I love that you can literally just send an envelope of cash with your account number to pay.
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#372I would love to look at Mullvad. Every time I try to connect to their website using Firefox 101 it fails with Error code: SSL_ERROR_RX_RECORD_TOO_LONG. Is anyone else experiencing this?
I had the same and found out that my router was messing with the connection. I had to deactivate the Malicious Content Filter from Trend Micro to be able to connect.
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>I would still need to pay for a cloud provider. both google and oracle offer small, perpetually free VM instances.
...in exchange for knowing who you are. (If they couldn't de-dup you via some kind of identity verification, they wouldn't be able to offer a free promo, as some asshole could then just come and generate a million free accounts and lash them together to run a botnet/crypto-mining-farm/etc on.) I believe the GP's question is "is there any public-web hosting platform that I can use entirely anonymously ; where they all…
The moment a service allows anonymous signup it inevitably gets abused the shit out of itself for spam, botnet C&C, DoS attacks and worse.
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#374Tip: This portable secure travel router supports MullVad (and Azire-VPN) out of the box: https://www.amazon.com/GL-iNet-GL-MT1300-Wireless-Pocket-Siz... Just input your Mullvad account number and it will upload all WireGuard configurations for all MullVad servers worldwide automatically. Perfect to use to connect to any unsecure Wi-Fi and drive all traffic via VPN in hotels, airports, coffee shops, etc...
I'd pay a lot of money for an Ethernet device that sits between the jack and the router that would make a tunnel for me. Is that what this is for WiFi??
No need to pay good money, just replace your router with something more configurable with OpenWRT / OPNSense / Mikrotik and set it up so that all routing goes through the VPN
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#375Earlier quoted context omitted.
Be aware, at least Nord clearly does something different with their client than with the OpenVPN files they provide ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21664692 ). When I dug into this, I found similar cases with other major VPN providers, but my notes are sufficiently out of date, they shouldn't be trusted anymore. Sometimes the differences are subtle, sometimes they're rather complex like this case. Personally,…
What cloud do you use? A lot of websites will flag any AWS or data center IP as a bot.
Thankfully I never encountered that as an issue with e.g. Amazon Workspaces.
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#376Earlier quoted context omitted.
Oh man I thought Private Internet Access was still one of the independent VPNs. I feel duped. :/
PIA before the Kape acquisition was owned by parent company London Trust Media. The owner is Andrew Lee, who was best buddies with Mark Karpeles responsible for the MtGox collapse and defrauding all the users of the exchange. Unfortunately the Japanese government let him out of jail and Andrew Lee decided to make his old friend the CTO of the company. Andrew Lee is also the guy behind the shady "sale" of the nonprofi…
Wait, Andrew Lee, despoiler of Freenode, also associated with the MtGox guy?! The weirder bits of the internet are apparently extremely incestuous.
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#377Earlier quoted context omitted.
I just paid using Bitcoin Cash (BCH), low fees and simple to integrate ;)
Cool story. Doesn't scale. Layer up.
Bitcoin Cash does currently scale up to Paypal's daily number of transactions while keeping transaction fees below $0.01. [0]
Scalability tests are underway [1] to detect bottlenecks for increasing the block size further, which should take it closer to Visa's transaction capacity.
The scalability roadmap aims for eventually supporting 50 daily transactions for each human in the planet, again keeping fees low, which is key for Bitcoin to be used as cash. Check out [2] if you want to read about the technical feasibility of this (even with today's hardware, it will be even easier in the future).
I understand the skepticism about the ability to scale Bitcoin after the Bitcoin Core team has been pushing for years for keeping block sizes low, but please let's consider facts rationally and maintain a civil discussion.
[0] https://news.bitcoin.com/bitcoin-cash-stress-test-goes-beyon...
[1] https://bitcoincashresearch.org/t/assessing-the-scaling-perf...
[2] https://blog.vermorel.com/journal/2017/12/17/terabyte-blocks...
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#378Earlier quoted context omitted.
OH MY GOD. I've had to stop watching F1 in Australia because the only app that has licensing is like $27.50 a month and I don't love it that much. This is a fantastic idea! Thanks mate!
Be aware: I share an account with someone in a country with F1TV. If you register from abroad and use your credit card, they'll see you're from AU, block your account and you'll have to contact customer services for a refund. Exclusivity deals are a cancer.
Best bet is to pay via App Store subscriptions instead of a credit card. It obscures the country so you are free to use a VPN without worrying about being banned.
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I also like that they let you download the raw wireguard config files so that you can connect without having to use their client. You can just plop them onto your filesystem and use wg-quick to get going. Since I'm also a ProtonMail user and I considered switching to them for VPN as well but their python client doesn't seem to work correctly on my Arch Linux install and it doesn't give me anything useful to debug it…
Be aware, at least Nord clearly does something different with their client than with the OpenVPN files they provide ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21664692 ). When I dug into this, I found similar cases with other major VPN providers, but my notes are sufficiently out of date, they shouldn't be trusted anymore. Sometimes the differences are subtle, sometimes they're rather complex like this case. Personally,…
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#380Wow. Hadn't heard of Mullvad before reading this, figured I'd give it a try. That is hands down the BEST onboarding experience for an app (let alone a VPN) I've had in I don't know how long. Took me maybe 2 minutes to go from no account to a working VPN connection. I love that everything is anonymous (down to the account credentials just being a randomly generated token).
You can also easily pay with better anonymity with the Strike app, https://strike.me , which abstracts bitcoin mainnet and lightning network payments behind USD, so you don't have to worry about actually holding bitcoin or managing tax implications. You just use bitcoin as a globally agnostic payment rail, masked with your local fiat, so the price volatility doesn't affect you. Mullvad even gives you a 10% discount f…
You can literally just mail them cash if you want absolute anonymity.