selfhost your own dns server with something like pihole and unbound
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Someone I know is curious about the SPN, which says, “It's Time to Ditch VPNs - Stop paying for out-dated technology that was never intended to protect your privacy.”
I’m not too sure, but interested in it. Opinions?
Apart of VPN and ad/trackerblockers, maybe DNScrypt, common sense, this is the best privacy tool. Linux by default is a good privacy protecting OS (at least most Distros). Privacyproblems are online, if you use Chrome and search with Google, posting in these Zuckerbot or Mustythingies, all security measures and OS cannot protect you. Use Firefox(!) or Vivaldi, search with Whoogle, Andisearch, SearX, Qwant, Mojeek, DDG or MetaGer, be discreet with your private data, use a secure email (e.g. Proton, Tutanota, Murena), do not upload private photos to Imgur (or better yet, upload nothing to Imgur)
Yeah, I use near full Foss on my linux setup. Just 1 proprietary driver
What's dnscrypt? Is it better than VPN?
Tor Browser
I have it, just not in my use case for daily use I don't do sensitive tasks. Just gaming
You dont need any commercial VPN provider unless you're a persecuted minority or under a strict government regime, get off them.
You can't verify that any of them actually comply with their no log policies and all they're doing is aggregating people who have stuff to hide onto it.
And especially not fucking Windscribe.
And VPNs are always slow, hence not using them unless they're required.
And especially not fucking Windscribe.
Funny to come across this mere weeks after I discover Windscribe. Can you explain what you don't like about it? Seemed fine from all the research I did, no worse than any other VPN at least
https://www.privacyguides.org/en/dns/
Why is your VPN slowing you down? Which VPN are you using? Are you using wire guard?
Used to use riseup, not anymore. Proton on all devices, have to use 1 at time coz free mode is 1 devicw
Using a free VPN and saying it's slow, is probably the issue. Try mullvad, airvpn, or something. Pay for one month. And then test your system speed.
Every business needs to make money, so if you're not paying any money for the service, you're the product. So those free VPNs are monetizing your traffic somehow. So not very private
Using a free VPN and saying it's slow, is probably the issue
I wish, free Proton is more than fast enough to saturate my bandwidth