How can it possibly be, that an ISP, which I’m paying for gets to decid, which sites I’m allowed to have access to, and which not?
All the torrenting sites are restricted. I know, I can use VPN, and such… but I want to do it because of my privacy concerns and not because of some higher-up decided to bend over for the lobbying industry.
While on the other hand, if there’s a data breach of a legit big-corp website (looking at you FB), I’m still able to access it, they get fined with a fraction of their revenue, and I’m still left empty-handed. What a hipocracy!!
What comes next? Are they gonna restrict me from using lemmy too, bc some lobbyist doesn’t like the fact that it’s a decentralized system which they have no control over?
Rant, over!
I didn’t even know that my router was using my ISPs DNS, and that I can just ditch it, even though I’m running AdGuard (selfhosted)
@cecilkorik @ad_on_is Encryption yes, VPNs not really.
And instead of using a secondary ISP (what a #VPN provider actually is), you should be using a proper #Anonymizing overlay network, like #Tor instead.
HideMyAss was about as clear an indictment of the whole model as you could get. Operators will not go to jail for you, so they must be unable to have enough data to get you in trouble instead.
Such overlay networks only address *some* of the routing issues though, not overall unreliability.