A community for Lemmy users interested in privacy
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Religion, sexual orientation, union membership and political beliefs have all been used in the past to persecute people.
To think that it's not possible again is naive.
Privacy is the most fundamental right to be free.
Without privacy, the Chinese CCP model will be the model we all will eventually live under.
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I love Mullvad. You don't see them in any ads (No "this video is brought to you by Mullvad VPN") and you can pay them any way you'd like... Including cash!
No port forwarding, though. Some old guides still list them as having that capability, so I try to mention it frequently.
I've never used that feature in any of my VPN clients before. What's the actual usecase for it?
Possibly if one might want to be able to access a service behind the VPN without having a load balancer / reverse proxy?
That's a turn off for some and I get why they did it
I don't see why having options are turn-offs except maybe for those who provide said options.
I don't understand. I mean I see why not having port forwarding would turn someone off from going with Mullvad, but I understand Mullvad's rationale for doing so.
I understand their decision to stop offering it, too, especially if I were in their position as a service provider. I still like the feature as a consumer.
It's the only VPN I've seen advertised irl though. I've seen it advertised in the metro and on buses, which struck me as odd
I live in a rural area, so I've not seen any VPN ads IRL. I wasn't aware they had real world ads. Thanks for letting me know!
Yeah I thought it was super weird even in the city. VPN just doesn't seem mainstream enough to plaster on the metro !
That’s crazy lol whereabouts are ya? Midwestern USA on my end. I don’t recall ever seeing an IRL VPN ad.
Metro area on east coast of US
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The way I explain it to people who say that to me is that it doesn't even have to be something illegal or sketchy.
Everyone...and I mean everyone has something about themselves that, were it common knowledge, would change the way your friends and family look at you. Maybe for the better. Maybe not. And if you, for whatever reason, don't want that they be known, then so be it. That's totally your decision, not the governments.
If you want to let your freak flag fly proudly, go ahead. You have my full love and support. If you want to fly your freak flag privately and not have it be common knowledge. You also have my full love and support.
It's not about "having something to hide". It's about the you that you choose to present to the world. And that is a fundamental right.
It's also about the fact that social standards and laws change. What may be perfectly acceptable today, could cost you your job or freedom in a few years.
Look at how many people lost their jobs, careers, and social standings because of old tweets that were resurfaced years later. That's not even legal changes, just social propriety changes. The internet used to be the Wild West. People would go out with guns blazing, hootin ' and a hollerin'. Then several years later we found ourselves in this socially progressive identity focused environment and shit people said in passing, likely without any thought at all, suddenly became part of their public identity.
Now imagine that there's a drastic change in the law. Today you're celebrating pride month, and 5 years from now homosexuality is outlawed retroactively... Seems preposterous, but it's really not. We need our privacy, from both the government and corporations.
I've got a bit of a VPN question if anyone wants to educate a newbie a little. When I tried a VPN (Mullvad actually!) it defaulted to Sweden but then accessing my banking information didn't work. If I switch a VPN to reflect that I'm somewhere randomly in the USA, is that still sufficient protection?
it depends™
what are you protecting yourself against?
for my use case, that'd be good enough, i don't want my school/building admins to snoop on the websites i visit, and don't want to fear academic repercussions for torrenting and such
though if you think your government is out to get you, then tunneling to another country is probably best!
Nothing that serious, thankfully. Just want to obfuscate my data and leave as little of an impression on the internet as I can. Good advice, thank you!
Your bank probably wants to make sure your account isn't being hacked. Either they think you're using a VPN, and they believe it could be a malicious person from literally anywhere, or they think you're in Sweden, and they have no idea how you got there.
It's cases like these where you might want to temporarily disable the VPN or make a special exception for your banking app, but that's up to you.
Yep! That's what I figured. I don't mind. I appreciate the attention to security.
I've torrented in the US and haven't been hit with anything. So I think it should be fine as long as you vpn anywhere. Except maybe very totalitarian countries.
504s ... :(
I am pro privacy and hiding your shit because as a engineer, my goal is to do cool shit. Cool shit like seeing what diseases your poop has.
Then some fucktard sees that data and uses it for evil.
Any woman tracking her period is getting Handmaid's Tale and it's bullshit, all because engineers want to do cool shit.
Mullvad has been working great for me on Arch Linux and Android.