For some reason vpns slow it down a lot more than mobile, any privacy focused DNS I can use?

      • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
        51·
        10 months ago

        Using a free VPN and saying it’s slow, is probably the issue. Try mullvad, airvpn, or something. Pay for one month. And then test your system speed.

        Every business needs to make money, so if you’re not paying any money for the service, you’re the product. So those free VPNs are monetizing your traffic somehow. So not very private

        • miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml
          3·
          10 months ago

          Using a free VPN and saying it’s slow, is probably the issue

          I wish, free Proton is more than fast enough to saturate my bandwidth

        • sleepybisexual@beehaw.orgOP
          1·
          10 months ago

          I was considering paying for the cheapest possible windscribe plan. 3 euro for 2 countries and unlimited data, is tagt Good? Can’t really pay much because I’m a teen and parents are very anti vpns. They monitor my revolut card and I don’t have and source of income yet

          • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
            1·
            10 months ago

            I would recommend mullvad. It’s only €5 a month. They are an exceptional provider. They take crypto payments, they take payments via the mail, you can definitely avoid using your credit card.

            • sleepybisexual@beehaw.orgOP
              11·
              10 months ago

              How would mail work? Mail here is really slow. Wouldn’t there be a risk of the money being taken on the way?

              Wait, I could mine on my laptop, is there any age requirement for crypto?

              • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
                1·
                10 months ago

                Check their website for details. But basically you mail a Fiverr to them. With the account number. That’s it. Yeah there’s a risk, but it’s a relatively small risk.

                Mining crypto on your laptop is probably not going to be super efficient, so you’ll probably spend more money in electricity than you’re going to make in mining. But it would hide that expense from whoever is monitoring you.

                Cryptography is open source, so it’s available for anyone to use, but the central exchanges probably have age limits. So you could mine it yourself with no problem. And spend it that way. Or use mail or get a scratcher or a variety of other things.

                You could check localmonero.co for your local area, seeing people selling monero for local things. But that’s a lot of overhead as well.

                Probably the simplest thing is just use the mail

                • sleepybisexual@beehaw.orgOP
                  1·
                  10 months ago

                  My best bet is likely mail, I’ll buy some stamps on Monday. I don’t pay for electricity ATM so j could get something from mining. I’ll check the website

  • Saki@monero.townEnglish
    2·
    10 months ago

    Someone I know is curious about the SPN, which says, “It’s Time to Ditch VPNs - Stop paying for out-dated technology that was never intended to protect your privacy.”

    I’m not too sure, but interested in it. Opinions?

  • Zerush@lemmy.ml
    2·
    10 months ago

    Apart of VPN and ad/trackerblockers, maybe DNScrypt, common sense, this is the best privacy tool. Linux by default is a good privacy protecting OS (at least most Distros). Privacyproblems are online, if you use Chrome and search with Google, posting in these Zuckerbot or Mustythingies, all security measures and OS cannot protect you. Use Firefox(!) or Vivaldi, search with Whoogle, Andisearch, SearX, Qwant, Mojeek, DDG or MetaGer, be discreet with your private data, use a secure email (e.g. Proton, Tutanota, Murena), do not upload private photos to Imgur (or better yet, upload nothing to Imgur)

  • cooopsspace@infosec.pubEnglish
    11·
    10 months ago

    You dont need any commercial VPN provider unless you’re a persecuted minority or under a strict government regime, get off them.

    You can’t verify that any of them actually comply with their no log policies and all they’re doing is aggregating people who have stuff to hide onto it.

    And especially not fucking Windscribe.

    And VPNs are always slow, hence not using them unless they’re required.

    • eddie_of_ny@lemmy.ml
      2·
      10 months ago

      And especially not fucking Windscribe.

      Funny to come across this mere weeks after I discover Windscribe. Can you explain what you don’t like about it? Seemed fine from all the research I did, no worse than any other VPN at least