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  • Anna@lemmy.mltoPrivacy@lemmy.ml•Can someone explain to me the advantages of using a VPN?
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    11 hours ago

    No VPN over Tor means you first connect to Tor and then to VPN. This is highly discouraged because if someone can tie the VPN to you then they can bypass Tor entirely and get what websites you were visiting.

    What you are suggesting is Tor over VPN, here you’ll first connect to VPN and then to Tor, this is less risky but still not recommended as using Tor is not illegal in most countries (remember US Navy built it initially and they and many other spy agencies still use it) also there are other better ways to achieve hiding from ISP. bridges were designed specifically for that.

  • Anna@lemmy.mltoPrivacy@lemmy.ml•Can someone explain to me the advantages of using a VPN?
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    15 hours ago

    If you don’t use VPN all your traffic will flow through ISP. That doesn’t mean ISP can see your passwords or anything. They can only see which website you’re connecting to given that you are using unencrypted DNS if you are using encrypted DNS with TLS Hello they can only see IP. The claims that VPN protects you from hackers in public WiFi is dead since all websites switched to HTTPS and HSTS.

    By using VPN all of these details now won’t be visible to your ISP but they will be visible to VPN provider.

    If you live in a place where LEA can’t kick down your door and arrest you for visiting website it deems illegal then using VPN doesn’t give you anything.

    Of course even a lot of first world country have strict laws against piracy in that case VPN is good but if you aren’t pirating and live in a free country I’d suggest don’t bother with VPN unless you have other reasons.Another reason could be to access geo restricted content on Netflix and stuff

    Another thing to keep in mind, if you are committing/suspected of any crime then LEA will definitely go through your search history, they can get this through your device if you’ve cleaned that up but use google account then they can ask google, or go to ISP and ask this, obviously if you’re in this category then there are better solutions like Tor I2P

    There are other extreme examples where a cheap ad friendly VPN with no registration comes in handy. If you want to create a zero knowledge email. Most email provider will block you if you are trying to create account with ProtonVPN or from Tor, but if your route your traffic through Tor and then to an ad friendly VPN they mostly allow it cuz they think you’re a dumb dumb. Note - it is generally not recommended to use VPN over Tor.

  • Anna@lemmy.mltoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•Lab grown protein: if created, would you move to it?
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    2 days ago

    You know the difference between a white vegan/vegetarian vs a non white, they don’t try to find something that tastes exactly like a meat. There are a lots and lots of dishes that are 100% vegan/vegetarian and taste much much better and don’t pretend to be meat of any sort.

    If you are so tempted by the taste of the meat then just eat it.Environment isn’t going to get any better just because you stopped eating meat, the animal cruelty isn’t going to stop because of you.

  • Anna@lemmy.mltoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•What subscription service would you gladly pay for?
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    3 days ago

    I’ve a Good news for you then you can achieve that for free. Since 2018 I’ve only seen ads only a handful of times and even that was because I was watching TV with my family on my sibling’s “smart TV”.

    My setup, unlockorigins on web browser and next DNS on phone, also instead of YouTube use newpipe or even better tubular (tubular is just a fork of newpipe with sponsor block) and I pirate all the movies and TV shows.

  • Anna@lemmy.mltoOpen Source@lemmy.ml•GitHub etiquette for a bugix fork that got out of hand?
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    3 days ago

    The general rule of thumb is, if a single PR changes lots of things then it won’t be accepted.

    I’d suggest breaking it into multiple PRs and possibly reaching out to someone on the core team to explain what you were trying to do and how you’ve done it kinda like RFC. Ideally this would’ve be done before you started with a major change but still.

    I see you also mentioned original devs are no longer active. In that case you can send PRs but don’t expect them to get merged but instead if you are still using it, try to update and fix other things as you see fit and people will see it and start using your repo and if at any time original devs comeback maybe they can official handover project to you or accept all your PRs. And this is totally OK as long as you are not breaking any license original devs had, that’s what forks are for. If you want you can rename and do rebranding but that is not necessary unless original devs had trademarked the logs and stuff and that original repo is completely dead.