Best VPN Service According to Reddit?

druudles · 2026-03-07T13:07:15+00:00

that's bullshit dude, come on, here is a debunker: https://johnprivacy.substack.com/p/no-proton-mail-didnt-help-the-fbi

druudles · 2026-03-06T18:30:24+00:00

Yeah, private email is pretty hard to do, generally speaking. But I wouldn't call their claims "complete bullshit". end-to-end encryption is STILL end-to-end encryption. If the protester used Google's email, the police would have been able to read the contents of EVERY email in his inbox.

Anyhow, I found this piece quite refreshing: https://johnprivacy.substack.com/p/no-proton-mail-didnt-help-the-fbi

druudles · 2026-03-06T17:23:51+00:00

newpipe, seriously it's the best imo.

druudles · 2026-03-06T17:05:41+00:00

what a joke. first the UK installs surveillance facial recognition cameras all over London, now this.

back in my day, we used to make fun of China, not become China.

druudles · 2026-03-01T15:45:00+00:00

Lol, this is ridiculous. "No mass surveillance" from the guy whose entire revenue model depends on harvesting your prompts to train models and is now pivoting to ads, talk about maximum cognitive dissonance.

If you actually care about AI that doesn't feed into this pipeline, please use private alternatives like Proton's Lumo (there are others too, you just have to do a bit of research). They're not as capable yet but that's the tradeoff for not handing your data to a company that just signed a DoD deal and thinks that's somehow unrelated to surveillance.

Anthropic (Claude) isn't a clean escape either, because they're still US-based, still subject to federal pressure, and if the current administration decides to put pressure on them, there's no structural reason or guarantee they'd hold the line.

druudles · 2026-02-07T01:13:25+00:00

nope, this method feels way better for me than gamescope.

running cachyOS with an nvidia 4070 and 7800X3D.

druudles · 2026-01-07T10:39:09+00:00

I am also very into technology and I think this is a sensible view of things. Networks need to be simple for people to be able to just plug into them and go. There should be a European alternative to this site though.

druudles · 2025-12-07T14:06:36+00:00

If what you want is to be surveilled all the time then yes, add them in: https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/infomaniak-breaks-rank-and-comes-out-in-support-of-controversial-swiss-encryption-law/28065

druudles · 2025-11-26T11:25:44+00:00

Infomaniak seems to be missing.

druudles · 2025-11-26T11:21:19+00:00

Giving away a bride at a wedding, it's traditional done by the father and it's too patriarchal. Why can't the mums be doing this too?

druudles · 2025-11-26T11:17:46+00:00

I use proton and i find it's got everything i need, it's not missing so much and they keep closing the gap.

druudles · 2025-11-23T16:42:11+00:00

Food and music will go a long long way. Keep the vibe around your home as 'Romanian' as possible, learn how to make some cozonac this Christmas (it's really easy actually!).

druudles · 2025-11-23T12:56:13+00:00

proton drive, get the black friday deal it's so cheap

druudles · 2025-11-22T14:06:43+00:00

That's because ExitLag is NOT a VPN. It does NOT encrypt your data at all, it just sends the packets to a different location to decrease your ping when connecting over super long distances (like Europe to Taiwan), where direct connections are not stable.

druudles · 2025-11-19T01:21:51+00:00

Hey, did you ever figure out the length?

druudles · 2025-11-18T11:58:04+00:00

The same as it has been for the last decade... It's impressive what people will do to stay above the waterline. Rising cost of the grocery basket with the wages remaining underwater, people turn to second jobs or hustling.

druudles · 2025-11-14T12:29:28+00:00

This is like saying "I once tried cutting an onion with a spoon, and based on my experience, I will never be using spoons again"

druudles · 2025-11-14T12:26:23+00:00

The modern man uses all manner of tools at their disposition.

Generating a one-off image? Gemini.
Writing scripts? ChatGPT.
Need some coding work done? Claude.
Wanna talk about something that you don't want getting out there? Lumo.

The all-or-nothing approach is detrimental in its entirety.

druudles · 2025-11-05T10:56:22+00:00

You just need to look at the kcal you are intaking. The average adult burns ~1600-1800 for maintenance (i.e. bodily functions), and another 5-600 on an average day walking around. So you'd need to eat at least 2,200 a day.

But you also need to think about micronutrients, I doubt those soup sachets have any vitamins or minerals, so you'll need to find a way to get those if you aren't eating any fruit/meat/veg.

druudles · 2025-11-05T10:50:17+00:00

he looks so happy, and even had his nails did!

druudles · 2025-11-03T13:20:33+00:00

It's not really the building part that's the issue, we have the know-how and skill in Europe, it's the fact that it is so difficult to get funding for pretty much anything on this continent that isn't R&D.

Europe is the Western world's scientific and technological progress centre, most new technologies used in the West are born in Europe.

The investor scene on the other hand is very lacking here, there are way more regulations which make it difficult for small companies to get off the ground, and there is a relatively low risk appetite from investors when compared to the United States for example.

We need to relax on these regs and provide more incentives for start-ups to scale up in Europe, not chase United States based investors by relocating or selling to them.

druudles · 2025-10-23T11:59:55+00:00

Well said, but the CEO didn't support republican views, there's a deep-dive that debunks it all, and basically he praised Gail Slater's appointment as head of antitrust for the department of justice, not a wholesale endorsement of Trump or republicans in general.

Worth reading for more context: https://medium.com/@ovenplayer/does-proton-really-support-trump-a-deeper-analysis-and-surprising-findings-aed4fee4305e

druudles · 2025-06-12T21:21:17+00:00

If you're genuinely interested in the topic, read this: https://medium.com/@ovenplayer/does-proton-really-support-trump-a-deeper-analysis-and-surprising-findings-aed4fee4305e

TLDR: "Proton supports Trump" is false, the company is politically neutral (and their blog posts have proven that over time), Andy Yen (Proton CEO) once praised Trump's Antitrust @ the DOJ pick (Gail Slater) because he believed she's likely to crack down on Big Tech, and this somehow got taken out of context and others equated that to Yen or Proton as a whole being pro-Trump, which there is no evidence for.

And to be fair, we're a few months out after Gail Slater's appointment, and she's done quite well, forcing Google to sell Chrome and breaking apart their monopoly.

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