My main question is, should we avoid VPN companies that are apart of the the 14 eyes, etc.? TIA!

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    8 months ago

    You’ll likely be fine as long as you don’t use it to send classified military material to the Russians.

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        8 months ago

        There’s no one thing you’d use for that, I imagine. You’d want a combination of many things. More than just a 5€/month commercial vpn, at least.

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        8 months ago

        If you want to be anywhere near “reasonably anonymous” on the internet, you must use TOR browser.

        A regular browser is so full of functionality and settings that make you stand out that using a VPN proxy or not hardly matters.

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          There has been numerous attempts over the years by unknown actors to essentially crack TOR by controlling nodes. There have been a few theories about who, but it has been a sustained effort over a period of years that has at times controlled up to an entire quarter of the Tor network, leading many to believe state actors and/or law enforcement are behind these man-in-the-middle attacks.

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            Genuine question, I just tried this on my phone with both Firefox and Brave (my backup browser). Why does Firefox leak so much more data than Brave? Brave pretty much only showed which number version of Android I’m running and my time zone, Firefox showed all kinds of unique data including all the sensor readings from my phone, how many cameras it has, all the hardware components, and that fingerprint reading is allowed and I have all my settings as strict as they can be. I thought Firefox was supposed to be the way better option.

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        8 months ago

        Sneaker net is the only real way to do it. If someone tries to convince you to send it online, it’s a spook. Then you pay someone anonymously to make the drop, so you don’t get picked up by another spook.