SarahJamieLewis on Nostr: There are occasional ways to use VPN tech in a way that improves privacy, but they ...
There are occasional ways to use VPN tech in a way that improves privacy, but they are primarily a circumvention tool - a way to get around local censorship - unless you can be sure that both the incentives of the provider and the jurisdictions involved are more favourable to your own privacy than otherwise, then be skeptical.
Published at
2024-11-07 17:42:03Event JSON
{
"id": "f51a78b1eb0b99ad2756e07c85affcdc7e7b25d8c1a4d62b4d03312422690fce",
"pubkey": "aed322bb94e499cd0cd23bb4a6b2cc04bdb2031ab09fc08a36e3a2e355a22b11",
"created_at": 1731001323,
"kind": 1,
"tags": [
[
"e",
"d6e33e35bbfa6cf35bb696d0c7ff2715c0a14e1b7075f3153f2ed10a57853637",
"wss://relay.mostr.pub",
"reply"
],
[
"proxy",
"https://mastodon.social/users/sarahjamielewis/statuses/113442902766894726",
"activitypub"
]
],
"content": "There are occasional ways to use VPN tech in a way that improves privacy, but they are primarily a circumvention tool - a way to get around local censorship - unless you can be sure that both the incentives of the provider and the jurisdictions involved are more favourable to your own privacy than otherwise, then be skeptical.",
"sig": "ceeeb1b91c356d8400f48131e443f59a4cd8e27b8d5d15b6c531c1a0acfda77abe047221d517bab8bce91f421db0c71e9547ceab938d91eb252adc4cc8cc2bb6"
}
