cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/35967051
Most people turn to a VPN for one reason: privacy. And with its verified badge, featured placement, and 100k+ installs, FreeVPN.One looked like a safe choice. But once it’s in your browser, it’s not working to keep you safe, it’s continuously watching you.
Didn’t netflix encourage vpn’s for like a decade?
I havent paid for streaming in forever, because i dont want to give art-mangling archive-destroyers my money, but that’s amazing.
No idea tbh. All I know is most streaming services block them now since they often have different content in different regions.
That seems so fuckkng tedious. Why are you paying them for that sevurity compromising bullshit? They’re absolutely selling your juicy juicy data.
Valid on the Minecraft.
Honestly I’m mostly leeching off my friends lol. And my cell provider bundles Netflix.
It’s not super tedious. Every time something doesn’t work, I just add it to my VPN exclusion list. I don’t really care if my ISP snoops on Netflix tbh.
The VPN blocking doesn’t really bother me. It’s the enshitification of streaming services that bothers me. E.g. why does every paid service now trying to show me ads.
Btw, a lot of Lemmy instances also don’t play nice with a VPN. Probably to block bots. PieFed is likely the same.
Oh honey it’s so much worse than that.
And fuck those lemmy instances? Might consider blocking communities hosted on them.
Enlighten me. What damage do you thinking they are doing by snooping in my streaming traffic? Aside from profiling me and predicting my every move lol. But even with a VPN they are still finding ways to profile me.
As far as Lemmy instances, they are likely in a tough spot. You can’t build an enjoyable platform if it’s crawling with bots.
Ours allow vpn’s, aren’t shit holes.
Media consumption and ad responsiveness are really good data.
Then they can connect this to your other shit (phone model browser data etc).
Violate you with medium certainty everywhere.
Edit: Wouldn’t be shocked if that’s why the fingerprinting on you works so well. Assuming you arent slipping too bad anywhere else.