Government Surveillance Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
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"The dick-pic program" or what people perceive as invasion of privacy For the full show, see https://youtu.be/XEVlyP4_11M

Almost no one cares about privacy, thats why every single VPN advertices themselves as “You can watch Neflix’ catalogs from another countries”

Pretty similar to the john oliver, ‘the gov is collecting your dick pics’ approach, which i linked

from https://lemmy.ml/c/showerthoughts

    • Mad
      4•2 years ago

      vpn gives privacy from your ISP and whoever your ISP reports to, which is often the government. as long as your vpn service is in a jurisdiction that can’t demand your data from them, and your country doesn’t make vpns illegal, it’s pretty effective.

      also i think it’s pretty clear to see that your vpn alternative is impossibly complex for the average person, and the ease of use of vpns is what people are paying extra for. perhaps someone should make an open source tool that automatically does all of this with a vpn-like interface, so you can just buy a vps with ssh already setup, give this software the credentials, and use it like a vpn. assuming that vps host gives you all the region options you want and the software is able to change them by itself

      • Helix 🧬
        1•2 years ago

        However, you’re naked in the eyes of the VPN provider and they can easily sell your data to give you away as a person of interest because you might have something to hide for using a VPN…

    • @meloo@lemmy.perthchat.orgOP
      1•2 years ago

      True, to watch Netflix you can just hire a VPS on the country you want to be, and with sshuttle easily tunnel your data to that server, but this will only work if you use Linux (if I’m not wrong, you can always use a Linux VM or WSL2 with GUI for the browser I suppose). Hiring a very small VPS for some hours a day is much cheaper.

      i don’t know what any of this means. Not asking you to explain, just an fyi lol!