It looks like in terms of torrent sites

• 1337x
• rutracker
• the pirate bay
• torrentgalaxy (replaced RARBG)
• yts

Are all on the list. seems like torrentio is gonna be a big victim of this.

More info here

Yeah for sure. Maybe even something as simple as setting the network DNS to Quad9

Sounds like they would use DNS hijacking to trick the set top boxes into downloading malicious code that disables the device.

I wonder if something as simple as having a VPN active on the device or the network would mitigate this since you would be avoiding the ISP DNS.

The mindset about privacy is just all wrong. It’s not an all or nothing game. Any privacy gain is a net positive to no privacy at all.

To many people conflate privacy with anonymity or try “accomplish” privacy without understanding what they want to be private from and why.

Yeah. Rule #1 of doing illegal shit on social media. Don’t tie that account to your identity.

It an article from bitdefender. How did you not expect they would promote their service?

Doesn’t matter, the threat is still real.

It can be both an ad and useful info.

Honestly I hope it shuts down. This provider caters to racists, fascists, misogynists and the like.

Not to mention I don’t know why anyone would use a provider that was happy to warn people they aren’t trustworthy.

It sounds like they are making excuses to take their “war chest” of money for legal expenses and give themselves one final bonus. Would not be surprised if this donation request ends up being one extra final payout before they close the service and ride out into the sunset.

EDIT: lot of racists, fascists, and misogynists triggered by this comment lmao

Bro just buy an optiplex off ebay and go back to plex.

Yeah as another said, any email provider can track you. If your threat model has that as a concern then you should always be logging into your email with a vpn on.

As for GrapheneOS I think the Pixel 8 series is most recommended. MTE was a huge security boost. The staff also says do not get anything lower then a pixel 6 as they are to close to end of life.

GrapheneOS for phone. Multiple user accounts to further isolate apps.

Pi-hole as a recursive dns server with dnssec also using unbound for DoT for home network and IoT devices.

AirVPN for my daily driver devices and windscribe for other devices that may need a vpn.

Proton for E2EE mail and storage. SimpleLogin for alias emails.

Try to use FOSS apps and block trackers where I can. Feeder (RSS), Squawker (Twitter frontend), and Eternity (Lemmy app) have replaced all the more popular social media apps.

Bitwarden for password manager.

For browsers I use Firefox with some settings tweaked or Mullvad (if I’m concerned about fingerprinting).

https://eylenburg.github.io/android_comparison.htm

Totally fair. I’m still a try it before i buy it type when games cost $60+ these days.

Lol are you like 85 years old?

Open source is a term relating to software. Software is created using code. This isn’t a hard idea to track.

Software as a service is common. Feel free to read up.

Turn your vpn off, if transmission keeps downloading it’s not setup properly.

I think people assume most attackers are targeting a specific person when in reality they cast a large net and take as much as they can find.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OR8SmnVSLCg

Thats why iOS exploits are so valuable because iphones run on such a narrow band that an exploit is likely to work on all iphone users, regardless of model.

A fork has already been created by the other developer - https://github.com/FossifyX

You may want to check out AirVPN - great port forwarding implementation.

Long history of being privacy respecting and completely FOSS but they don’t do audits (which is a super big deal to some and a big reason its not recommended on pg).

Just make sure to use the wireguard client as their own client kind of sucks.

Mullvad is the gold standard if you dont need port forwarding.

You may want to look into Filen - I know they have had issues with them not using the best encryption methods. Just remember “lifetime” refers to the life of the service (which they can change at any time) and not your lifetime.

Lmao how many times are people going to misrepresent the proton email issue

Depends on your use case.

I know for me, i don’t need all the services unlimited offers.

I created seperate accounts for the services i use as they don’t allow you to bundle only specific services together (ie just mail+ and drive+ together). This ends up saving a few bucks.