Yay, I knew it would be that super old reference!

Maybe where you work

Why would that stop them from trying to interfere in the election?

Hailey “Hawk Tuah” Welch is an influencer

Ah, OK, I’m out.

99.9% of people don’t throw trash in the street.

At least in most countries.

I agree here. It’s clear that some people here really want me to be outraged at SOMEONE, but dont seem to really understand who or why.

Also, any unlatched, unfirewalled vulnerabilities you have are immediately available to anyone on that local WiFi network. One thing VPNs may do is cause you to ignore requests from systems on the local network, which helps.

Many VPNs using OpenVPN is…fine.

The value adding is the VPN infrastructure they’re providing. You can’t just install the standard OpenVPN client and expect it to DO anything without some kind of service.

True on the HTTPS thing.

You dont need to examine the contents of http traffic to do what many services call DPI.

you can still read unencrypted traffic, like most DNS. Or even without that, you can frequently tell from the endpoint IP who someone is talking to, and what types of applications from port numbers used. Etc.

If you’re torrenting, for example, that’s pretty easy to see.

she has a reaction video to every single negative thing anyone says on TikTok

Ew.

Falling for what?

Who is she?

Millions and millions of idiots do.

Is this some highly-voted pedantry about the site not technically being called “Xitter”? Or wtf is going on in this thread…?

Networking stuff IS my strong suit, and I’m confused about what points most people here, including OP, are trying to make here. Maybe I’m just not awake enough yet.

Wtf proton what? What do people think Proton is saying and what’s the WTF part…?

No, they don’t.

Did you read the article?

It’s like people here WANT to be angry.

Outrage addiction is absolutely, 1000% a thing.

I’d be really, really surprised if a bunch don’t bother doing anything. Maybe most.

I just noticed he also mentioned sponsored ads in Amazon results and etc, which are definitely worse than in YouTube/etc videos.

I’ve cut down buying from them quite a bit, but when using the Amazon app, or web without adblock, the sponsored results have made the shopping experience SIGNIFICANTLY worse in the last 6 months.

It used to be that you’d see one here and there, but the volume of “sponsored” results has gotten ridiculous, and the quality is awful. Half of the sponsored results I see - at best - are very specifically not what I searched for. Sometimes not even close.

It’s one of several reasons I hardly buy from them anymore.

Of all the ads being pushed on us, this type seems like the least egregious to me.