it’s impressive to me too since it’s free: i used to use the vpn feature heavily when showing up to work in the office was still a thing for me.

i still use the ssh server with sshfs as a cloud-like storage for uploading things from my phone and work computers like pics and for downloading media like music and videos; although i’ve been gradually weaning myself off that via social media content so that now i barely use it at all besides as an ssh tunnel.

the add blocking alone makes the effort worth while for me and i’ve gotten so used to it that i can no longer tolerate adds when i have to to use other people’s rigs; it’s makes me strangely angry somehow. lol

i created this post about how i have it setup; but this time around i’m going to replace the windows vm behind the pfsense vm with a physical AP since that’s the part of the stack that’s the most proned to breaking. i’m not to enthused about doing so because i have a high gain antennae attached the internal wifi nic that i was using as an AP, so i got GREAT signal for really long distances and even into the underground parking lot of my apartment building and the beach nearby, but i rarely ever us it as such so it’s hard justifying the headache to myself.

i’m also a pfsense user and didn’t notice this.

or atleast i was; i have to fix my pfsense router again so i’ve temporarily switch an ancient router for now.

At this point in history, it’s too late to implement identity protections. Your profile is already built, stored, and backed up. They even know your deleted edgelord MySpace account and that you unfriended Tom (you monster). I guess if you were born in a ditch without a SSN, and never signed up for anything, not even a house/apartment, you could go under the radar.

i was going to say something along these lines and also that the data they have on you has life long implications.

i used to work for a data broker and the tricks that their data scientists were able to cook up to track and predict people’s behavior was really unnerving to me.

the company’s clientele was mostly high end retail & real estate and geared towards predicting the likelihood of your next “lifetime milestone purchases” (that’s what they called it). i had access to the product; so i looked up its portfolio for me and it predicted that i was ever going to buy a house or car.

i chuckled at it back then because my salary as a software engineer at the time was a very comfortable 6 figures so it didn’t seem likely to me. 8 years later i’m scraping by working for a local non-profit, i’m still driving the same car and home ownership has never seemed further away.

how does it compare to using firefox in private mode set to delete all cookies/history before and after i start the session?

be sure hide your oil. lol

not if my destination was any place far away from everybody else, as i mentioned earlier. lol

i’m in the united states and surprised to learn that we don’t have everything here. lol

i stopped buying hardware intended for windows a few years back with none of them having a windows key and now it’s a nice reminder to me of my “sacrifice” every time i actually do see a windows key. lol

i like to sing up for them and keep delaying them for as long as possible.

i’ve also learned that they seem to use the same “we’re disappointed that you didn’t do the test” email and i suspect that they copied/pasted it from the people that they bought the take home tests from.

Everyone you knew would just be dead for thousands of years.

i’m still waiting for you to share the down sides of doing this. lol

i stopped using mine because i kept accidentally trigger it every single time i intended to type something.

i was a software engineer at the time, so it was particularly annoying to me.

Oh cool, guess which age group I’m in:

same here and i wish i could use it for aid somehow. lol

cctv can be free if you’re use free open source software like motion or linux.

that content comes from niches that the people of fediverse try to avoid.

westerners seem to think so; how many times have you been told to shut up about gaza?

We’re never going to know what they intend to do until they do it, but they’ve given us an indication of what they think and we should believe it

A company’s CEO gets to determine the path their company takes and the tweet is indicative of where he plans to steer proton.

I do not use Windows and I do everything in my power to use non American phones.

The difference is that proton’s founder voiced support whereas Microsoft has always had a relationship w my govt and it’s dragnet for the Gazan genocide is quiet.

who do you make of proton’s support for trump?

firefox makes #1, #4 & #5 easy with tabs & profile manager and #3 sounds clever; thanks for that.