot of VPN services are fluff and untrustworthy. Many VPN ranking websites are just ads. A blanket statement that all VPN providers are honeypots isn't helpful nor practical for the average person. A VPN shouldn't be used for anonymity, but a good provider has its use case.
same with proton