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What confuses me is what they mean by “corporate VPN data containing unencrypted login details.” Unless the VPN server connects to the backend servers with unencrypted traffic through these satellites (which definitely should not happen) then this should not be possible.

That would probably be more effective as a form of protest against such technologies.

I totally misread the title 😭 That is a very deceptive title. These are problems he noticed in Windows 11, not Linux.

I think this goes well beyond “privacy tips,” though some of it is interesting to think about, for sure.

Except most extensions need to collect some data to work. Unless you want firefox to die, this isn’t a great idea.

Yes. I’ve noticed this is a lot more common for Mullvad than for ProtonVPN servers.

An AI-generated thumbnail isn’t a great sign for a cybersecurity related article. 😕

Although fortunately none of this is about some sort of backdoor into the app’s end-to-end encryption, it’s still very concerning that they can simply get all of your contacts and message recipients.

I don’t see any reason why people don’t switch to Signal. It’s just as convenient and usable, but doesn’t spy on its users

What exactly is your concern? It’s a decentralized service, so it’s not as if any of your data has to be controlled by them to use it

I would definitely encourage you to edit the link for this post to include the correct one!

And then you use a centralized service by Google to redirect the link rather than just using the link itself. 🙁

Here’s the actual link: https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security/we-need-to-go-beyond-signal-how-todays-aws-outage-shows-the-weaknesses-of-centralized-apps

Except current methods can never lead to a “superintelligence.”

Sadly University of Florida has also started becoming a sort of “AI first” university 😣

invidious.io isn’t actually an instance of invidious. If you replace your rule with “^https://www.youtube.com/|https://inv.nadeko.net/” (or any other instance: https://docs.invidious.io/instances/), then it should work. For Redlib, I replace www.reddit.com with reddit.nerdvpn.de (although reddit often blocks redlib instances from being able to access their content).

An easy way to see if services can be redirected like this is to open a link (such as a video on youtube.com) in your browser and replace it with another domain. If it pulls up the correct content on the new domain, then such a rule can work.

I also use Kagi. It has the option for AI but doesn’t shove it down your throat like other providers.

One feature I especially appreciate from Kagi are URL redirects. I can have it automatically replace parts of the URL from any search result. For example, I have YouTube results redirect to Invidious, and Reddit redirect to redlib, without me having to replace the domain myself

I use it, although not with people who are new to encrypted messaging or who I really need to keep contact with.

SimpleX has great features for the separation of pseudonyms, which is part of why I think it’s the best concept for an encrypted messaging app so far. But it’s not only for-profit, but funded by venture capital. I don’t think it’s going to last for the long term, and if it does, it’ll probably experience a similar enshitification that other services have. Supposedly they’re going to profit by allowing businesses to pay for their service, but I doubt that they’ll actually make much money from that.