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How often do y'all use a VPN? (lemmy.ml)
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Bit of an uphill fight with captchas everywhere. Do people here conduct all online activity over VPN whenever possible? Only for the sensitive stuff? Or perhaps the inverse because the bank already knows you? Maybe when travelling or getting around region blocking? Something else?

The one provided by my work aside, I realized that I don't have any consistent rules around using VPN. Except sometimes, you know, when downloading ISO's for my favorite distos.

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[–] 1 point 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

Again we're back to bad fear-based logic.

You're saying hardware attestation is a looming punishment for poisonin fingerprinting.

Wrong.

The enemy wants hardware attestation now, and they want it bad. Nothing you do or avoid doing can influence this because they, the enemy, are responding to their own hungers.

I repeat, there are only two valid reasons to stop prosecuting a fight, and this isn't one of them.

You are offering an incorrect model of the enemy as a nanny who will try to shape my behavior in responce to my behavior. I "need" to please the nanny and I "need" to avoid pissing off the nanny. Your argument is designed for that sentiment: nanny-pleasing.

The correct model is one based on INTERESTS. The enemy has an interest in hardware attestation regardless of what we do or don't do. They will prosecute their interests KNOWING those are deeply unpopular. Look at the Guardians Of Pedophiles party, the GOP in USA. They are unpopular. They are hated. They KNOW this. They keep trucking. Why? The INTEREST didn't go away. The interest is not socially shaped, unfortunately (or fortunately?).

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (3 children)

    If you believe hardware attestation is inevitable, then why bother poisoning the well for fingerprinting? None of that will matter once hardware attestation takes hold

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

    I apologise for a 2nd reply, I just wanted to clarify.

    What I cannot readily control (or don't know how) is the internal hunger stemming from the soul (mine or enemy's).

    But which hungers get to dominate in a public arena, I do have a say in that. So having some hunger may be inevitable, but making that personal hunger into an impositional system for everyone, that's not inevitable.

    So yea, they want hardware attestation now. They're not relaxing until they find out what we do with the fingerprinting ecosystem first. That's laughable.

    Since they're going to do what they're going to do, and since the outcome is never set in stone ahead of time but instead has to be discovered by living life, we have no reason not to chase our dreams and ambitions as much as they chase theirs. I have no reason to preemptively block or throttle my energy. I am not here to please any would be nannies. I have fears, but do not allow my fears to impact my logic. And besides I fear surveillance capitalism more than whatever else the "punishment" is promised to be.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    I admire the drive. And I am not here to discourage you. The privacy world could always use more driven people. There are tons of projects that can use more supporr, like I2P, Tor, Monero, Internet Archive, Whonix, Qubes, etc. Keep at it and I'm sure we can win.

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