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[–] Core_of_Arden@lemmy.ml 14 points 3 days ago (5 children)

But you do know that Tor/VPN is not really privacy, nor security? It hides your IP, but that's about it. If you still login, and give any information, and that could just be your "fingerprint" you are not anonymous...

[–] kaidezee@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

VPNs know who you are and what websites you visit, so no privacy nor anonymity there. With Tor... It's complicated. That's why we have guides like this: http://blog.nowherejezfoltodf4jiyl6r56jnzintap5vyjlia7fkirfsnfizflqd.onion/opsec.

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[–] KiwiTB@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago (7 children)

What's with the diss on Malwarebytes?

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[–] Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 12 points 3 days ago (2 children)

math is always stronger than marketing

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[–] pyre@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (7 children)

proton VPN

lol. lmao, even.

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[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It's not about what you use, but how you use it. PEBCAK Almost 100% privacy and security is offline at home, reading a book, if you bought the book with cash and not online and/or with credit card.

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[–] _AutumnMoon_@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I don't think anyone thinks WhatsApp is secure

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[–] krolden@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 days ago (3 children)
[–] somerandomperson@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 days ago (9 children)

What's wrong with Proton VPN?

[–] edel@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 days ago (10 children)

The Proton CEO is quite active in twitter and participates in podcasts. Well, one day he praised one action of the Trump administration on antitrust and a whole community attacked him for "praising Trump" when he did only a nomination for Attorney General for the Antitrust division. I highly doubt he is a MAGA supporter and listening to him for 30min on any of the multiple appearances he was on, will confirm you that. Several things concerns me on Proton, the CEO's ideology ain't one of them.

Unrelated to this, I wish people was more forgiven of Trump voters, it is not the monolithic the Left tries to portray it is. Trump sold himself as fighting the establishment, being anti-war and pro-antitrust (many small business owners supported him). People voted for him even suspecting he most likely was lying. Many people, both in 2016 and 2024, voted for Trump because Hillary was very pro-war (for instance she say she would attack Russian military directly in Syria) and Kamala proudly said she would not change anything on Biden's policy in the middle of Gaza's massacres. MAGA has many racists, many! (Democrats has is share too, but usually quieter but one can notice them at the grocery stores!) But what made Trump win was desperate disfranchised Americans with no other alternatives that promised Change. Europeans should keep quiet too... in the last elections they voted as different as they could demanding change to end up with Ursula von der Leyen for another term. Democracies in both sides of the Atlantlic are heavily ill and people, in desperation, vote for whoever promises change, independently of anything else.

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