opt9

joined 1 year ago
[–] opt9@feddit.ch 1 points 11 months ago

Great concept but not stable enough for serious use.

[–] opt9@feddit.ch 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, people should not be looking for ways to watch youtube secretly, but support alternative platforms that don't censor and intimidate people?

[–] opt9@feddit.ch 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, the title of this post is misinformation. If you read the article it says: "The government, however, has said the bill does not ban end-to-end encryption." Even in extreme cases it says scanning will be required where "technically feasible."

People need to relax and pay attention.

[–] opt9@feddit.ch 1 points 1 year ago

You just seem very passionate about the subject. Almost nobody would take that much time to argue in the favor of a small, relatively unknown VPN. But also you suggest that I'm incorrect when I say VPN's cannot be trusted ultimately. Only someone who was interested in maintaining the "VPN is private" illusion would say that.

Anyway, I don't care if you do work for a VPN or maybe even own your own. But it's gonna be hard to push it in privacy forums cuz there are a lot of people who know better. Well, there are also a lot of people who don't now that I think about it.... ;)

[–] opt9@feddit.ch 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Do you work for Cryptostorm?

[–] opt9@feddit.ch 1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I have nothing invested in proving it one way or another. It is something I saw a few years ago, and thought I'd mention it now to warn others. If you think it went from honeypot to non-honeypot, then by all means use it. At the end of the day, you cannot fully trust any traditional VPN because they can do what ever they want and we'd be none the wiser, despite all the big claims. VPN's are for watching geoblocked movies and stuff like that. That's about it. If you want privacy, you'll have to look into other things.

[–] opt9@feddit.ch 2 points 1 year ago

It was a big scandal some years ago and I don't have the time to look it up for you. You can take it as you like.

[–] opt9@feddit.ch 2 points 1 year ago (6 children)

It was a big controversy years ago. You can take or leave the info. I don't have the time to look it up.

[–] opt9@feddit.ch 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does i2p support udp?

[–] opt9@feddit.ch 1 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Cryptostorm is a honeypot that was discovered years ago. I'm surprised anyone even talks about it still

[–] opt9@feddit.ch 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

LibreWolf is about as secure as a browser can get out of the box. Check out the stats here.

[–] opt9@feddit.ch 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

IVPN and Mullvad are probably the best VPNs if you simply want to transfer full view of all your internet activity from your ISP to one of these 2 companies. If you want to keep your internet movements private from everyone, use Tor browser. Its slower and doesn't do udp, but it is much closer to real privacy than the commercial VPNs. Of course, if you are a high priority target of a large nation state, then Tor might not be enough for you, but for most people it works well for those things you want private. If you just want to watch movies, torrent and stuff like that, regular VPNs are the way to go.

 

I found both these settings set to False which causes a cpu overload when playing video. Anyone know why?

 

When I play a video from odysee.com on LibreWolf it uses 2-3x the cpu that Brave does to play the same video. It also turns on the fans in my laptop which signals overburden. My laptop has plenty of power so I"m wondering what the problem is. Have I missed a setting or is this just how LibreWolf works?

 

When I go to a community page (not signed in) I see thousands of subscribers, but when I access the community from within my account, I am shown dramatically less subscribers. I am a new convert from Reddit and don't understand what is going on.

Another community I wanted to join with 1.5k subscribers and lots of posts, came up as zero subscribers and no posts when I searched for and went when signed in. It showed that it was the correct community page, but nothing there.

Am I on a bad server?

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Hi, it's very strange, I found your page with posts and it said 1.5k subscribers, and when I joined I am presented with an empty community (0 subscribers) and no posts. I checked many times that I am in the right place so maybe I did something else wrong?

 

I'm wondering if it isn't better to just whitelist cookies for the sites I need to log into and not bother with a password manager extension (keepasxc or bitwarden). I try to keep the number of extensions in my browser to a minimum to lower the attack surface. And why involve one more entity in the password story? Are there any problems with using the (1st party) cookies of sites I have signed up to and use to keep me signed in?

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