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US says troops were targeted with location data, as senator warns ad industry is a ‘national security threat’ (www.wyden.senate.gov)
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[–] 9 points 5 months ago* (13 children)

I love my GL.iNet router. It runs OpenWRT. I swapped to it a few months ago after getting a service upgrade and having my ISP try to force an Eero upon me.

Edit: they sell mobile routers too iirc (saw your other message).

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Seconding this for anyone looking to buy one. Their pre-installed OpenWRT firmware is easy enough to use, and you can also set up AdGuard Home on some models (like a pi-hole but on your router).

    I would never, ever use the router or modem an ISP tries to stick you with. They charge you monthly for those, for one thing. I wouldn't be surprised if they had monitoring stuff on them, for another.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (9 children)

    Edit: they sell mobile routers too iirc (saw your other message).

    thank you for mentioning this. GL.iNet's mobile router didn't show up in my searches and it instantly blows my top contenders out of the water.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (8 children)

    No problem! They’ve got quite a few of them, so hopefully something there works.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (7 children)

    i wish they that they were american based or at least european or japanese; the money I've ended up flushing down the toilet on chinese mobile devices taught me the hard way that american carriers eventually ban them using technical excuses so counterfactual that the pretext is obvious to anyone who knows the tech.

    still, though, i'm highly tempted considering that it both costs less than the nighthawk m7 and has WAY MORE features/capabilities, so i should still get atleast 3-5 years of use out it before it too gets blocked by at&t or t-mobile.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (6 children)

    I've had one of GL.inet's routers for over a year now and I'm really happy with it. I surprisingly did not have my ISP barking at me when I replaced my old one with it, which was a relief. I don't use a mobile carrier for my home internet though, so I don't know if they're more picky about what you use.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    so I don’t know if they’re more picky about what you use.

    no one knows how picky they're going to be 5-ish years from now because the borders of our self-imposed & AI-driven panopticon are going to be in a state of flux for at least another decade.

    did your device come with openwrt?

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

    I hear you about the panopticon - I figured getting a Gl.iNet router is some protection, as I know what's running on it and I can keep all my network traffic behind a VPN with a killswitch. Of course, they could try to make those illegal down the road. Who knows.

    GL.iNet's devices come with their own fork of OpenWRT pre-installed. The UI is easy to navigate and it does everything I need it to, so I haven't felt any need to install OpenWRT proper, but if you want to, I believe you can easily find instructions to do so online.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    do they share the fork that they're using on github/gitea/codeberg/etc. that you know of?

    Of course, they could try to make those illegal down the road. Who knows.

    that's the clever part; they don't have to make it illegal because the american carriers are self-censoring themselves for pre-compliance and (i suspect) to minimize any controversy/publicity/awareness about it.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    They have a lot on their github, but I have no idea if it's current: https://github.com/orgs/gl-inet/repositories

    If my ISP tries banning my router, I'll be finding a new ISP. Of course, that's not going to help if they all fall in line.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    ... that’s not going to help if they all fall in line.

    i had the same thought; what will i do once they've blacklisted all alternatives?

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    This is a problem I think we need to start considering collectively. If the internet as we know it can no longer be relied upon for communication (at least not for anything of importance), how do we effectively organize? I don't have an answer, but I think we will have to come up with alternatives before the cage locks around us.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    Another recommendation for GL.iNet - been running one for a year and a half or so.

    Whole house VPN via Mullvad was extremely easy to configure, for instance. As well as setting up an isolated "guest" network for fussy and sus devices (AKA no VPN for that).

    You'll love it!

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