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Why only smart phones? Yeah I guess I was thinking when I considered having to make it work for both of us. Although... I don't know pretty tired right now can
by ge96 10y ago
Why only smart phones?
Yeah I guess I was thinking when I considered having to make it work for both of us. Although... I don't know pretty tired right now can't quite think.
I didn't mean to imply "in the router" I meant route traffic to VPN, I mean I guess I wouldn't have to tell the other person that we're now using a VPN assuming the internet speed isn't affected, we're using the 1000Mbps Google Fiber (haha ridiculous I know)
edit: throttle = better? Can't seem to reply to your post. Oh well, I don't want to replace Reddit with Hacker News haha, I used to be on Reddit but banned myself. I talk too much, especially more important to my clients when I go through what I'm thinking/doing word for word on Slack for example Jesus... self control is my problem, case in point.
- mirimir 10y agoI don't know Android or iOS, so I'm just repeating what I've read. I vaguely understand that, because you lack administrative privileges, you can't readily control how particular apps access the Internet. Maybe someone could clarify for us? If you just run VPN clients in your devices, there will be no effect on the other person's devices. If anything, using VPNs will throttle your connections, so they'll have better speed. That's especially likely with a gigabit uplink.
- ge96 10y agoOh that's right I remember, Jesus I was off. Yeah I was trying a few, can't remember if I tried OpenVPN, AirVPN, and tunnelBear or something. Had to work on command line... yeah I couldn't get it to work if it was a free one (not free I wasn't trying to pay). Yeah I feel dumb now with the external configuration question. Anyway thanks for your time, I suppose if I really needed/wanted to I can figure it out, I think I can read haha.
- mirimir 10y agoIt's hard to get honest advice about VPNs. As Brian describes. That One Privacy Site has a good summary of what VPN providers say about themselves.[0] I tested a bunch of VPNs in Windows and OSX, and found several that I couldn't make leak.[1] There are relatively unbiased discussions on Wilders Security Forums.[2] 0) https://thatoneprivacysite.net/ https://thatoneprivacysite.net/ 1) https://vpntesting.info/ https://vpntesting.info/ 2) https://www.wilderssecurity.com/categories/privacy-related-topics.39/ https://www.wilderssecurity.com/categories/privacy-related-t...
- ge96 10y agoThanks a lot for these links. Starting your count from 0? Come on now... haha.
- shalmanese 10y agoIf your ISP is already Google, it's not clear just how much additional privacy you'll gain from blocking snooping by Google the ISP but not Google the search engine and analytics provider.
- ge96 10y agoI suppose. Too bad it's hard to beat Google's search results relevancy (or is it?) I by default always use Google Chrome. Sometimes Firefox. To me it is somewhat like trying to use anonymous currency, you have to buy it from somewhere, and then somehow use it while remaining anonymous. I don't know maybe not, recently bought a fraction of a bitcoin, went through coinbase seemed pretty dumb 'Here's my real name, my address, my picture, etc...' but then you could transfer it to a wallet and make it disappear from there but... I don't know. I have no reason to use it anonymously either. Just another place to keep money. I'm not able to have "real" bank accounts because I was an idiot and destroyed my credit score. Oh well dumb will be dumb.