Mullvad or IVPN. Some VPNs like Perfect Privacy do leak your IP via DHT and other torrent features, even when full lockdown mode is on. You can search ‘torrent leak test’ to verify yours doesn’t. I found out with a 2nd DMCA warning from my ISP.
Almost every single VPN site I’ve ever come across is just shilling referral links for the highest paying VPNs. Even the privacy sites with old good articles, their new articles for the best VPNs/most secure/ETC are all the best paying referrals.
VPNs are not good for anonymity. They are good for public networks, and stopping companies that are heavy on piracy to not send you DCMA warnings when you torrent. That’s it. If you are actually doing criminal things (or are in a country where you’re treated as a criminal) they can traffic shape and find out who you are quick. Even multihop VPN providers aren’t much better.
Funny eh? If you select show only mullvad-owned servers (pretty sure those are the only ones with encrypted RAM drives) then they’re all 5eyes and a couple other 14eyes countries. No USA though. They also disconnect constantly and are slow.
Nothing, if you want. You can disable network permissions on play services. Google DDG first to make sure that won’t break the game. Depends on what the game uses play services for… if it’s some local functionality it will be fine, if it’s remote functionality then it will break.
Ironically, GrapheneOS is pretty much that (minus the hardware) unless you want to get an iPhone or Windows phone. You’ll have to have Play Services to play the games you want to play; may as well use the only sandboxed version afaik. The reason the Pixel line was chosen is because it’s essentially what iPhone is for Apple… There will be no vendor add-ons or modifications, just stock android which can be modified into things like GrapheneOS. But it’s more for security and privacy than it sounds like you need. Just keep in mind whatever you choose, cracked apps have a much higher chance of containing malware unless you learn to crack them yourself, but then you’d have no time to game.
https://grapheneos.org/usage#sandboxed-play-services
Since the Play services apps are simply regular apps on GrapheneOS, you install them within a specific user or work profile and they’re only available within that profile. Only apps within the same profile can use it and they need to explicitly choose to use it. It works the same way as any other app and has no special capabilities. As with any other app, it can’t access data of other apps and requires explicit user consent to gain access to profile data or the standard permissions. Apps within the same profile can communicate with mutual consent and it’s no different for sandboxed Play services.
ETA: It looks like there is a modified open source Play Services client called MicroG, which is basically a rewrite of Play Services that allows things to work, but things requiring payments or payments via NFC etc may not work.
I think you just want to play games without play services, not actually learn apk reverse engineering (which is a very complex skill), so MicroG is probably what you want. https://microg.org/
GeapheneOS (Pixel only) has sandboxed play services by default, with controls over location data, etc. Not sure if that’s what you’re after but I thought I’d mention it.
That’s great, I noticed ABB doesn’t track my ratio anywhere even though they require an account.
I’ve been using audiobookbay, does myanonymouse have more content?
That’s a great tip. Thanks ✌🏼
Thanks I forgot I2P had email and all the extra stuff. Do they have inproxies and outproxies or do both sender and receiver have to use the i2p service?
Can someone answer this from the “I am a criminal, if it matters” side as well?
Let’s not be biased now.
FTA: “The list of IP addresses and domain names to be blocked is drawn up by private bodies authorised by AGCOM”
Edit: You’re correct, you could run a VPN on your own server and sell access, as this would only block known VPN services.
Sure but you’d basically be scamming them as the VPN service wouldn’t work because even if you sent them the VPN installer and login it wouldn’t connect.
You’ll need port forwarding for private torrent sites so people can download from you better.
What, they gonna be the defendant and the plaintiff?
I don’t know what type of traps OP means, unless it’s software, then that’s possible.
Yup. Fuck.
Any other good services besides protonmail?
Reddit blocks access to all major VPN services (on desktop for sure) when they click a link from a search engine (maybe even navigating directly to it but I don’t do that). This has been happening for about a month now. There’s a specific page it shows that basically says “come back without a VPN.”
I don’t think it does it if you’re logged in and have cookies enabled.
Caveat: there is a simple way to bypass it, I’ll let you old.heads figure that one out.
Seriously. Lemmy is a house made of patchwork quilt, with a bit of pine sap here and there to steady the few boards.
It’s crazy to me to see so many people recommending these. I remember thinking ed2k was old when Kazaa and Morpheus came out.
I was looking at this page and it brought so much nostalgia. The days of viruses, “proggys” in Yahoo chat (I missed the AOL train), being a young teenage script kiddy on the Internet… That was the best time of the Internet for me. You could do and say anything and never felt like there was a panopticon watching you to slip up at any time.