One time, during the pandemic the girl I was dating did this to me while I was working, she moved on top of my lap and started kissing me. If my boss back then wasn’t an asshole it would’ve gone further.

I fucking hate it when people say that. You can’t choose how you feel

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.

Depends on the online store I guess, regardless, refunding the money always takes WAY longer

You: buys a digital thing from an online store

Store: takes your money right away with no waiting time

You: Decide you don’t want it anymore, too expensive to renew

Store: okay, you’ll get your money back in 5 to 10 business days

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

I don’t know if they even have something that advanced whichever one sees it first just signals to the others “HEY! BIG FOOD! BRING IT TO NEST!” with urgency and then the others repeat the signal until all the gatherers start getting it then they all signal to go back to the nest with it.

Fortunately, human beings have individuality and independent thought. Embrace that, use your brain to think critically about everything you see and hear. The billionaires think of us like we’re ants, cogs in a machine, brainless drones that believe everything we’re told. Don’t be the way they want us to be

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

Why does youtube suck so much? only a few years ago it was so much easier to access from anything. And now it’s way more restricted