Comment on Chrome VPN Extension With 100k Installs Screenshots All Sites Users Visit
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 4 days agoNEVER trust a VPN.
The only exception to this is IMO ones that have been proven in court to keep NO logs, like they claim. The only one I know of that has been tested is PrivateInternetAccess, which is why they’re the only VPN I’ve used for like 10 years.
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
You mean the court case from almost ten years ago?
Yeah, that sounds safe. I mean, Google is still all about Do No Evil, right?
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 4 days ago
You think they’ve started lying and keeping logs since then?
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
Again, how many companies say one thing one quarter and another the next? Let alone a decade later.
I am not saying to go uninstall your PIA stuff right now. I am saying to act with the understanding of what your risks are if they are compromised and how important you would be in the event that they are.
Because companies are not our friends. We may have aligned interests but you have to always operate under the understanding of what capitalism IS and what their interests actually are. And while it is fun to aggressively define yourself by what you consume? To play on a fairly misogynistic “joke”: PIA isn’t gonna fuck you no matter how hard you stan for it.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 3 days ago
Wow that’s really something of a reply lol. No one is “stanning” for anything. Who is defining themself by what they consume?