#BraveBrowser is installing VPNs without users' consent, even if you didn't willingly enable their #VPN service. Just stop using #Brave, it's garbage.
Edit: the services are disabled by default, but they were still installed with very little to no transparency about them towards the user, alongside all the other stuff that's often unwanted from Brave users (Pocket on Firefox is to blame too, lol.)
Lots of people saying they will get a VPN to avoid the UK’s online safety bill. I can see it won’t be long until so called democracies start cracking down on them too. If I were a VPN provider I’d be happy at the short term boom but very worried about medium and long-term legislative environment #onlinesafetybill#vpn#privacy
On Linux, if you're connected to ProtonVPN and your system crashes or gets hard reset, you may find that you can no longer connect to the internet.
This is likely because ProtonVPN's killswitch has got stuck on. To check and disable it: (on Pop!_OS 22.04 in this case, but it'll work on many distros).
ip route show
nmcli device
sudo nmcli connection delete pvpn-killswitch
sudo nmcli connection delete pvpn-ipv6leak-protection
#Russia#Anonymity#VPN#Censorship: "President Putin has signed off on legal amendments that threaten to destroy online anonymity, crush free speech, and stifle innovation. Starting this year, internet platforms must verify new users' identities via state-approved systems, before granting access. VPN circumvention advice will constitute a crime, certain Gmail use will be banned, and non-state-approved hosting companies will be rendered illegal."
"Facebook snooped on users’ Snapchat traffic in secret project, documents reveal"
Das ist vorsätzliches Umgehen von Sicherheitsmaßnahmen und eine illegale Überwachung/Spionage. Wer Meta/Facebook noch in irgendeiner Weise vertraut, der sollte sich gut überlegen, was Vertrauen für ihn bedeutet.
Re-Posting einer wichtigen Frage: Brauchst du wirklich ein VPN? Wahrscheinlich nicht, denn die meisten Versprechungen der VPN-Anbieter sind bei näherer Betrachtung nur heiße Luft. Etwas Aufklärung. 👇
A must have, if you want to browse the web without ads, trackers, malware and more. There are other browsers you could use, but with #firefox, you can install add-ons to help you mitigate all the tracking and ads. You can even install desktop only add-ons now, and supporting a engine which is not #chromium (controlled by Google) like every other major browser.
There are multiple forks available on the F-droid if you don't want to use plain firefox. This works on desktop too, I recommend #LibreWolf.
My favorite way of blocking ads, you have control over which domain the app can connect. It works like a VPN, but it does not make any outgoing connection. The bad thing is, if you want to use an actual #VPN, you can't have both at the same time and you need to disable your custom DNS.
I recommend to enable in settings > advanced options > block system apps, and individual domains too. When you open the app for the first time, it asks you if you want to block essential request for the apps to work, I recommend to enable this if you don't want apps breaking.
You android vendor may be killing the app, for this reason is necessary to add the app in the list of apps not be optimized by the system. If this issue keeps happening follow the guide from dontkillmyapp.com (advanced)
A DNS works like a translator, computers are good with numbers, but we are not good at memorizing long numbers. Computers communicate with each other using the Internet Protocol (IP), which are pure numbers. For example, your instance #IP is 104.26.8.209 but is easier to us just type lemmy.world.
A DNS is like a table where it has a relationship between keys pointing lemmy.world to 104.26.8.209, so your computer knows where is the computer is trying to connect.
Let's imagine an app is trying to connect to "https://ads-from.company.com", if you are using a DNS which blocks known domain ads it will redirect that request to "0.0.0.0" which is like sending it to a black hole. There are multiple DNS available, which different purposes, for ads, malware, porn, gambling, etc.
Have in mind that these are not full bulletproof protections, one may work better than the other, and can break from time to time. With popular services with ads, like social media, you could use alternative front-ends to their official client or website.
Here is a list of alternative front-ends and an add-on to automatically redirect to them, you have to use it with a browser and you can add as a shortcut to the home screen, better if it works like a #PWAhttps://libredirect.github.io
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In this one, #Nvidia plans to use their open source drivers as the default, we have more details about @system76 Cosmic Desktop,a nasty attack vector that can bypass your #VPN without you knowing, plus #Valve contributing to Nvidia drivers now!
Mon aîné vient de faire sa rentrée en 5ème et de gagner le droit à un smartphone qui marche, avec un vrai forfait internet (mini-mini)
Bien sûr, on a dégooglisé sa bécane, en mettant #eOS, et en prime on filtre pubs et contenus inadaptés via un combo #PiHole + #VPN (en lui expliquant le pourquoi du comment).
Concernant son #TDAH, connaîtriez-vous des applications susceptibles de lui faciliter la vie au quotidien?
🧶[#Thread] Interdiction des #VPN, permis #cyber pour l'entrée au collège, label objets connectés, transparence des algorithmes...
Les députés Renaissance ont déposé des dizaines d'amendements pour le projet de loi visant à sécuriser et réguler l’espace #numérique étudié la semaine prochaine.
En résumé :
– un VPN, c’est utiliser la connexion de quelqu’un d’autre,
– un VPN n'est utile à presque personne... sauf à ceux qui touchent les primes d'affiliation pour inonder le Web d'articles sponsorisés.
– la plupart des VPN grand public sont opérés par des sociétés aux pratiques des plus opaques, implantés dans des pays aux législations très "souples", et n'offrent pas la moindre garantie en matière de protection des données.
YouTube can't stop showing me AI deepfake ads (www.spacebar.news)