netchami

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What VPN do you use and why?

If you are a pirate VPN is an essential tool. I am trying to ascertain the popularity of various VPNs in piracy community. In this excerise, I will list several Popular VPNs in the comment if you use one of them just upvote that comment and reply the reason. If you don’t find your VPN listed add a comment with just their name....

netchami,

Am I screwing up?

Yes.

netchami,

Come on, don’t waste Tor resources for downloading pirated content. That’s what VPNs are for. Journalists and activists in countries like Russia, China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, etc. rely on Tor in order to do their work, just use a VPN for downloading, it’s also much faster.

netchami,

They recently removed it, I recommend AirVPN if you need port forwarding.

netchami,

Check out AirVPN if you want port forwarding.

netchami,

Mullvad is great. Also check out IVPN, they are kinda similar to Mullvad (they also allow for anonymous registration without an Email address and they accept anonymous Monero payments). Maybe take a look at AirVPN if you need port forwarding.

netchami,

Check this out: www.privacyguides.org/en/vpn/. It will help you make a good decision. Also, my personal recommendation: AirVPN.

netchami,

I use IVPN and I’m very happy with them. They allow you to make an account without giving out your Email address, you just get a random-generated Account ID (Mullvad does the same btw). They also allow you to pay with Monero, an anonymous crypto currency. I used Mullvad before, Proton VPN and AirVPN are great options as well.

netchami,

That’s great! All parts of the network are important.

netchami,

I run 2 nodes at my house, several nodes (including exit nodes) on different VPS providers and I use the Snowflake addon in all of my browsers. But Tor is meant for people who require anonymity and the ability to circumvent censorship, not for those who don’t want to pay for a VPN.

netchami,

NordVPN pays people to advocate for them.

netchami,

LibreTube isn’t broken, it’s the Piped instances that have issues. You just need to switch to another Piped instance in the settings. Click on the three dots, then select settings, go to ‘Instance’ and at the top you can hit ‘Choose…’ to change the Piped instance. I haven’t experienced any issues with adminforge.de. kavin.rocks also seems to work well.

netchami,

You can create an account on a Piped instance and use it to sync your subscriptions and playlists. You can also log into your account when using LibreTube on Android. Invidious also allows for account creation, but I’m not aware of any mobile apps allowing to connect to it.

netchami,

You can even self host a Piped instance. That’s what I do. It’s really nice, highly recommended!

netchami,

The biggest concern is that even if you are innocent, your data can and likely will at some point be used against you. This was proven by the Snowden Leaks. There are more than enough of these unfortunate cases, here are some examples:

phoenixnewtimes.com/…/google-geofence-location-da…

nytimes.com/…/google-surveillance-toddler-photo.h…

I can recommend Privacy Guides, it’s a website created by volunteers to teach people about digital privacy and security. It’s great for beginners.

If you are interested in the topic, join !privacy.

netchami,

Not using Windows kinda solves this problem. It also solves many other problems lol

netchami,

I have a self-hosted Nextcloud instance, but I don’t expose it to the internet, so I use Proton Drive if I need to share files with other people. I use self-hosted Immich to sync my photos from all of my devices.

netchami,

Always follow 3-2-1 backup plan for your precious photos and videos!

This is good advice.

netchami,

Why are people using this Website when you can just use Deemix on Desktop or Murglar on Android?

netchami,

I like most of those, but helix just sucks. It will never replace vi/vim/nvim. I don’t like zellij either, it’s not a proper replacement for tmux.

netchami,

Tor is not meant for torrenting, so improvements to torrenting on Tor will never be made.

netchami,

TL;DR: Use GrapheneOS, it’s by far the best.

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