[–] 16 points 9 months ago

Also of note, some providers have data caps. I haven't looked at all providers, merely Nymvpn as I was interested. Turns out they have a 2TB/month cap. Might not be an issue for some, but might be for others.

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  • [–] 0 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    From what I understand Nymvpn uses 2-hop connection, aka your data goes through two of their servers before reaching its intended destination, versus 1-hop with most other VPNs. It's more private, but you'll sacrifice speed as a result of having to go through at least 2 servers. They even have a 5-hop mode, which I don't know, probably would be slower than tor xD

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Check the privacy policy: https://p2p.mirotalk.com/privacy

    E2EE usually implies that your connection goes through the company's server(s) before reaching your contact during communication. With Mirotalk, your connection is P2P. You connect directly to your contact. Your video stream never goes through the company's server. And the connection is still encrypted of course.

    So yes, your stream is encrypted. Honestly, if it wasn't, no way they'd be in business as encryption is probably the bare minimum nowadays when it comes to any kind of communication.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Ubiquiti is business oriented, not consumer. It'd be very foolish for them to snoop on the traffic of their business customers.

    Ubiquiti is also a traded company. Their stock would crater in lieu of such news.

    As a consumer, besides reliability, privacy is another main reason to paying extra for enterprise gear.

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago*

    For the known top trackers, it's to have more control over nefarious users such as duped accounts, banned users and potential law enforcement trying to sign up. Sure it's not a bulletproof solution to deal with bad actors but it's still an effective way. You gotta remember that these trackers are free (yet private). The admins/operators don't get paid, so last thing they want to do is waste time dealing with such users.

    At the end of the day you still have to trust them with your real IP, but it's mostly to protect themselves afaik. I obviously can't speak for every tracker out there.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I was/am in the same boat, but I quickly gave up for the following reason: Why bust my ass trying to give my business? If Lowes blocks me then f*ck em I'll take my business to Home Depot. It's their loss.

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  • [–] [S] 14 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    Totally.

    I guess the privacy advantage of a regular SIM is that as soon as you pop out the sim card out of your phone, towers can't track you anymore.

    With eSIMs on the other hand, I can never truly trust that an eSIM is de-activated? Feels like you actually just have a permanent sim card in your phone and your phone can just be tracked no matter the status of your eSIM. Or is this not technically possible?

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    Compared to regular SIM cards.

    SIMs are easier to swap if needing to switch phone, but I only see this as a convenience. I don't see why it would be more private.

    I have little knowledge on how eSIMs work, but something in the back of my mind, tells me that somehow, eSIMs are bad for privacy :(

    Anybody care to share their views on this?

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    I've been using screen for a while, and the copy/pasting just behaved like being in a regular terminal window (Debian), as in Ctrl+Shift+c to copy.

    I made the switch to Tmux a couple months ago and never looked back. The only gripe I've been having is copying text selections. I simply don't know how to make it work. There's are some shenanigans to enable copying, but somehow never got it to work, so I always end up detaching from the session, and then do the copying, then re-attach the session.

    Is there any way to make the copying work just like in a regular terminal window (Ctrl+Shift+c)?

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