• Gunther@lemmy.ml
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    2 years ago

    VPNs have a solid use case, though of course cannot provide the anonymity of the Tor Browser. The article actually does a pretty good job of laying out the pros and cons of each, so it’s a little disappointing that the title is so click-baity and oversimplifying.

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    2 years ago

    No… I don’t. I can’t stand when this clickbaity article gets reposted because as is the case of most articles, the headline is read and the nuanced discussion within the article isn’t. For many people, a VPN is more suited to our needs than Tor Browser.

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    2 years ago

    I live in a country that blocks Tor and it doesn’t work at all without bridges. Now, I’m not sure whether the ISP can detect me using tor even with bridges (would be good to get some clarification on that) but I don’t want to put a target on my back by accident.

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    2 years ago

    I use both.

    It might be overkill, but i hate the thought of being profiled and assaulted with ads. It’s disgusting what the Internet has become.

    Fun fact, my mobile provider introduced a live ads program so every time I go the mall I get SMS messages with promotions from some of the closest shops.

    This shitty behaviour cannot be stopped neither by Tor and VPN…

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        2 years ago

        Yes, I have to send them a request by email, and they have 30 working days to respond. But this doesn’t mean I won’t be tracked wherever I go, I just won’t receive SMS messages anymore.

  • Graveyard Leprechaun@lemmy.ml
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    2 years ago

    I understand the privacy aspects of TOR, and I fully support the idea of the TOR Browser, but holy jumped-up jesus on a birch-bark canoe is it fucking slow…

    When it takes, on average, almost five minutes for ANY webpage I try to access to load, that’s just not a useable browser, imho. This is 2022, not 1995.