For you, consumer grade VPN lovers. If you don’t control the full path, you can’t trust it. I don’t care if they claim anonymity or protection.
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Yes, I keep telling people to cut the crap with VPN bullshit 🤣
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Are we able to verify proton or mullvad if they keep logs? Or its just more trust me bro stuff!?
We in the west all need to make friends with people outside the west, like proper friends you can trust to be your personal VPN.
Because all the cheap popular VPNs are going to be easier to block, and the expensive VPNs that have less users, well they are expensive
Do they have a completely independent audit done by someone? Can we get our hands on the audit report?
How about making your own? Not a rocket science with wireguard
Very insightful update
This is why China banned Facebook.
And I bet the popular VPNs they use in China to access Facebook etc. are doing something similar.
Y'all should read the terms and service agreement for messenger, you essentially give them permission to clone your identity as an ai chat bot if you use Facebook messager. So if you do, remember to add "death to Israel" randomly, or use it as a greeting or farewell.
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Holy shit.
What if they want us to use VPNs.
What if that's why they are censoring the internet making us upload id for age verification etc.
They want to spy on the kids with VPNs
Took you this long to draw this conclusion? How gullible people are? If you don’t control it, assume you are being watched. It’s so much easier to get into people’s phones when you get to install a profile or two, and plus a central place to spy without warrant or anything 😂
I just watched a tutorial and it seems simple enough.
This is pretty much what you would use of you were using a friend in another country as your VPN.
But I didn't realise how cheap it was to use a commercially available server. $4 a month the guy in the video was paying.
I'll look into it anyway but do you have any recommendations? That accept sats as payment instead of dollars.
Even if they accept sats, they mostly KYC you anyway. You can try any range of VM providers on their trial, and see what works best for you
I've never really bothered to look into it. Never used a VPN, the school laptops had one which we all knew at the time was spying on us. I've used tor to access onion sites, then logged into Facebook. So I'm probably not very smart. Because that was before most of the brain damage from abusing alcohol.
But I remembered hearing that some VPNs were trending in the app/play store from UK users downloading them in response to the age restrictions and it took this video for it to click 💡 in my mind.
Makes sense. I did not want to imply anything about your intelligence, wasn’t my intent. Also makes sense if you never used VPN, which is not really needed for majority of the people.
Tor is not a good alternative to VPNs, nor are VPNs reliable. If you create a VPN on your own hardware with your own networking setup (usually difficult because of upstream speeds thru non-fiber cable networks) then you’re not any safer with either - more protected from the average script-kiddie on a VPN, but not particularly safe.
I use a commercial VPN, but mostly just to protect against bad actors randomly trolling open hotel WiFi and LTE networks, not as protection from the State or determined attackers.
@Obscura VPN may be something worth checking out
That doesn't give you good privacy. You're just replacing your home ISP with one in a data center
That’s for sure. But if you are in a country where ISP is worse for that, than that’s an alternative
hosted vpns require trust
impossible to prove they do not log
but (1) most isps log and know your name and home address (2) self hosted vpns leak web activity since you are not sharing ip addresses with thousands of other users
Yes, unfortunately. TOR at times can help with privacy for people, but probably not the best thing to stay on constantly
nostr:Gm🚀
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no thanks