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It’s a Sisyphean task. Given how easy Algo or Streisand are to set up, why would you bother with VPN providers, most of which have questionable practices and w
by fmajid 8y ago
It’s a Sisyphean task.
Given how easy Algo or Streisand are to set up, why would you bother with VPN providers, most of which have questionable practices and would probably not hesitate to lie on such a questionnaire?
- zigzaggy 8y agoI use streisand and I love it. Easy setup, lots of options, and most importantly, I don’t have to trust a VPN provider. I do have to trust my cloud provider. But it’s encrypted and, to my knowledge, pretty much opaque to them. Either way my primary motivation is to obscure my traffic from unscrupulous data traffickers. And tor is also an option, although I won’t use it.
- fmajid 8y agoI'm conflicted about Tor. On the one hand, it (or something equivalent) is necessary to fight traffic analysis, but it also slows you down dramatically, and a significant proportion of its users in the US at least are involved in serious crimes like pedophilia, which is why I would never consider hosting an exit node: https://www.wired.com/2014/12/80-percent-dark-web-visits-relate-pedophilia-study-finds/ https://www.wired.com/2014/12/80-percent-dark-web-visits-rel...