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What the hell Proton! (r.nf)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Can someone share proton's response? I don't have a xitter account

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago (3 children)

https://xcancel.com/ProtonVPN you can find it here

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 months ago

Appreciate the alternative!

Grabbed this screenshot because I don't trust anything on Twitter to stay visible (or the platform to even be stable)

https://protonvpn.com/blog/public-wifi-safety/#:~:text=5%20ways%20to%20stay%20safe%20on%20public%20WiFi

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[–] [email protected] 133 points 2 months ago (17 children)

I don't know how effective VPNs are over a public WiFi network, but I do know it stopped Spectrum from sending me "you are downloading copyrighted material, stop it" emails once I started using one. Fuck Spectrum, I don't have them anymore, but that seems like a good enough reason to keep using one in certain circumstances.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 months ago (9 children)

On public WiFi I just vpn into my home network. The issue with public WiFi is that it can be sniffed by anyone in range since there is generally no encryption.

Although pretty much everything we do is over tls these days, and DoH helps protect against even dns sniffing. There's still at least some risk to working in the clear over a public WiFi network. At least in information gathering, what bank you use, etc.

But, there's no real benefit in using a paid vpn over one you own unless you're downloading illegal content, want to watch another Netflix region, or are in a country with heavy Internet monitoring/filtering.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Thank goodness someone explained that to me. I was startong to wonder if she was some sort of technology expert, or something.

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