mullvad with quantum secure encryption enabled, or proton with port forwarding turned off.
Don’t believe the bullshit about port forwarding, port forwarding is a security hole. People can maliciously plant things on your system if you have port forwarding enabled.
Qbittorrent, set it to only put traffic through your VPN’s network adapter.
Sorry…I just blacked out…Did I say anything just now? You should never pirate anything, that would be immoral.
This is gong to sound nuts, but subscriptions aren’t a problem for me, auto renewals are. I like to be in control of my finances, so whenever I sign up for something I pick a term I can live with, 1,3, 6 or 12 months, I pay, and I immediately go to the account management screen and cancel.
I don’t care if it’s inconvenient to have to think about it every so often, but I’m in control of the spending and to me that’s what matters.
Is paying via credit card with auto renewals the only payment method companies provide you? That’s pretty bad, I’d say.
Because, considering what you are having to do RN, it means that they can simply change a policy and next time you pay, you might find out the “account management screen and cancel” becomes unavailable.
There has to be a way to pay without having to give your credit card details… e.g. The payment gateway sends a request to your bank; your bank asks you for confirmation for one time payment; you confirm payment; the bank sends acceptance to request; payment gateway captures it and gives you your bill.
See, game pass I’m cool with because it’s an up-front transparent deal that you are buying time to access this library, and the library also changes. There is no pretense of “buying a copy” or whatever.
It’s nice for modern games anyway. For classic stuff that I want to have access to forever, I alreadty have access to that stuff forever. It might stink for the kids who are playing their “classics” right now, though.
Unfortunately, there isn’t really an exit plan. Buying the music outright is not worth it because of how many different artists I listen to so I will probably always be paying for Apple Music or Tidal.
It’s only 4 dollars more a month and I will have a real job to pay for it.
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