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Starlink updates privacy policy to allow consumer data to train

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Re: Starlink updates privacy policy to allow consumer data to train

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Given their inherit latency, and cost; the equation for running everything via Wireguard is surly worth it.

Wireguard to where? Another ISP/VPN that can also sell/MITM your traffic just as well? Non-residential exit IPs are also very often blocked by many websites.

You occasionally get blocked, but not that often if you can putup with a few more captchas. Can't remember it ever being more then a minor inconvenience and well worth this cost.

Re: Starlink updates privacy policy to allow consumer data to train

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The objective of every technocracy is to ensconce the entire planet in a panopticon. SpaceX is not sending those internet satellites into space just for consumer internet applications. Those satellites are also going to maintain the control plane for the sensors & actuators in the future technocratic panopticon.

Yep -- https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Dome_(missile_defense_syst...

Musk has been working on that project since 2001 at least.

Re: Starlink updates privacy policy to allow consumer data to train

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post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wireguard to where? Another ISP/VPN that can also sell/MITM your traffic just as well? Non-residential exit IPs are also very often blocked by many websites.

You occasionally get blocked, but not that often if you can putup with a few more captchas. Can't remember it ever being more then a minor inconvenience and well worth this cost.

My home internet is 5G, and many, many websites are blocked or have infinite captcha loops... even well-known sites. Etsy is blocked. Reddit/Discord/Locals is blocked. Archive.is only captcha loops. Even libera IRC is blocked. Trying to buy products online often gets the order flagged or canceled as a potential bot or VPN. IPs are rotated often so I unfortunately have to share bad-reputation IPs with people who keep the addresses on global blacklists like DroneBL that are used by many sites. Even 4chan blocks most of the IPs I get because other people post CP from there.

Trying to use a VPS/cloud IP or well-known VPN provider, the experience for me is just as bad or worse.

For some, the issue is a lot worse than you think.

Re: Starlink updates privacy policy to allow consumer data to train

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post #4

The objective of every technocracy is to ensconce the entire planet in a panopticon. SpaceX is not sending those internet satellites into space just for consumer internet applications. Those satellites are also going to maintain the control plane for the sensors & actuators in the future technocratic panopticon.

Next democratic president should force them to be labeled as a public utility and regulated as such. For “National Security” reasons of course.

Banking and internet for sure.

Re: Starlink updates privacy policy to allow consumer data to train

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The objective of every technocracy is to ensconce the entire planet in a panopticon. SpaceX is not sending those internet satellites into space just for consumer internet applications. Those satellites are also going to maintain the control plane for the sensors & actuators in the future technocratic panopticon.

We need another young Kary, but using shrapnel instead of frogs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSVy1b-RyVM

Re: Starlink updates privacy policy to allow consumer data to train

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post #4

The objective of every technocracy is to ensconce the entire planet in a panopticon. SpaceX is not sending those internet satellites into space just for consumer internet applications. Those satellites are also going to maintain the control plane for the sensors & actuators in the future technocratic panopticon.

Next democratic president should force them to be labeled as a public utility and regulated as such. For “National Security” reasons of course.

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Re: Starlink updates privacy policy to allow consumer data to train

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post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wireguard to where? Another ISP/VPN that can also sell/MITM your traffic just as well? Non-residential exit IPs are also very often blocked by many websites.

Residential ISPs are well setup for monitoring home traffic (and legally required to in most places). A VPS in a different jurisdiction is vastly less likely to be good at it.

https fixes that mostly - unless your talking about metadata

Re: Starlink updates privacy policy to allow consumer data to train

#20

The most interesting data running through Starlink is Ukrainian and Russian military comms (including feeds from drones). I wonder if Musk actually plans to tap into that.

I’m going to assume that they are encrypted especially for military purposes so unless they can crack the encryption it’s useless.
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