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This is such an abstract type of comedy I don’t even know how to handle it
Farewell online privacy
What happened?
Trump happened.
just get a VPN?
You can’t just tell people to ‘get a VPN (Virtual Private Network)’. Buying a VPN is like buying a house. It’s very very important. Having no VPN or having a ‘wrong’ one can seriously damage your life. Especially for Americans because their privacy laws are garbage. I am going to try explain why you should get a VPN but bare with me, I am from Germany and my English is far from perfect.
Let’s start with a simple test.
Click this link here: https://whatismyipaddress.com/
It will tell your IP adres, your ISP (internet service provider), and your location. The location might not be very accurate, but then again, it’s just a simple website. Imagine what the government can do!
So basically, everyone can find out where you live. But there is more danger. Your ISP. Your ISP logs your every move online and they are required to keep it in case the government wants access to it (or if a 3rd party wants to buy your data (yikes). They have everything. What websites you visit. How long you stay on a website. What you download. Your search terms. European laws are more subtle on this but if you are from the US you are #@*#&, especially because Trump doesn’t support the open internet. It’s scary but maybe in the future you can’t get a job because the recruiter knows your searched on ‘how to deal with depression’ or anythings else that’s supposed to be private because it’s your f*cking right. Or you get a $100k fine because you pirated a movie 15 years ago. You need a VPN. You’re dumb for not using one. but what does a VPN do?
A VPN encrypts all your data so if it were be intercepted no one can ‘crack the code’ and damage your privacy.
Usually being online goes like this (simplified): Your computer —-> ISP (—–> keeps data —–> sells it)
But with a VPN it goes like: Your computer —–> VPN (encrypts data)—–> ISP (ISP can’t see shit)
Furthermore, a VPN hides your IP address and location by giving you another IP address located in Spain for example (you can often choose from a list and change as many times as you want).
Now that you know why you should get a VPN and what is does it is important to educate yourself because people often choose the wrong VPN. VPN providers are also businesses and have to obey the law. If you choose a VPN provider located in the US then you are throwing your money away because the laws in the US shits on your privacy. If the US gov wants the provider to give all their logs they have to obey. The ISP still can’t see what you are doing online and sell your data but the US gov can interfere with your VPN provider so NEVER CHOOSE A PROVIDER LOCATED IN THE US.
I just wanted to make that very clear so my followers don’t buy false security.
There is still more danger!
Who says your VPN provider isn’t selling your data? You need to check their logging policy. Do they keep logs? If yes, what for? For how long do they keep them? Tip: Choose a provider who doesn’t keep logs
More about law
The US is part of the Five Eyes program (the worst):
The Five Eyes, often abbreviated as FVEY, is an intelligence alliance comprising Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States. These countries are bound by the multilateral UKUSA Agreement, a treaty for joint cooperation in signals intelligence (source)
There is also a Nine Eyes (bit better) and Fourteen Eyes Program (better).
You don’t want a VPN provider who is located in one the Five Eyes countries.
If you had to choose go for a provider located in a country that’s part of the Fourteen Eyes Program or even better, go for a country that isn’t part of any program!
I know this is a shitty explanation and please pardon my english but now it’s time to do your own research. Take your privacy seriously. Maybe WWIII breaks out and you get killed for liking the ‘wrong’ FB-page.
Go to this website: https://thatoneprivacysite.net/simple-vpn-comparison-chart/
Make sure that your future VPN provider both has green boxes for Privacy Jurisdiction and Privacy Logging.
I recommend ovpn.se and trust.zone. ovpn is located in Sweden so they are part of the 14 Eyes Program and they keep minimal logs. Their business ethics, however, are alright.
Trustzone is located in the Seychelles. No country can interfere and their privacy jurisdiction is the best you can get. The US want your data but needs to get it from Trustzone? The Seychelles will simply give them the finger and wave them goodbye. However, this makes this provider very appealing for people who torrent and criminals because they keep no logs (and that is how it shoud be) Also, there are almost no marketing efforts so this provider is one the cheapest)
Also, often providers such as ExpressVPN are being called ‘The Best’ on websites about VPNs but know that this is just marketing which also makes those provider more expensive (and they too shit on your privacy)
This must be the worst article you have ever read but please, please take your privacy very seriously.
EDIT: I got many people asking me which provider I use. For those who want to know, I use Trust Zone. They offer a free 3-day trial with no strings attached. But still do your own research!
I am also with Trustzone but I think you forgot to explain one of it’s most important features. It protects you when you are using someone else’s Wi-Fi.
If you are at Starbucks and you use their Wi-Fi your privacy is at risk. Anyone with ill intentions could steal your information. Especially if you are using an unsecured Wi-Fi hotspot. With a VPN your data gets encrypted so no one can steal it.
Wait, what’s going, on? Did trump destroy internet privacy with a bill or something? Where’s the news? Oh wait, why am I getting visions of Alex Jones and selling water purifiers?
He hasn’t yet but he says he wants to. And if he is serious about it it would be really easy to do. Since all our data is already recorded, as the person above explained.
Trump wants more surveillance of Muslim Americans. This in a country where internet privacy is already close to non-existent.
Trust.Zone has a free trial. Use it.
btw this post only has 11k notes? That’s quite disappointing for something this important.
Don’t reblog this post to save a life.
Reblog this to protect an entire family!
@earth-ruins @writing-prompt-s Should I get trustzone for my mobile device?
If you use public Wi-Fi, then yes. Which VPN you use is up to you, amigo. Take @earth-ruins advice. Do your own research first.
@elvesfromthedeep just brought the current situation in the US to my attention (March 30, 2017).
Sources
- Anger as US internet privacy law scrapped
- Congress just voted to let internet providers sell your browsing history
To all my friends in the US, please read this entire post. Making everyone aware of VPNs is going to be my mission. Your privacy matters. Please reblog this post.
Don’t tell me you just wanted to scroll past this. Stop looking at pictures of cats for a moment, okay? Don’t you realize how important this is? This is dangerous! ‘America, the best FREE country in the world’ my ass.
With this new law your ISP can sell your Internet history which could include passwords, usernames, religion, credit card numbers, race and much more to the highest bidder. So here is what I want you to do.
You are going to read the whole thing and before you think ’this is so important. Let me reblog this real quick and go back to admiring cats again-’ NO! Don’t reblog this. Take action first. Then reblog. Sign up for a free trial! Trust.Zone offers one (here). Yes. It might be difficult to set up a VPN for some people. But is that going to stop you from protecting yourself and your family? 30 minutes. 30 minutes is all that it takes. 5 if you know how to install software. The problem with some of you is that you see ‘difficult’ as something negative. I want you to see difficult differently. I need you to push through this stuff. You are going to protect yourself. There is nothing negative about that.
VPNs are fun and costsaving too! A VPN bypasses geographical restrictions so you can access websites you normally can’t or you could start Netflix’s one month free trial over and over again- forever. And it’s legal! (unless you use it to buy weapons etc.,)
Don’t tell yourself that you are too tired and that you will do this tomorrow. Because that isn’t going to happen and you know it. You have to do this right now. You only have to click on it.
Don’t let this/shit/life just happen to you. Take yourself seriously. Get a VPN.
Privacy is not a privilege, it’s a fundamental human right
Ok sorry that it’s so freaking long and also sorry for the language, but this is extremely important. Please reblog!
Reblogging again bc this is important
We have a VPN you should get one too
Please read.
Can you get them for your phones?
^ you can. & when you have a subscription you can use it on your phone and computer. no need for separate subs or purchases.
it is absolutely so important for safety. but one of my fave things to do with my vpn is access non-US netflix. I mean other places have all the new good place eps, all the ‘classic’ bggo eps…
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john mulaney is smack dab in the middle.
truly cannot stop thinking about this
for further consideration
largely correct, with a few minor corrections and additions.
got a bunch of questions re: the placement of John the Baptist and instead of doing a whole Molly Does Theology thing on here i will just say that JtB was COCO BANANAS. he was a fashion icon, literally lived in the desert eating bugs, refused to go into town for anything and made people come to him to be yelled at, and was such a stone cold weirdo that even JESUS “THE ACTUAL LORD” CHRIST* was like “dude you gotta … tone it down a little.”
also JtB was martyred because he basically showed up at herod’s house to be like, “HEY I GOT OPINIONS ABOUT YOUR LIFESTYLE,” (john the baptist definitely spoke exclusively in all caps), and then whipped out a CVS-length receipt to yell at herod about. herod was like, ????? i’m the king, what are you doing. i could cut off your head literally right now. and JtB was like “THEN DO IT, BITCH. I’M RIGHT.”
(anyway he did get beheaded.)
While the above is not biblically accurate (Herod had John arrested and then would have JtB orate for him like some kind of entertainment- also Jesus never told him to tone it down, lol, what he DID say was no greater man was ever born of woman than JtB) it is still hilarious and part of the mood and I support.
not to be extremely myself about this, i know it doesn’t matter, i genuinely know that, but i’m actually right and here’s why:
- herod did have JtB beheaded. the exact sequence of events was that he showed up to yell at herod for unlawfully marrying his brother’s wife & a bunch of other things that annoyed him; herod was like, “bro??” and had him imprisoned; JtB was beheaded because herod’s (unlawful) wife convinced their daughter to ask for his head on a platter for her birthday. herod was like, “weird request, but a promise is a promise,” and had him beheaded. why did she do this? because john had shown up to herod’s court to talk shit. (matthew 12:1-12)
- what i am referring to when i say jesus told him to tone it down comes from matthew, wherein JtB essentially asks why on earth, if he’s really the messiah, jesus insists on being such a vegan hippie about everything when the coming of the messiah was supposed to be a VERY dope firestorm of apocalyptic proportions, to which jesus replies: “blessed is anyone who does not stumble on account of me,” which has been fairly widely translated to mean, like, “yeah, love is good actually & and i’m not about the fiery judgment thing so get on this train or we’re leaving you behind.” he goes on to say that among those born to woman none have risen higher than JtB, but also: “yet whoever is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.”
essentially what i am suggesting is that this means it’s great that you’ve dedicated your life to extremity in the worship of god but just to be clear wearing nothing but camel hair isn’t what gets you into heaven, nobody has to do that to get into heaven, and if you demand fiery judgment before you’ll recognize your messiah then you’re not worshipping god, you’re worshipping your own fantasy. that is: be as extreme in following dictums as you want to but at the end of the day, it is god who saves you, not your camel-hair jumper.
honest to god feel like we're on the brink of civil war here in the states
if I see one more 'viva la revolution' type post I'm gonna start throwing rocks. this isn't exciting or fun this is sobering and terrifying. the president of the united states is threatening to sic the country's military on its own people. are you aware of how fucked this is? this isn't some movie or book or video game or whatever, this is real life and people are going to die.
stop acting like this is some great and powerful thing. it's not. it's ugly and scary.
I live in Minneapolis, I was at the third precinct the day before it fell. This isn’t a fun video game or fantasy story revolution, it’s terrifying. Not because there’s resistance violence or because some stores got looted- but because we stood there for hours pleading for the police not to shoot us while we demonstrated and they did anyway. When they switched from flash bangs to tear gas MPD was escalating the situation which lead to further mayhem. All the occupations without police presence have been peaceful and organized while the ones where they show up become fractured and the police feel they have free reign to open fire.
Because we’re entering a state of martial law, the state troopers brought stingrays- people are loosing their ability to document and disseminate information- a black CNN reporter and his team were arrested live on air while standing near his white coworkers who weren’t. They don’t want people to see the massive gatherings of protestors being assaulted by police and hamstringed by the gov and his cronies.
It’s not a joke or a game, it’s not your fucking meme material. It’s peoples lives, it’s George Floyd’s justice on the line with so many others who have been slaughtered by police.
physically i’m here but mentally i’m floating face down in a river
My head bonking off rocks like a pinball machine
Have you ever asked yourself: “What does the skunk say?” unmute to find out
what a good and respectful wildlife interaction, from both sides!
Really not the sound I expected but a cute one nonetheless
Onwards!