So which VPN are we switching to?

[gildilinie@beige.party]

@fluffy you like hide.me ?

[jase@mastodon.art]

@gildilinie @fluffy my few qualms with it honestly is well the company name eVenture, that doesn't sound very inviting nor does it sound inviting all the buzz word best vpn fastest in the world and so on. It seems a decent option besides that if there's good news about them, just I don't like all the buzz words and what a company name

[gildilinie@beige.party]

@jase @fluffy (stockholder voice) eventure. its an electronic venture. *clicks to next slide*

[fluffy@plush.city]

@gildilinie @jase yeah the company name is super generic, but I've been happy with the VPN itself.

[gildilinie@beige.party]

@passocacornio they do accept doge but I feel like that's kinda par for the course...

[rib@fedi.rib.gay]

@gildilinie IIRC Proton only turned over email data (which they kinda have to store being an email service, given email is inherently insecure), not VPN logs (which they don't store apparently). the trump donation is disappointing though.

Heard rumours that AirVPN is linked to organised crime but that could just be racism given they are Italian.

Cryptostorm might be an option, not heard much about them but they seem decent.

[jase@mastodon.art]

@gildilinie and the amount of new .social accounts advertising their very not sus VPNs lol

[lunadragofelis@void.lgbt]

@empathicqubit @gildilinie no

[icewolf@masto.brightfur.net]

@Rib @gildilinie Honestly even if they /were/ linked to organized crime... I'd probably trust them more than an ISP. >,,>

The mafia might break your legs for trying to stiff them, but they /probably/ aren't gonna come break your legs for getting off to The Wrong Kind Of Porn halfway around the planet

[icewolf@masto.brightfur.net]

@gildilinie @Rib ah yes, the milfia </j>

[gildilinie@beige.party]

@IceWolf seriously though similar argument as "what if its a government spook honeypot for the CIA"

ok i guess? let me torrent some bits

[icewolf@masto.brightfur.net]

@gildilinie now the CIA I'd be concerned about, because we /are/ in the US and they'd apply to us...

but that probably doesn't matter as much if you're somewhere else!

Unless they just ship all their info off to your government, which might actually be pretty likely.

[icewolf@masto.brightfur.net]

@gildilinie doesn't really matter for torrenting though

probably more important for Wrong Kind Of Porn stuff or political-dissent stuff

[icewolf@masto.brightfur.net]

@gildilinie haha honestly yeah

"oh no, chinese government spying!" well, it's better than the US government spying,

[gildilinie@beige.party]

@IceWolf im in canada. that makes shit that might be a chinese honeypot more appealing...

[gildilinie@beige.party]

@IceWolf but honestly is the CIA gonna divulge the Master List and blow up their honeypot op to get me? maybe. i am transgender

[icewolf@masto.brightfur.net]

@gildilinie haha good point...

I was thinking less "Master List" and more "regularly gives various governments info on /all/ their own citizens, and the other governments probably do the same back, to get around any and all "you can't spy on your own citizens that'd be blatantly dystopian" laws"

[gildilinie@beige.party]

@IceWolf like we've seen this go down. The fbi built that anonymous phone provider for drug dealers and they used it to bust a bunch of organized crime. The problem is once you use it, the honeypot is burned

[icewolf@masto.brightfur.net]

@gildilinie oh right, yeah, I somehow forgot the whole "using a specific honeypot, rather than their more general Wiretap Everything" thing

yeahh

[gildilinie@beige.party]

@IceWolf so its highly unlikely they'd burn a honeypot to bust me on getting around the soccer game streaming block