exi

joined 1 year ago
[–] exi@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago

Having issues with it as well. Mostly when downloading things that need me to be logged in somewhere

[–] exi@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

Of all the replies, this is the first one to actually make a good point instead of random google-bad handwaving.

Thank you

[–] exi@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

No need to be sorry. English is not my first language. I appreciate the correction.

[–] exi@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

No VPN ever protects you from ad-tracking. Like literally none. That's not what they are for. VPNs protect you from someone intercepting your traffic on the way to the websites you want to visit. It protects you from malicious public wifi or a malicious ISP. It does not anonymize you in any meaningful way.

Addition just to explain: Google is tracking you on the website you visit, with the help of said website. So no matter whether you use a VPN or not, if you visit that website with or without a VPN, with all the fingerprinting that happens nowadays, they would probably just get a datapoint like "Oh, user X just moved from home internet to VPN" and that's it.

Like it literally does nearly nothing if you don't ALSO do 100 other important things to anonymize yourself. A regular user has nearly no chance to stay anonymous the moment they use a regular browser and a VPN would not help them at all.

[–] exi@feddit.de 13 points 1 year ago (19 children)

I'm super confused by the FUD spread in nearly every comment here.

Pretty much every argument boils down to "we don't trust google does what they say", which is funny because I'd like to challenge anyone to provide evidence that google actually sells any of your data. They sell advertising slots that they promise will find the right people, but your data never leaves google. No advertiser gets to see it.

This VPN service promises and has been independently audited to never log or analyze your traffic and even has built in provisions to anonymize your traffic within Google so they can't reconstruct it.

So apart from the questionable assumption that google is blatantly lying, what's the argument here? Apart from maybe missing some popular VPN Features like country selection.

Also this is for people that already pay for Google storage anyways, so I don't see the problem for the intended target audience, it's sticky an improvement in privacy for them and they get it for free. It sure as hell beats getting your traffic intercepted and ads injected into random http pages like some ISPs do.

[–] exi@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago

Pretty much every alerting system I know also has a filter option to only apply automated discovery rules to certain filesystem types.

But yes, most don't first squashfs or mounted read-only snapshots by default and it sucks.

[–] exi@feddit.de -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But it does. If the universe was deterministic, choice would be impossible because all outcomes would be predetermined.

Quantum randomness may not directly provide free will but it does exclude determinism, which would make free will impossible.

[–] exi@feddit.de 22 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I'm mostly with you except for the determinism. Not only do we KNOW that the universe is fundamentally probabilistic and not deterministic, all our technology works extremely hard to combat random errors because small electronics are absolutely not deterministic, they are just engineered to have a low enough randomness so we can counteract it.

[–] exi@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How old are you?

[–] exi@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

Are you using zfs?

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