For some reason vpns slow it down a lot more than mobile, any privacy focused DNS I can use?
selfhost your own dns server with something like pihole and unbound
Apart of VPN and ad/trackerblockers, maybe DNScrypt, common sense, this is the best privacy tool. Linux by default is a good privacy protecting OS (at least most Distros). Privacyproblems are online, if you use Chrome and search with Google, posting in these Zuckerbot or Mustythingies, all security measures and OS cannot protect you. Use Firefox(!) or Vivaldi, search with Whoogle, Andisearch, SearX, Qwant, Mojeek, DDG or MetaGer, be discreet with your private data, use a secure email (e.g. Proton, Tutanota, Murena), do not upload private photos to Imgur (or better yet, upload nothing to Imgur)
Yeah, I use near full Foss on my linux setup. Just 1 proprietary driver
What’s dnscrypt? Is it better than VPN?
Someone I know is curious about the SPN, which says, “It’s Time to Ditch VPNs - Stop paying for out-dated technology that was never intended to protect your privacy.”
I’m not too sure, but interested in it. Opinions?
https://www.privacyguides.org/en/dns/
Why is your VPN slowing you down? Which VPN are you using? Are you using wire guard?
Used to use riseup, not anymore. Proton on all devices, have to use 1 at time coz free mode is 1 devicw
Using a free VPN and saying it’s slow, is probably the issue. Try mullvad, airvpn, or something. Pay for one month. And then test your system speed.
Every business needs to make money, so if you’re not paying any money for the service, you’re the product. So those free VPNs are monetizing your traffic somehow. So not very private
Using a free VPN and saying it’s slow, is probably the issue
I wish, free Proton is more than fast enough to saturate my bandwidth
I was considering paying for the cheapest possible windscribe plan. 3 euro for 2 countries and unlimited data, is tagt Good? Can’t really pay much because I’m a teen and parents are very anti vpns. They monitor my revolut card and I don’t have and source of income yet
I would recommend mullvad. It’s only €5 a month. They are an exceptional provider. They take crypto payments, they take payments via the mail, you can definitely avoid using your credit card.
How would mail work? Mail here is really slow. Wouldn’t there be a risk of the money being taken on the way?
Wait, I could mine on my laptop, is there any age requirement for crypto?
Check their website for details. But basically you mail a Fiverr to them. With the account number. That’s it. Yeah there’s a risk, but it’s a relatively small risk.
Mining crypto on your laptop is probably not going to be super efficient, so you’ll probably spend more money in electricity than you’re going to make in mining. But it would hide that expense from whoever is monitoring you.
Cryptography is open source, so it’s available for anyone to use, but the central exchanges probably have age limits. So you could mine it yourself with no problem. And spend it that way. Or use mail or get a scratcher or a variety of other things.
You could check localmonero.co for your local area, seeing people selling monero for local things. But that’s a lot of overhead as well.
Probably the simplest thing is just use the mail
My best bet is likely mail, I’ll buy some stamps on Monday. I don’t pay for electricity ATM so j could get something from mining. I’ll check the website
Tor Browser
I have it, just not in my use case for daily use I don’t do sensitive tasks. Just gaming
You dont need any commercial VPN provider unless you’re a persecuted minority or under a strict government regime, get off them.
You can’t verify that any of them actually comply with their no log policies and all they’re doing is aggregating people who have stuff to hide onto it.
And especially not fucking Windscribe.
And VPNs are always slow, hence not using them unless they’re required.