• PhilipTheBucket@ponder.catOP
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    8 days ago

    I like how the article boils down to, “Except for some isolated use cases, Tor is far superior to a VPN in both cost and safety,” and a lot of the comments boil down to “YEAH VPNS ARE GREAT GET A VPN.”

    It is okay to read the article before writing a comment, guys. In some circles, it’s even encouraged, because you might learn something.

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      8 days ago

      Except many services are very aggressive to Tor exit nodes, namely Google and Cloudflare. Everytime I just met with CAPTCHA after CAPTCHAs, and eventually I gave up on the site.

      Yeah, I should cut ties with Google but cutting YouTube on NewPipe is hard. I’m on Proton and watching YouTube is already hard.

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        8 days ago

        You may want to give Freetube a try, which may avoid that issue (especially if combined with libredirect).

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        7 days ago

        I’ve had the same experience with vpn’s requiring a captcha for every second website I visit.

    • ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      7 days ago

      Don’t just use Tor, use VPN on top of it.

      If you use tor frequently, you’d eventually get a bad “roll of dice” on the nodes and get 3 government run nodes. Its not a matter of “if” but “when”, roll the dice enough times, and the holes in the “swiss cheese” eventually line up.

      If you are using Tor, also use a VPN along with it. It might make the traffic a little slower, but its worth it in case you get 3 NSA nodes.

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        6 days ago

        Doesn’t it mean there’s only 1 node NSA has to attack - your VPN?

        Kinda renders Tor over it pointless.