Theres definitely some risk especially in semi-anonymous forums like Lemmy. For example Lemmy.world is blocking VPNs so they know everyone’s IP addresses and given post history etc its very easy to actually identify who’s who. Especially now with AI forensics.
That being said, as a security expert, I think it’s not always productive for casual people to be obsessed with this and you if you can you should use a VPN or a mobile network which due to how cell towers work is much more anonymous than anything else in practice (datacenter IPs work too as well as TOR but those are blocked in practice)
I don’t think they block VPNs, they just use Cloudflare which often ends up being shitty. I iust tried 2 servers from Mullvad, and it works fine.
But I think it kept blocking me when I used Lifecell SIM card, like many other websites behind Cloudflare.
At this point if I see CF page I iust leave. It’s not worth waiting to see if the captcha let’s you in (most likely not).
Oh, hey, someone here linked iknowwhatyoudownload.com and I can’t enter it with neither Mullvad nor plain Czech T-Mobile.
Theres definitely some risk especially in semi-anonymous forums like Lemmy. For example Lemmy.world is blocking VPNs so they know everyone’s IP addresses and given post history etc its very easy to actually identify who’s who. Especially now with AI forensics.
That being said, as a security expert, I think it’s not always productive for casual people to be obsessed with this and you if you can you should use a VPN or a mobile network which due to how cell towers work is much more anonymous than anything else in practice (datacenter IPs work too as well as TOR but those are blocked in practice)
I don’t think they block VPNs, they just use Cloudflare which often ends up being shitty. I iust tried 2 servers from Mullvad, and it works fine.
But I think it kept blocking me when I used Lifecell SIM card, like many other websites behind Cloudflare.
At this point if I see CF page I iust leave. It’s not worth waiting to see if the captcha let’s you in (most likely not).
Oh, hey, someone here linked iknowwhatyoudownload.com and I can’t enter it with neither Mullvad nor plain Czech T-Mobile.