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The Fishcake🐶🐾 | 2 months ago (raw) | export | reply | flag +11 
 Using VPN only shifts your egress from one party (ISP) to another (VPN provider and their ISP. If you really need the privacy, go TOR. VPN is a red herring 🫡 nostr:note14qhhg85ppew9x50vsjdfwsq75fa03424fkv4jh8xlcl96lm4lqqq0jspnt
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cavemanf16 | 2 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Tor is infiltrated by the NSA. Good enough against random scammers, but it’s not like it’s the best thing.
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verita84 | 2 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 lol Security people are funny. Basically, nothing you do will ever be good enough
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cavemanf16 | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 True. LOL
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The Fishcake🐶🐾 | 2 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Better than VPN
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Mynymbox - Privacy friendly hosting solutions | 2 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 VPN and Tor are two different use-cases.
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The Fishcake🐶🐾 | 2 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 One is for accessing private networks (VPN) as it was originally envisioned and designed, another one is to stay anonymous (TOR). Then came along marketing geniuses and decided to rebrand VPN as a security feature for accessing internet. Tech-unaware consumers bought into it, and do stupid shit under the wrong impression. Did I get it right? 😂😂😂🤌🏻🔥
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sudocarlos | 2 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Accurate. Currently doing stupid shit
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Den Yellek | 2 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 I csnt trust exit nodes so I only trust to request websites via a multi hop carrier pigeon (parcel is transferred from one pigeon to another a few times so no pigeon knows the full journey).
The pigeons eventually return a printout of the requested data and then I send a new request. 

If you truly care about privacy you can't trust anything that goes through wires. Pigeons are the only way.