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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Pi-hole for my home network. NextDNS on my phone.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Have you tested that the vpn actually works with mlb.tv? I know, as an nba fan, trying to get a vpn that works with league pass is exceedingly difficult.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I dont think piped skips in video ads, does it?

I know smartube app for android tvs works great though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I dont know. That would be great.

Its only the 2nd modification i found i needed. The other was i had to enable webauth so I could use my yubikey.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I get Norman Burg (Big O) vibes as well...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

NextDNS with Vanadium.

To me, being able to use Vanadium in webview is a huge benefit.

Using DNS to block ads is relatively simple these days.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Pretty much all their big files are free leech. Start with a few popular to build ratio.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I started by having my gmail forward to an alias email that goes to a newer more privacy focused email.

From there I would just update account when I got an email from them or the next time I used an account. It is slower then just going through all your accounts on your password manager, but its less daunting and typically the accounts you use the most are going to get updated quickly anyway.

At this point my gmail functions as a "professional sounding" alias for when I am not going to bust out my phone to create an alias for something I am doing in person.

As for something like gdrive, best practice is to have more then one backup, and encrypt what you put on cloud servers to avoid any scanning issues.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I just run the link through google translate.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The issue is that authorities were able to retrieve the private key off the server. Yes, Windscribe adjusted afterwards but, it puts their security practices into major question. If you read their response to the situation it was a ton of side stepping the issue, trying to put blame on other VPNs, or trying to act like a government getting access to one of their private keys was not a big deal.

Windscribe is fine, back when they were shit-tier I grabbed a lifetime pro subscription for $30. For the common user, who just wants to download their very legal Linux ISOs on qbit its a good VPN. I just think Windscribe gets a pass on its history more so then a lot of other VPNs.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"If you’re looking for a VPN provider that hasn’t had issues ever in their history, good luck. You’ll just end up with the ones who lie and cover up incidents."

This is the type of ignorant statement makes it hard to take you seriously. First of all its not true, and if you really believed it, why waste time stanning for Windscribe? What's your pitch? "They all suck so go with this one"

Sure, trustworthy VPNs are few and far between but they do exist. On the no port-forwarding side you have Mullvad, and IVPN and other newer ones that seem promising for now. On the port-forwarding side you have Proton and AirVPN with other newer ones that have some promise.

Even OVPN, who now has dubious ownership, has a far better track-record then Windscribe.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I think people forget how trash windscribe was for years or that they had one of their servers seized and private keys stolen in 2021.

They have made a lot of progress but its still odd how people ignore their past history.

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