cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/35967051
Most people turn to a VPN for one reason: privacy. And with its verified badge, featured placement, and 100k+ installs, FreeVPN.One looked like a safe choice. But once it’s in your browser, it’s not working to keep you safe, it’s continuously watching you.
Never use VPN add-ons for your browser. Unless you get them along with your paid VPN. You should run your entire network through the VPN, not just a browser.
Do you not run into issues doing this? I’m constantly having to split my VPN or disable my VPN for certain logins to work, such as banks, government sites and shit.
For some games and websites I have to turn it off yeah. Or at least switch the server to one that isn’t blocked.
It’s a shame that websites are allowed to track and block VPNs.
That’s why I temporarily disable it for some websites
Any free VPN is a scam.
Unless you sign up for a VPS free trial yourself and set it up. I have two Oracle always free instances running right now
be forewarned, oracle is known to randomly just delete free VPSs out of nowhere with no warning.
Yes, that’s why I upgraded to a paid account even though my VPSes are free
Ya if you are hosting it yourself then pretty different. I use them for a basic Nextcloud server myself. Their ARM servers are dirt cheap even when you have to go above their free generous cores and ram.
pay an illustrator, ai slophorse.
it’s FreeVPN.One
There’s no such thing as free vpn. Any idiot who falls for this quite frankly deserves it.
There are things on the internet that are free and fine to use. VPNs are not one of them. They have ongoing hosting and bandwidth costs. They are not eating those costs without recouping them somehow.
How the fuck else do you think a for profit company is offering free tech?
Free trial with limitations is a classic method that has worked well
I’m saying it’s literally a free VPN. But they’re q company. If they’re offering you free shit, you’re the product.
Hey, you know when people in the UK were saying that the online safety act would drive teenagers to use dodgy vpns? This is what we meant.
First mistake: using Chrome.
Malicious extensions are also found in Firefox, and every other modern browser is Chromium.
Except for all of the WebKit ones
You can’t trust extensions these days. Granted if you are using a “free” vpn, you are the product.
I guess the P in VPN stands for “Public.”
use either Mullvad (yes, I know, the GUI sucks) or set up your own VPN.
the mullvad cli is very quick and easy. it’s a lot faster than what it was. OR set up your own wireguard VPN on your server, again very easy to set up.
Those two are for pretty different use cases, no? First is for general internet access - for semi-anonymity or to skip Geo blocks. Second is when you want to access specific services you host yourself.
Ubiquiti router with all traffic (excluding streaming sites and video games) encrypted via Mulvad. Checkmate atheists.
Also PS, if you’re not paying for the product you’re the product. Checks notes: I’m not paying for Lemmy?
PPS reminder to donate to Lemmy/PieFed
excluding
Why?
- Minecraft, to keep my ping down
- Streaming, because Netflix and others will aggressively block VPNs
Didn’t netflix encourage vpn’s for like a decade?
I havent paid for streaming in forever, because i dont want to give art-mangling archive-destroyers my money, but that’s amazing.
No idea tbh. All I know is most streaming services block them now since they often have different content in different regions.
That seems so fuckkng tedious. Why are you paying them for that sevurity compromising bullshit? They’re absolutely selling your juicy juicy data.
Valid on the Minecraft.
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.
if my isp
Oh honey it’s so much worse than that.
And fuck those lemmy instances? Might consider blocking communities hosted on them.
I’m looking to expand beyond my edge router X. What router do you use?
I’m using a cloud gateway max with a single U7 Wall Pro AP. 10/10 performance for my medium small sized apartment.
Nice! I was looking at the max version of the cloud gateway, I think it will do everything I need. Thanks for sharing, glad you’re happy with it
Whats more is that, anyone who creates a server can scrape all the data on fediverse. It’s every AI company’s wet dream.
And any comment you delete will still be visible to server admin.
Lemmy currently does have these privacy issues
Meh you’re not wrong, but I just wanna browse content and not see ads. Capitalism is gonna capitalism, but I just want it to leave me alone. There’s a good chance I’m gonna regret this later lol.
People won’t plug their phone into a USB socket in an airport lounge, but they will install software that sends 100% of their web traffic to a third party and has unfettered device permissions.
But you have to understand that it’s still preferable to a wanking license.
What about Firefox? Looks like it exists for more than just chrome. I know because I literally used it this week for the first time ever due to being on vacation in a state that wants my photo to view porn… I couldn’t believe this shit actually exists now.
