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FoundFootFootage78
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- on Any private search engines that aren’t SearxNG? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 3d ago
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on Any private search engines that aren’t SearxNG? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 3d ago
To make it known that there is this belief, and there is not unanimous support for Kagi.
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on Any private search engines that aren’t SearxNG? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 3d ago
Kagi is trash. I can’t be bothered elaborating.
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on Which VPN do you use and why? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 6d ago
DNS over HTTPS encrypts your DNS queries, which means at most your ISP can see what sites you visit and not what you’re doing on those sites.
Depending on the infrastructure used by the site, your ISP might also not even know what site you’re visiting.
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on Which VPN do you use and why? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 16 Sep 2026
I don’t, I use DNS over HTTPS. That’s far more fitting for my threat model right now.
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on SHOULD you use vpn and tor? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 7 Sep 2026
They can see the timing and packet size for your requests to the VPN server, as well as what your VPN provider is. On the VPN’s end they can see what sites the users (collectively) are visiting, the packet sizes, and the timing. That information alone is enough to identify who is doing what with reasonable accuracy.
This is before issues of using the government’s massive resources to brute-force encryption, possible government backdoors in VPN servers, and browser fingerprinting.
There are various steps that can be taken to mitigate this, and this of course assuming the government has access to the ISP’s metadata from both your network and the server’s network (not a stretch, but not necessarily guaranteed).
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on Flock just hired 3 corporate lobbyists, Bloomberg reports in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 7 Sep 2026
Did they not already have an army of lobbyists?
I assumed they did, given the amount governments are bending over backwards for them.
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on SHOULD you use vpn and tor? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 7 Sep 2026
I’m not sure the topic is really about privacy, but if your threat model requires a VPN + Tor, you’re already screwed.
The government can see the metadata of your requests. With enough metadata they can identify what you’re doing. Adding a second layer doesn’t really change that.
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on We Could Get Sued for This - Gamers Nexus in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 6 Sep 2026
I stopped watching him myself for a few reasons.
Firstly because I watched that 3.5 hour documentary on the Nvidia AI GPU black market and thought “this could’ve been an email”. I gained next to nothing from the time I spent on it and I did not enjoy it. The same applied to the rest of his videos too.
Secondly because I’ve started to be pro-professionalism, and Gamers Nexus lacks professionalism such as in his dealings with LTT.
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on For those looking to migrate away from Mullvad VPN, what are some alternatives that the community recommends? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 6 Sep 2026
iVPN, PrivadoVPN, Windscribe and ProtonVPN are generally considered leaders in the space IIRC.
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on What's something people should buy today instead of tomorrow? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 27 Aug 2026
Mullvad had some anti-censorship option last I checked. Don’t remember what exactly it does, but it had some sort of option.
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on What's something people should buy today instead of tomorrow? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 27 Aug 2026
Mullvad VPN let’s you buy 10 years in advance IIRC. So if the government bans VPN’s (but Sweden doesn’t) you might still be able to use them for a decade.
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on Convenient ways to pirate books on a Kubo? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 12 Aug 2026
In my case I’m just accepting the slim pickings. Even with the pickings being so slim, I could still theoretically never run out of things to read.
That said the search functionality is abysmal and that’s what’s really giving me pause.
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on Desktops are gonna be screwed by this too. in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 10 Aug 2026
It’s really frustrating that this whole situation is caused by people not knowing how to enable parental controls.
Price is a big one. That aside I didn’t like the interface, I couldn’t consistently find the results I was looking for, and again price.
I’d maybe be willing to pay $5 a month for a good search engine. $10 a month even. But $10 a month knowing half my money is paying for bundled AI searches I never wanted nor asked for is a bridge to far. I’m not militantly anti-AI, but I don’t want to be forced to pay for it if I want Kagi to be even remotely useful (300 searches is a joke).