This man is incorporating the same tactic that Trump has during his presidency: launch a psychopathic publicity stunt nearly every day, to get as much media coverage as possible. Negative attention is attention too, they don’t care. They just want to be talked about as much as possible and they seem to be doing an excellent job at accomplishing that.
People really do fall for this. I believe this mainly affects the elderly. Not anyone using Lemmy, but it really does exist.
Pretend to be asleep
I want to quit Facebook so badly, but I NEED to use WhatsApp. Family, friends, work even. All informal and semi-formal chats go through WhatsApp where I live.
Right. I’m still used to the parent company being named Facebook.
Makes sense. Now they can focus more on their core business. Google recently sold it’s domain registry, I think it might be the same thing.
In my opinion, the coolest project currently on IPFS is Standard Template Construct. Just no video streaming.
That, unlike your ISP, isn’t obligated by law to log the connections you make (‘data retention’). Depending on the jurisdictions.
I guess I’m at least lucky that marketplace isn’t used here primarily.
None of this will work since he needs to log in in order to watch the videos.
HTTPS, sure. But your ISP can and will create a pretty comprehensive social graph about you using only metadata (server IPs or hostnames). Where I live, all home networks basically have a static IP. Also, besides a commercial incentive, ISPs are also mandated to log your connections. VPNs are not.
While ISPs are in many jurisdictions obligated to log your connections (data retentions laws), VPN providers are not.
An ereader that supports the epub format. Getting all my books from Anna’s Archive saves me hundreds of dollars each year. If I absolutely loved the book, I buy the ebook to support the author after all.
A VPN doesn’t do much to protect HTTP connections.
Meta
I don’t know how likely that is. But I was a bit too quick in my judgement, on public networks a VPN does ass significant protection to HTTP connections. Not really on home networks, mobile networks or well-secured public/office networks though.
I honestly don’t know how much risk your data is at after leaving the tunnel. Luckily most things are HTTPS now.
Your data still travels across the internet unencrypted. It only protects you on the LAN level.
It’s not just all about encrypting traffic. Many people connect to the internet over a static IP most of the time from their home network. A VPN provides protection against tracking in this case.
I do, luckily. But I’d rather not use any Meta apps.
Annas-archive.org is a more complete collection without download limits or registration requirement.