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Hosting your own DNS resolver is quite simple. Suggest trying PiHole.

If you use it, use the web-app version whenever possible, the experience will be shittier but at least its not a executable application that can run arbitrary code on your device without your knowledge.

You know when a company is doing well with that many “partners”.

A high-severity vulnerability in the All-in-One WP Migration and Backup WordPress plugin exposes over 3 million websites to remote code execution (RCE) attacks

Probably a dumb question, but couldn’t they just use this exploit to remotely patch itself?

Edit; after a quick thought, I suppose Wordpress instances don’t phone home so Defiant has no idea who has a Wordpress instance running and who doesn’t.

Flight staff are obviously a very fringe example that you have chosen while trying to make a point

While I respect the sentiment you’re trying to convey, the point I was trying to make is most folks aren’t willing to upend their careers and livelihood for their personal beliefs.

Fathers/Mothers who are required to travel for work aren’t going to drop everything and starve their families all for a protest.

And if you’re a flight attendant or pilot? Or any other profession that involves international travel?

Australia is a bit of a surprise, is it just poorly cut or is there a backstory to this?

Liberals and conservatives don’t like it when you call them out on their bullshit.

It would be so funny if Sony loses this.

Ever since digital video games have released ownership has been a grey area, if the courts clarify that consumers own the source code to the games they purchase it would be devastating to many production companies.

a VPN server has its own firewall.

Be an adult, either ask her yourself or a staff member that you don’t appreciate being recorded in a private setting. If nothing changes and she continues to record you take your business elsewhere.

Is there a source to the artist or was this just - prompt for an LLM.

And anyone who takes a photo of you needs to ask your consent.

Hah, good luck when everyone has dashcams and door cams. In a perfect world this would be nice.

https://github.com/zedeus/nitter

Host your own if you’re feeling ballsy enough to test Twitter’s patience, source is still available.

Then again, good luck enforcing China to comply

I mean, can’t they force DNS providers and ISP’s to block the domain in their region until they come into compliance?

Here you go, I’ve done my part in this discussion and from what I can tell you choose to remain ignorant to do any research yourself or to accept the provided data for what it is.

As I said in my previous comment this is your choice to support a company with the initial intention of distributing malware, I will not discuss this further.

Could you have a residential static VPN as one of the wireguard profiles and have it be somewhat local to you so you could use banking apps etc on specific devices? Trying to get this to pass the wife test but if streaming or banking is affected I will have to roll back to no vpn.

Absolutely, my setup I have a catchall rule that captures the entire 10.6.0.0/24 range however I can specify the IP’s individually so if I want to put a remote device behind my WAN and not through another WireGuard tunnel I can do that.

You can kind of see that in my second screenshot in my previous comment, I have a couple devices individually behind WGC4 and my catchall rule sitting on WCG5, the router will prioritize WCG4 over WGC5.

Edit: the Asus router also comes with a built in DDNS feature, you can either use Asus’s free domains and associate your dynamic IP with them or setup your own domain, it’ll keep your A records up to date whenever your IP changes.

For example I use this script to update my Cloudflare record for my domain - https://github.com/clayauld/asus-merlin-cloudflare-ddns

I don’t understand it, if US citizens have to pay the tariffs why does Canada feel the need to do the same to its citizens.

Picked myself up an Asus WRT router (AX86U) flashed it with Merlin firmware - the custom firmware includes a feature called “VPN Director” which lets me connect up to 5 different WireGuard clients and route my devices through whichever one I choose, given that the Asus WRT router is also capable of hosting its own WireGuard server I created a VPN director rule that routes that server through one of these clients.

The VPN director has a priority ruleset, so if for example WireGuard client 5 dies it will either kill all outbound connections and wait until it’s back online or fallback to WireGuard client 4, WireGuard client 1 being the highest priority right before WAN.

I like this setup because it’s my router doing the routing, not a secondary server hosting WireGuard like Tailscale.

Edit; It also works with oVPN if you prefer that protocol over WireGuard.

CyberGhost currently has alway an excellent review in IT publications and independent benchmarks

In that very same article…

It’s Not Just Mid VPNs

Kape doesn’t just own multiple VPN companies, they also own several media outlets and other ‘cybersecurity’ software. Let’s start by looking at one of their most egregiously misleading ‘cybersecurity’ software offerings: ReImage.

ReImage is/(was?) marketed as a PC scan and repair tool. It’s actually something called scareware and it’s specifically designed to ping you with alarming messages about your computer containing multiple vulnerabilities, and prompting you to purchase a license to have their software perform the critical fixes necessary. I say ‘was’ marketed because when you go to their website, it doesn’t work. I was only able to look at their website through the web archive tool. Their crunchbase page gives the appearance that they’re still in operation, and you can still download their software off third-party websites. I wouldn’t though.

Kape Owns VPN Review Sites Too

You know what’s better than gobbling up market share of the VPN space? Gobbling up the websites that review them too, and creating your own vertical integration.

So not only does Kape own some of the biggest VPNs in terms of market share, but they also have complete control over the affiliate ecosystem that shills their subpar products onto unwitting consumers. Oh and that’s not all, they also own a middle-man company that specializes “in monetizing high-quality traffic by connecting them with the brands they need.” In other words, they own the VPNs, the VPN affiliate marketing platforms, and the VPN review websites. They’ve created an entire ecosystem that they control, all explicitly designed to go after your data and your wallet.

Here are some of the Kape Controlled entities that you may or may not have heard of before:

• Webselence
  • Affiliate monetization platform.
• VPN Mentor
  • VPN “review” site peppered with affiliate links from Kape VPNs and other owned software like Intego antivirus.
• Safety Detectives
  • Another VPN “review” website, loaded up with affiliate links from Kape-owned businesses.

Whether or not you trust a company with the initial intention of distributing malware is on you, and by using their Proxy you’re still pushing your traffic to their servers albeit in a less-secure manner, and to believe they don’t retain your data is merely laughable as they’re obliged by the Five Eyes Alliance due to their headquarters being in London and are required to retain personal information you provide them.

I don’t use Windscribe myself because they’re a Canadian company and obliged by FVEY, but at least they’re independent from Kape Technologies.