Seems that the Swiss legislature may pass a law requiring ProtonVPN to start banning certain domains from being access by French users (mostly illegal sports streaming sites)
For those using ProtonVPN, is the writing on the wall?
Just more confirmation that centralized VPNs, and therefore basically all VPNs most people use, are doomed to fail in their purpose, and are sometimes worse than no VPN.
centralized VPN’s
Proton has servers all over the world. Yeah it’s one central company, but this is hardly an issue. Just don’t route your traffic through Switzerland. They have literally hundreds of other servers
I mean if you’re smart you wouldn’t route through the US either.
i would say you want to route through as many jurisdictions as you feasibly can. For example, US investigators arent going to get any cooperation from Iran or North Korea; any trail that crosses into their borders is going to be a dead end for their investigation.
Hail TOR and I2P!
The advertising for VPNs is do full of lies also.
As in why is a post about VPNs on a self-hosted forum?
Does anyone have thoughts on the IPv6 privacy extensions? They theoretically could help a lot with privacy
The idea is that your device has tons of temporary IP addresses that can be used for various tasks like surfing the web.
All of your temporary privacy addresses will be coming out of the same subnet, so it’s clear they all belong to the same people.
Ultimately the privacy extensions are just bringing IPv6’s privacy back in line with IPv4, because without the privacy extensions every single device has a separate IPv6 address based on its MAC address whereas in IPv4 most consumer networks have every device sharing a single IP.
If anything just that it will break most tracking and surveillance systems that weren’t built for the tiny proportion of ipv6 hosts.
The question is, how can get a few tens of thousands of completely random and unrelated ipv6 addresses and pick one at random for every connection I make to outside my LAN
They are related but the prefix is shared unless you at some with your own router. (Even then your prefix probably isn’t static)
Well, I would like the whole address, from hour to hour, to have no correlation whatsoever, as many random numbers as possible.
Every single one of those temporary IP addresses has the same prefix, which traces back to you.
Its about as anonymous as adding an apartment number to your own street address.
Yes and no. The deal is your last part is your MAC. So when your extension changes they can still track you over any ipv6 connection. The privacy extension changes the last bit so you can’t be tracked over any connection.
That assumes that the prefix is static which it isn’t. It also assumes that you are the only one with that prefix which isn’t necessarily the case. It makes it much harder to track compared to a static IP that is tied to your device.
If you are the only one using a static prefix then it is less useful but chances are that prefix is shared among lots of users and devices.
Firefox has a VPN. They are also releasing Thundermail.Com soon and will likely have an all in one yearly package.
I don’t know if it’s the same law but they’ve already said they’d move countries, anywhere with laws suitable for the service
Would they really though? Being in Switzerland is a huge part of their brand and marketing.
The only reason it’s part of their branding because Switzerland is notoriously respectful of privacy. If they stop being that then that’s no longer a selling point.
You people are going to hate me for thid but it’s not a privacy concern if they block piracy domains ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It absolutely is.
Cool.
In other news, Swiss law makers claim opening and reading all mail sent to make sure it doesn’t include the phrase “monty bojangles” is “not a privacy concern”
My point is that in order to block a specific domain, you necessarily need to check it against a list of all legitimate domains being accessed
But this has nothing against privacy just piracy.
Privacy is what protects you against criminal charges or being banned by your ISP
Why “notoriously” though?
I don’t know how to answer that.
I believe “notorious” is used in negative contexts, and was curious why Switzerland being respectful of privacy would be a bad thing.
no, that’s not what notorious means. It just means a lot of people know about it.
From Merriam-Webster:
especially : widely and unfavorably known
My thought is that people who dont like this will stop using proton vpn.
(mostly illegal sports streaming sites)
This doesn’t accomplish what the legislature intends. It never does. For instance, in the US, Texas in all their wisdom that can’t keep an electrical grid running smooth without duct tape and bailing wire, has decided to ‘ban’ PornHub. It makes all the christofascist’s dicks hard because in their mind, they have rooted out evil and destroyed it. (See Satanic Panic in the 80s) However, their weak, little minds cannot comprehend the fact that for every technology, there exists an equal, yet undoing technology.
Do it for the children I hear them say, and I would agree in this example, that children should not be viewing porn. A better solution would be to make parents actually parent. You brought a service into your home that can be both highly detrimental and highly beneficial, and then you turn around give it all, including a cel phone, to a very inquisitive mind uninhibited, unmonitored, and uncontrolled in any manner. You’re the problem, not porn.
/end soapbox
I’d say the problem is education. Porn is only an issue because people do not get proper sex ed. The reaction to seeing a dick sucked in front of a child shouldn’t be shame, disgust, or terror but allowing the inquisitive mind to ask what is happening.
Sex is a completely normal occurrence that is the reason we are all here. There shouldn’t be any shame or stigma in explaining to a child (or any person for that matter) what it is, what it involves, why it is done, how to safely do it, what consent is, why it is stigmatised.
Want to protect children? Educate them.
Texas in all their wisdom that can’t keep an electrical grid running smooth
Works much better than it does in other states. Lived here 30 years and I can count on 1 hand how many times the power has gone out for more than a few minutes.
lol what solar powered Texas rock have you been living under? In the last few years, people have DIED because of long lasting power outages in Texas. Back in 2020 I was one of the few lucky ones to not be affected by the snowpocalypse, and had to have friends stay with me for days because their apartment did not have electricity.
Power outage*. You’re referring to a single incident that has since been resolved. Lots of other places have outages like this multiple times/year.
I have friends who live in Houston who would like to mention the three times in the last ten years where their power was out for multiple days at a time. Usually while it is freezing or over 100F outside.
Remind me which coastal cities are so “wise” as to have a power system that’s immune to hurricanes?
Oh fuck off they lost power for over a million people last year because of a cat 1 hurricane that didn’t even directly hit them.
You not only didn’t answer my question but you were extremely rude while not doing it.
I don’t have patience for sealioning. Expect rudeness while doing that.
I don’t have the patience for people who contribute nothing to the conversation except unwarranted antagonism. Expect to be blocked while doing that.
It’s funny that the examples listed have nothing to do with hurricanes, and were actually polar vortexes from the north, and just general heat waves. Nothing “extraordinary” other than temperature.
Then you’re mistaken. I’ve already acknowledged the one time power went out due to polar vortex. Heat waves have not taken out power in Houston. The power outages in Houston are caused almost exclusively by hurricanes/tropical storms/other severe weather events that other cities would also lose power in.
other than when it happened it didn’t happen.
Okay there bud
Maybe hold on a little longer as well.
https://apnews.com/article/texas-power-grid-heat-emergency-alert-de76bc9fe6fd16e97ab6fc8d0c165065
https://www.newsweek.com/texas-power-grid-ercot-warns-outages-temperatures-rise-1898316
Certainly seems close at the very least.
I don’t have a response to someone who’s only strategy is to intentionally misrepresent my comments.
Get out of here with that logic and personal experience that contradicts the popular narrative!
Yeah? Funny how it’s even less than that for the rest of us.
Works much better than it does in other states
Might work better for you but there are plenty of other places that are much worse.
As a very tech savvy parent I have to say that setting up an inhibited, monitored and controlled internet for specific devices and users is insanely difficult. The average person stands no chance. But sure, blame the parents instead of the technology as it is sold and delivered.
Then give them dumb phones
Your notion of the modern world is terribly quaint
How so
How many internet connected devices do you think there are in a typical 2 adult 2 kid household, excluding phones? Here are TVs, tablets, Chromebooks, laptops, game consoles etc etc. Kids don’t jus have phones - mine don’t and there’s still a raw internet connection to almost all these devices.
And out of all of that only one has good controls for parents and believe me when I say this, setting it up was torture.
If you want to block YouTube to specific devices and not others its a really difficult thing to do. Especially when Big Tech is working against you - block the YouTube URLs on a Pihole and you’ll find that the play store also doesn’t work. There are plenty of dark patterns in all these things. Because these companies do not want to help by blocking access to the marketing bucks of kids.
There is no simple solution to all of it unless you either live in the past or you parent so 1984ly that it’ll exhaust you and alienate your kids from you.
So don’t give them access to every device you can put your hands on. I had one computer growing up and I didn’t die. You not being able to figure this out doesn’t obligate the rest of the world to be Sesame Street. You brought them into the world, and you are putting these devices in front of them. It is your responsibility, not everyone else’s.
My elders never hesitated to say no to me when the answer was no. They were not worried about “alienating” me in that way. They weren’t there to be my buddy, they were there to raise me. You can’t be both of those things 100% of the time. You often have to pick one at the expense of the other.
I’m not saying I support this legislation but I’m really sick of the “parents should be parenting” excuse. Parents can be doing a great job with their kids and those kids will still see porn because of the way platforms push things (not to mention the ease of access of porn, which just needs to be outright banned).
The only solution, barring well-written legislation, is to not allow your kid to have a smartphone until they’re late teenagers, and ensure their access to computers is restricted to a public room, with appropriate monitoring.
That’s my plan whenever I have kids. However, something tells me a lot of people on Lemmy will take issue with that approach.
