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[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The terrible irony of a for-profit company using the Anarchist A. I hate it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)
[–] akkajdh999 -4 points 1 month ago (3 children)

It's only disgusting if you are an unironic anacho-communist

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah! How dare people object to the symbols of their ideology being coopted by the very forces their ideology opposes. Do you hear yourself? 🙄

[–] akkajdh999 -5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I hear what I say and "how dare they be offended" is not what I said lol. It's just funny to me that you would be an anarcho-communist in 2024 and be offended by a stupid symbol being used, that's what I mean (almost like you never learned any lessons from the history, including the disaster of the results of communist movements)

(Now, google what AmneziaVPN is. It's a free and open source project to help people circumvent censorship in Russia, by using their own VPN server. It's not a commercial company, it's an anti-goverment project. Lol. The anarchist "A" means "we are fighting oppressing goverment".

Are you opposing the anti-goverment movement in Russia? Well, that makes sense that you would like to oppose it actually, because the current goverment is a debris of the communist tyranny...)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

disgusting is not the world, maybe more without sense

[–] akkajdh999 1 points 1 month ago

I don't understand what you mean by this but ok

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Whats with the Anarchist A? Is it anything more than reduce its meaning into an aesthetic?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Looks like it's a for profit company so take a guess...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago

Can't remember

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It’s pretty new, I’d give it a few years before trusting it.

If I’m self hosting it, then I’ll just setup wireguard.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Well, they forked wireguard go… I say their seriousness will depend on:

  • how well they maintain their fork
  • whether or not they continue to offer their self-hosted tier

I’ve been burned too many times by startups who gathered up some initial money from investors and then went all corpo once the money dried up.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The service seems kind of generic, maybe even worse than the other generic VPN services. No statements about what they log, whether they allow p2p, no mention of port forwarding, servers in only 5 countries which you may/may not want to VPN through, etc.

Not sure about the software, I guess they think it will be an improvement over OpenVPN/WireGuard which is debatable.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Looks like my telegram dealer has opened up a VPN provider startup, very weird aesthetics. Can’t say anything about the product though, I guess it’s good to have more competition in the market?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Maybe I'm just being dumb and can't find it but...its a massive red flag for a VPN not to have a privacy policy.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Looks like they

  • collect "depersonalized" data
  • they use hidden pixels for tracking
  • allow advertisers to gather info such as your IP address
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

That's a major red flag for a VPN

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

So they share "depersonalized" data with advertisers.

They user hidden pixels to track you on their website.

And they allow advertisers to collect your IP address to send you personalized ads.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

looks good on paper. idk what's behind it