Proton VPN, RethinkDNS are two good things to get.

Or if you can pay, Proton unlimited, which comes with a lot of stuff from proton, and NextDNS

Traditional Pizza IS legit pizza.

Who the hell would ruin pizza with ranch?! GROSS!

I’ve never paid even 1 cent to watch something online. Never paid for porn either.

I’m not about to start

1. I don’t know how to set one up
2. I already have NextDNS and I can make that work everywhere I go.
3. Having AdGuard for windows on both of my laptops and my 3 desktops and my server and my windows tablet already serves the purpose of Pihole plus a few extra things to block the bullshit in windows that PiHole can’t do as effectively
4. Updating a Pihole periodically involves buying and configuring a whole new piece of hardware, updating to a new version of AdGuard involves running the installer and sometimes restoring from a settings file or two.

Why two laptops and a windows tablet? One is a beefy gaming laptop, the other is a mediocre laptop that I sometimes take to wifi hotspots. The windows tablet is a different form factor, I don’t really use it much anymore

Two desktops? One for gaming and my daily driver, the other for work.

I’m not telling you what I do for a living.

I don’t have the ability to run a PiHole of my own. But I have adguard installed on my PC with its DNS protection set to put my DNS requests through Next DNS and I have my DNS settings changed to put traffic through NextDNS on all of my shit

I just said twice that everything works fine as long as “direct” connections can be made. if your torrenting client says that’s happening, everything is working fine

Port forwarding is a huge vulnerability. With proton it’s not as much of a vulnerability, but it still opens a lot of shit that should stay closed

whatever the case is, I’m able to seed without port forwarding

yes, seeding works too, with no port forwarding. With mullvad, it just works and with proton I have to enable “moderate NAT” sometimes, but seeding works without port forwarding, it always has

I’ve never used port forwarding. Everything works fine

swap proxies I have this problem from time to time with mullvad.

Please stop the political stuff

Things that are in every threat model include, but are not limited to.

Surveillance from your internet provider and advertising companies its partnered with.

Surveillance from advertising companies partnered with websites you go to and online services you use.

People online who might try to doxx you if you say something they don’t like or win too much in a game

The owner of a malicious website getting your IP address from visiting it by accident.

If your internet provider or anyone else gives you the third degree about using a VPN or any other privacy-friendly alternatives to anything, just say all but the first one

oh and be mindful of internet providers using AI to find patterns in the packets you’re sending and receiving

open brave browser > Stack of three pancakes to go to the settings > Shields menu > “Content Filtering” > Click on “show full list” > enable “bypass paywalls clean filters” > click “update lists” > back to the shields settings > Change the “trackers and ads blocking” to “aggressive” just for good measure

the way it is, it’s like whack-a-mole and if one of the mods on one of them bans people for a stupid reason, there’s all the others to go to

I disagree. Keep it the way it is without any automation like that

Brave has a filter list you can enable that works great at bypassing paywalls on news websites

Brave

I really hope the people who made or at least the ones who maintain grayjay, invidious and piped get to work on bypassing age restriction.

I really want to the internet to go back to the way it was 15 years ago, where nothing was so insanely restricted or controlled.

I hate that all the rich elites of the world are using Orwellian novels as instruction manuals

not anymore, fiddled with it, it worked without being signed in once, now it doesn’t work