▲ 2057 ▼ YouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockers (www.androidauthority.com) submitted 2 years ago by ijeff@lemdro.id to c/technology@lemmy.world 485 comments fedilink hide all child comments cross-posted from: https://lemdro.id/post/2883134 (!android@lemdro.id)
[+] AeroLemming@lemm.ee 22 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] ramjambamalam@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 years ago Bingo. Buy a VPN for privacy just means, give us your data instead of your ISP. Now, a VPN provider may very well be more trustworthy than your ISP! But then again, maybe not... That depends on your circumstances and risk profile. permalink fedilink source parent [–] technohacker@programming.dev 5 points 2 years ago (2 children) He did eventually take one later on, which I can imagine must've been a bit of a painful decision ;-; permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Turun@feddit.de 8 points 2 years ago (1 child) He declined the first one, because they wanted him to lie. He accepted the other, because they were fine with just facts. A VPN doesn't protect your privacy. It only helps on websites without working https, which is ridiculously rare these days. Yes, it also hides your IP address, but that is really really irrelevant. If you wanted to stay truly anonymous you'd not log in anywhere and use Tor. The only actual use case is circumventing geo blocking. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] TalkingCat@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago You can also circumvent geo blocking with a proxy, some of them are free, do not send any sensitive info on the free proxies however, not that a paid one is intrinsicaly safer, just like vpns. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ramjambamalam@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 years ago Bingo. Buy a VPN for privacy just means, give us your data instead of your ISP. Now, a VPN provider may very well be more trustworthy than your ISP! But then again, maybe not... That depends on your circumstances and risk profile. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] technohacker@programming.dev 5 points 2 years ago (2 children) He did eventually take one later on, which I can imagine must've been a bit of a painful decision ;-; permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Turun@feddit.de 8 points 2 years ago (1 child) He declined the first one, because they wanted him to lie. He accepted the other, because they were fine with just facts. A VPN doesn't protect your privacy. It only helps on websites without working https, which is ridiculously rare these days. Yes, it also hides your IP address, but that is really really irrelevant. If you wanted to stay truly anonymous you'd not log in anywhere and use Tor. The only actual use case is circumventing geo blocking. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] TalkingCat@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago You can also circumvent geo blocking with a proxy, some of them are free, do not send any sensitive info on the free proxies however, not that a paid one is intrinsicaly safer, just like vpns. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Turun@feddit.de 8 points 2 years ago (1 child) He declined the first one, because they wanted him to lie. He accepted the other, because they were fine with just facts. A VPN doesn't protect your privacy. It only helps on websites without working https, which is ridiculously rare these days. Yes, it also hides your IP address, but that is really really irrelevant. If you wanted to stay truly anonymous you'd not log in anywhere and use Tor. The only actual use case is circumventing geo blocking. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] TalkingCat@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago You can also circumvent geo blocking with a proxy, some of them are free, do not send any sensitive info on the free proxies however, not that a paid one is intrinsicaly safer, just like vpns. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] TalkingCat@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago You can also circumvent geo blocking with a proxy, some of them are free, do not send any sensitive info on the free proxies however, not that a paid one is intrinsicaly safer, just like vpns. permalink fedilink source parent