I just said twice that everything works fine as long as “direct” connections can be made. if your torrenting client says that’s happening, everything is working fine

Port forwarding is a huge vulnerability. With proton it’s not as much of a vulnerability, but it still opens a lot of shit that should stay closed

whatever the case is, I’m able to seed without port forwarding

yes, seeding works too, with no port forwarding. With mullvad, it just works and with proton I have to enable “moderate NAT” sometimes, but seeding works without port forwarding, it always has

I’ve never used port forwarding. Everything works fine

swap proxies I have this problem from time to time with mullvad.

Things that are in every threat model include, but are not limited to.

Surveillance from your internet provider and advertising companies its partnered with.

Surveillance from advertising companies partnered with websites you go to and online services you use.

People online who might try to doxx you if you say something they don’t like or win too much in a game

The owner of a malicious website getting your IP address from visiting it by accident.

If your internet provider or anyone else gives you the third degree about using a VPN or any other privacy-friendly alternatives to anything, just say all but the first one

oh and be mindful of internet providers using AI to find patterns in the packets you’re sending and receiving

open brave browser > Stack of three pancakes to go to the settings > Shields menu > “Content Filtering” > Click on “show full list” > enable “bypass paywalls clean filters” > click “update lists” > back to the shields settings > Change the “trackers and ads blocking” to “aggressive” just for good measure

Brave has a filter list you can enable that works great at bypassing paywalls on news websites

Brave

I really hope the people who made or at least the ones who maintain grayjay, invidious and piped get to work on bypassing age restriction.

I really want to the internet to go back to the way it was 15 years ago, where nothing was so insanely restricted or controlled.

I hate that all the rich elites of the world are using Orwellian novels as instruction manuals

not anymore, fiddled with it, it worked without being signed in once, now it doesn’t work

Why does youtube suck so much? only a few years ago it was so much easier to access from anything. And now it’s way more restricted

Telegram is not private or secure.

One encryption key can unlock the entire service

Next DNS works too, just be sure you store your logs in a secure place like switzerland or just don’t make any logs at all. You can also use protonVPN, Mullvad or iVPN to access any site like that through a proxy outside of the US

Do some research on which countries allow pirating movies and TV shows and try to stick to those

If your internet provider gives you the third degree about using a VPN just say that you don’t want advertising companies to be able to see what you’re doing as easily, or you can claim that when you play games online, you don’t want any of those people to see where you really are. “I need to protect myself from anyone who gets salty with me after they lose”

You can also claim that you were using the VPN to see what’s available in other countries on youtube, netflix and so on.

Not that I would ever pirate anything, that would be bad…or something.

You can encrypt a radio.

Yes, but that requires you and the one(s) you’re communicating with to mod some radios and then to keep those radios secret, which won’t be easy once you start using them, especially in a situation like that where the government would probably be scanning those frequencies for exactly that

scratch telegram off that list, put Session messenger there instead.

Telegram isn’t private, one guy has the master key to the whole thing

wouldn’t a cheap walkie-talkie be more practical in that situation?

That’s not secure or encrypted

yes, a lot of people were using those kinds of apps during the free hong kong protests, they go from device-to-device with no internet in between.

No idea what the app is called, but apps like those exist

there’s no benefit to any common man.

There’s only benefit to the advertising companies and governments around the world.

It’s a little something called “total information awareness” they want to know who everyone is and what they’re doing at every second of every day

Yeah, tell him all the ways that would be dangerous.

You won’t stop any crime or even any hurt feelings by doing that. You’re only going to punish people who are following the law.

Criminals can fake their details