SundryTornAsunder
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- Submitted 7 months ago to [deleted] | 22 comments
- Comment on Pornhub shuts down in Texas... and predictably, VPNs benefit 7 months ago:
For people with amateur radio licenses, amateur sattelite is a thing is a thing that exists. I haven’t looked into it, or even thought about it at all until now, but I’m sure it’s least theoretically possible for a completely decentralized, amatuer internet to be built using only radio/sattelite infrastructure, which would actually be really interesting. I think we could really use another internet, totally separate from this; an internet that requires a license to access legally, which itself requires passing a test demonstrating a solid understanding of how the system works on a technical level; that exists on the air and only on the air, overseen by whatever regulatory body already oversees the airwaves in a given country anyway, and by them only and by no one else; a totally disparate internet wholly unrelated to this, which, by definition and by law, exists exclusively for every individual reason imaginable that is already legal and which is not commercial; an internet wherein a literal felony is commited by advertising in any way. We could really use a self policing internet owned and operated by the people, for the people; completely free as in going to prison for trying to sell something; completely free as in freedom of speech without limitation otherwise. The internet, meaning this internet as it exists at present, cannot effectively police itself because it’s already used for commercial purposes legally. Don’t get me wrong: we need an internet like that to exist, and I don’t mean to suggest otherwise. If for no other reason than exactly that, it would benefit everyone involved for an amateur internet to exist by itself, I think.
- Comment on Pornhub shuts down in Texas... and predictably, VPNs benefit 7 months ago:
These Terms of Service, your use of this Website, and the relationship between you and us shall be governed by the laws of the Republic of Cyprus, without regard to conflict of law rules. Nothing contained in these Terms of Service shall constitute an agreement to the application of the laws of any other nation to this Website. You agree that this Website shall be deemed a passive Website that does not give rise to personal jurisdiction over us, either specific or general, in jurisdictions other than the Republic of Cyprus. The sole and exclusive jurisdiction and venue for any action or proceeding arising out of or related to these Terms of Service shall be in an appropriate court located in Limassol, Cyprus. You hereby submit to the jurisdiction and venue of said Courts.
—Terms Of Service, PornHub
They will never allow themselves to become subject to any accountability or oversight outside their existing tax haven, be that the State of Texas, or be it anyone else.
- Comment on Pornhub shuts down in Texas... and predictably, VPNs benefit 7 months ago:
I am not affiliated with Mullvad VPN in any capacity and I have nothing to disclose, lol.
Mullvad VPN does not even offer a renewing subscription, that I know of, and I’m almost entirely certain that they used to. Their VPN service costs less than $5/month (USD) if you get their card off Amazon that’s good for a year, and that is literally a physical card sent through the mail—the kind you have to scratch off on the back to get to the number underneath, in other words—and so at least AFAIK, there’s no possible way for whichever unique card you happen to end up getting sent in the mail, to be traced directly to that specific transaction on Amazon, even if you paid for it using your credit/debit card, and directly associated that purchase with your bank account in so doing. It’s even better than that if you pay them by means far less traceable to begin with, of course, and they have those options as well. In fact, they prefer doing it that way as opposed to credit card purchases, even of physical cards through Amazon, IIRC. At least AFAIK, they don’t even accept any form of payment directly traceable to a bank account on their own website, for every obvious reason.
One thing I really like about (using) it, and I have no idea what other VPNs would also do something like this, if any: it sets up a SOCKS5 proxy for you internally, and you can use that anywhere you need a killswitch properly, meaning to make said application physically unable to resolve hostnames in the event of your connection to the VPN being interrupted for some reason. I’m also pretty sure you can use their DNS-over-HTTPS no matter what, even if you don’t alruady use their VPN service. Anyway, especially if you already do, though, I always figure it’s never a bad to use just use the same provider everywhere you can: using their encrypted DNS wherever possible, in addition to using their proxy wherever possible, in addition to using their VPN anyway. I do that, and I also use multi-hop, which hides my enjoyment of innocuous websites everyone else also uses even further. It’s simply a technical matter that doing all of that will make damned near everything—excluding, of course, abject OPSEC failure, browser fingerprinting, etc.—way more difficult to trace than it otherwise would be. It has to be. I didn’t say “impossible” because I never would, and again, it’s never gonna protect anyone from themselves because it can’t. It’s still just so many consecutive layers of obfuscation contrary to the best interest of the boogeyman, especially for the price, that if I didn’t have immediate access to $60 in order to buy another year’s worth of Mullvad VPN, or immediate access to Mullvad VPN, I would literally beg and borrow, figuratively steal, and otherwise aquire.
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