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

• NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Homie. Your response to “don’t trust companies. Take precautions” is “Well ackshually trust this one” and, upon being reminded that other companies used to have good marketing and even practices, was to double down.

  Word it however you want. Either way: Don’t stan for corporations and protect yourself.

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  • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    If you don’t trust the VPN you use then why do you even use a VPN?

    Again - no one is doing any “stanning”. I never said don’t take precautions. One precaution is to thoroughly investigate the VPN company that you choose to use. The entire point of PIA is privacy. If they started lying not only would they get sued beyond belief, but they wouldn’t exist anymore.

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    • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Because, again, it is about managing risk.

      Pickpockets and muggers are a thing. Depending on how worried you are, you might consider only carrying just enough cash for the day but… good luck functioning on holiday in a foreign land without your phone. So you take precautions. You avoid the giant masses of tourists but you also avoid the super dark alleys. And you always keep a hand on your valuables.

      Same thing here. There are plenty of activities where just having a layer of VPN is a great protection (all those linux ISOs, for example…). But I am also aware that were I to do anything where being identified is a serious risk to my safety? I am using alternative methods. And so forth.

      So when someone says

      NEVER trust a VPN.
      

      And you reply

      The only exception to this is IMO ones that (I like)

      You are actively giving bad advice and leading to the kind of shit this thread is about. People who didn’t do basic research who thought they were safe and… hopefully are just at a bit higher risk of getting a letter in the mail from the MPAA.

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      • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        The only exception to this is IMO ones that (I like)

        Oh are we just making up quotes now? Fun! Why did you say this?

        Because, again, it is about managing risk of turning into a newt.

        No one is at risk of turning into a newt, witches aren’t real! You silly billy!

        If we stick to just what people actually said though, you’d see that I said that the ones you can trust to not keep logs and as such actually keep you safe from tracking are who you should use.

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