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?
(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
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.
Get out of here with that logic and personal experience that contradicts the popular narrative!
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.
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.
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.
But this has nothing against privacy just piracy.
You people are going to hate me for thid but it’s not a privacy concern if they block piracy domains ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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
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.
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.
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
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.
The advertising for VPNs is do full of lies also.
Many sites got VPN IP list and just ban them. It’s more and more difficult with restrictions increasing subsequently.
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.
I like my Internet to work at at least a decent speed lol I’ll often go through 2 countries when I’m doing specific tasks but generally I just do 1 on a daily basis
