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Cake day: November 6th, 2023

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  • All of the suggestions here are good but I would not put too much stock in where you get your DNS from if your reasons are for privacy. If anything, using anything beyond your ISP’s DNS could decrease your privacy, because now you are giving info to 2 providers (DNS and ISP)

    No matter what DNS server you use, your ISP can see every single IP you connect to and doing reverse lookups is extremely trivial for them of course.

    My advice is to use a good VPN provider. Any reputable one will also provide its own DNS servers as well.



  • i cant wait for the future.

    they’ll remotely turn off your car because you haven’t consumed your daily dosage of government ordered propaganda this morning or because you didn’t pay your 10 dollar seatbelt ticket.

    when you go to buy a car, you will have to upgrade to the XS luxury package in order to not be forced to watch a 30 sec ad before turning on the car

    while you are driving, you will served targeted ads on billboards but if you look at the ad, the insurance company’s tracking device’s integrated eye tracker sensor will increase your monthly payment for not paying attention to the road.


  • you’re right about the IP thing. that’s a good clarification rather than just “spy”. i suppose it’s less dire than Tutanota not encrypting incoming mails if you use tor and vpn by default.

    yeah basically it more or less proves that swiss privacy is a bit stronger in this case vs Germany.

    on the proton encryption, i did know about this but does that apply to proton-to-proton, proton-to-NonProton, or both? if you have details on this let me know.

    either way the fact that they dont makes me feel that proton is a similar honeypot to signal and telegram, where they make a compromise with the five eyes, to give them metadata even if actual contents are safe. metadata can be much more powerful than contents often times

    in general email is just the worst protocol when it comes to privacy. sadly.