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NordVPN disables features when you turn off auto-renew
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Re: NordVPN disables features when you turn off auto-renew
#222Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well https takes care of that. The hotel might be able to see that you visited a certain website but thats about it.
You have now shifted your trust from your VPN provider to certificate authorities. And, I guess, just ignore anything thats not https. Or just be okay if your hotel blocks certain ports or destinations, which I've had happen multiple times.
> You have now shifted your trust from your VPN provider to certificate authorities.
Don't you have to trust the CAs in any case?
Re: NordVPN disables features when you turn off auto-renew
#223Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Current BTC fee seems to be just over $1, not $20. Really? My Ledger app says 112 sat/byte, which comes out to $8 for me, and I'm pretty sure they were higher a few weeks ago, when I checked. Am I way overpaying? > I don't think MorphToken would work because as far as I can tell, they have no way to set a fixed amount of the destination currency. That's too bad, XMR.to was really useful for this...
> Really? My Ledger app says 112 sat/byte, which comes out to $8 for me, and I'm pretty sure they were higher a few weeks ago, when I checked. Am I way overpaying? Hm, maybe? I think those clients usually just use the average fee paid in recent transactions, which will result in overpayment if everyone else is doing it too. The real question, "how low can I set the fee and still have my tx confirmed," is given an att…
Thanks for the site! I set my own transaction fee a few times, resulting in unconfirmed transactions, so that helps!
Re: NordVPN disables features when you turn off auto-renew
#224Earlier quoted context omitted.
1) people believing long-outdated guidance about not using open WiFi networks without a VPN 2) protecting your browsing traffic from being observed by your ISP (where you may not have much choice), at the risk of it being observed by the VPN company (which you trust). 3) Torrenting without having to worry about fines, nastygrams and other annoyances 4) Bypassing geoblocking 1 + 2 is what the VPNs advertise, but I thi…
>1) people believing long-outdated guidance about not using open WiFi networks without a VPN Long-outdated? It's more important today than it was 10 years ago. That public wifi you're on is tracking your every move and correlating your devices back to you if you happened to purchase anything in the store with a credit card.
What every move? Wifi APs can only see the domain names/IP, everything else is under HTTPS.
Re: NordVPN disables features when you turn off auto-renew
#225Why are these VPNs even a thing? The only reason i would use one is to get cheaper steam keys from brasil and for that i can get a free one. From a security standpoint it is awful because you increase the number of providers you have to trust. Apart from your ISP and the server you connect to, you got a third party involved for no reason. And VPNs can not that trustworhty as shown by the leaks of logs and what not. M…
In the UK your ISP has to store your entire browsing history for a year. Multiple agencies have access to this data without a warrant. So my usecase is simply preventing my ISP from knowing what I browse and from keeping this record. I'd much rather take my chances with a VPN company than my ISP and the British government.
I never understood the details of it: So if you download 2GB from SSH, does it have to store it, encrypted, as is? Or just the IP packet headers, i.e. where from and where to, in which case it is practically useless?
Re: NordVPN disables features when you turn off auto-renew
#226Earlier quoted context omitted.
You have now shifted your trust from your VPN provider to certificate authorities. And, I guess, just ignore anything thats not https. Or just be okay if your hotel blocks certain ports or destinations, which I've had happen multiple times.
> You have now shifted your trust from your VPN provider to certificate authorities. Don't you have to trust the CAs in any case?
There are 168 root certificates in macOS and 255 in Windows.
Re: NordVPN disables features when you turn off auto-renew
#227Earlier quoted context omitted.
In the UK your ISP has to store your entire browsing history for a year. Multiple agencies have access to this data without a warrant. So my usecase is simply preventing my ISP from knowing what I browse and from keeping this record. I'd much rather take my chances with a VPN company than my ISP and the British government.
I never understood the details of it: So if you download 2GB from SSH, does it have to store it, encrypted, as is? Or just the IP packet headers, i.e. where from and where to, in which case it is practically useless?
Correct, it's just a log of IP addresses that you "visited" which is why I really struggle with it. Visiting any website can hit hundreds if not thousands of IPs, without your knowledge or any intent behind it.
Re: NordVPN disables features when you turn off auto-renew
#228Earlier quoted context omitted.
Very crappy if you want to cancel after you forgot to get new audiobooks for a few months. You lose all your credit, and they don’t say that during the cancellation process. I gifted 6 months of payment to Audible just because they avoided to inform me about that.
That's rough but on the scale of company bad practices that leans more towards being an oversight than truly malicious. I'm not saying it's an oversight but it's not on the same level as making cancellation take 10 clicks or having only phone support or turning off features when you turn off auto-renew.
Good point actually.
Re: NordVPN disables features when you turn off auto-renew
#229Earlier quoted context omitted.
When xmr.to existed, sure. Not anymore.
Morphtoken, been using them for years on and off, not vouching for them, hope it works out
As far as I can tell, MorphToken doesn't allow you to set a fixed destination amount. In other words, when going XMR->BTC you can't set or know the exact amount of BTC that will be delivered.
ChangeNOW allows that, but has a much higher minimum, .003 BTC or so. Not useful for small transactions.
And all of these services take many minutes to complete the exchange, by which time the invoice you're paying might expire. AFAIK xmr.to was the only one that did instant exchange with zero confirmations for smaller amounts.