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John Gold
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Anyone use IVPN? They were thinking about joining Nostr. https://www.ivpn.net

I have a free 3 month voucher that they gave me, but I'd rather give it away to my Nostriches.

Post your best meme and I'll pick a winner after I get get home later this evening.

Great service, accepts payment in lightning.

Because IP address can still leak. Each time you connect to the internet, your ip is blasted all over the place. You can not be sure that your vpn app handles reconnects etc safely. Safest is to use a mobile router with always on VPN that blocks internet when VPN doesn't connect. Might be overkill but if you are an activist (I'm not) you would need to be super cautious.

Privacy in Spain is not a thing. I recently stayed in a Hotel in Spain and they want to scan your ID (illegal) to send the details to the police (it's a law). But nobody cares. Tourist happily hand over their IDs and wait 2 hrs to get it back. So better don't use Hotel WiFi's, even if you connect via a VPN. Better use WiFi's at a restaurant or bar, waiters usually tell you the password, most of the time it's 12345678 or the name of the bar 😉 .

YT has become completely unusable. Need to watch a 5 min ad now before the actual content starts, can't skip. Thank god invidious exists. Question is for how long it will work until YT closes all workarounds ...

Cool, the thumb up I did on fountain and post this comment on primal desktop. Crazy.

Firefox with multi-account-containers for sites where you have a session (cookies, logins) and extensions.

Everything else: Mullvad-browser.

It will be a used Pixel 6a to try it out. Right now I still use an iphone 8 and a Samsung Android without SIM for wallets and where my identity is not needed, a "semi-private" normie phone how I call it.

That's why you use Tor only on snapshotted vm and revert when you're done browsing so that everything that might have been stored like cookies is gone next time you boot the vm. Or just use tails booted to memory from a USB stick.

Spain is a privacy disaster when checking into a hotel. Had to give them my passport for making a copy. Refused and said please jot down the details but I will not allow you to keep it for taking a copy as it is illegal. They said call police but you won't be allowed to stay here. Looks like they need to send the details to the police over night. What a 1984 shit.