Comment on Chrome VPN Extension With 100k Installs Screenshots All Sites Users Visit

• moseschrute@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Honestly I’m mostly leeching off my friends lol. And my cell provider bundles Netflix.

  It’s not super tedious. Every time something doesn’t work, I just add it to my VPN exclusion list. I don’t really care if my ISP snoops on Netflix tbh.

  The VPN blocking doesn’t really bother me. It’s the enshitification of streaming services that bothers me. E.g. why does every paid service now trying to show me ads.

  Btw, a lot of Lemmy instances also don’t play nice with a VPN. Probably to block bots. PieFed is likely the same.

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  • outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    if my isp

    Oh honey it’s so much worse than that.

    And fuck those lemmy instances? Might consider blocking communities hosted on them.

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    • WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I blocked all the political, inflammatory communities. Who needs them?

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      • outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        That’s not my problem here.

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    • moseschrute@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Enlighten me. What damage do you thinking they are doing by snooping in my streaming traffic. Aside from profiling me and predicting my every move lol.

      As far as Lemmy instances, they are likely in a tough spot. You can’t build an enjoyable platform if it’s crawling with bots.

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      • outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        lemmy

        Ours allow vpn’s, aren’t shit holes.

        enlighten me

        Media consumption and ad responsiveness are really good data.

        Then they can connect this to your other shit (phone model browser data etc).

        Violate you with medium certainty everywhere.

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