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VPNs is such a shady industry, I really don't blame companies for blocking them. 99% of people using a VPN do not understand they are giving all their traffic to a random company in a jurisdiction they can't verify, with privacy policies they didn't read, operated by people they've never heard of, based entirely on marketing claims and affiliate-driven "reviews". There is pretty much zero regulatory oversight. The ow…
Many VPN providers may be shady, but none as shady as the governments and corporations that drive people to using them.
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Unless Apple would make an anonymizing VPN connection mandatory, I don't see any difference to the situation as is. As long as people can be pressured to turn off the VPN, nobody loses any customers. Additionally, I don't think paying customers are the target, since they usually provide identifying information anyway.
I don't think mandating that all traffic on Apple devices must be routed through their servers would be that great for privacy.
Traffic is sent through two independent relays: Apple sees your IP but not the destination, while a 3rd party egress partner sees the destination but not your IP, with encryption preventing either side from correlating both ends. It's some of the benefits of Tor. But of course you still need to put a lot of faith in Apple's implementation, which is the hardest part.
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I connect to my residential ISP in the USA via VPN all the time and have never had issues with being blocked for VPN use. Maybe they mean commercial VPN providers that run on the cloud?
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No obviously not. There are specialist products for this, and it's not hard to roll your own if you want. The tech is the same, though. That's the point.
> The (proposed) UK VPN ban that was recently discussed here have a definition on what exactly is a "VPN" for the purposes of the ban (basically "VPNs generally advertised to normal consumers") It’s not taking about IPsec tunnels between networkers, or a connection back to your home. It’s talking about surfshark
The point, again, is that the tech is the same, and there's no method for determining what purpose the VPN is being used for.
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In the nicest way possible: who cares? So "they" know my vile pornographic proclivities, my daily commute, and probably what color my poop was this morning. Then what? I get embarassed? Snowden showed the NSA has taps upstream, so in my book: that's over. I'm fairly convinced if your company reaches a size where it could potentially be a national security threat, the government comes knocking (Facebook, Apple, Twitte…
You may believe yourself and your actions to be ignored by the watchers, but you might still want everyone in general to be free of watchers. Both since being constantly watched is detrimental to the human condition, but also since some people may actually dare to improve society if they are not watched. For a longer argument, see The Eternal Value of Privacy , by Bruce Schneier in 2006: https://web.archive.org/web/2…
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Uploadig dj sets with comercially released music to Soundcloud is not allowed.
Given that I have hundreds of SoundCloud DJ sets bookmarked that contain commercially released music that’s obviously not true.
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Please make your substantive points without crossing into personal attack. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Yarr… when this happens to ye, it’s time to sail the high seas!
Uhhh. Unless people are now using SC completely differently from how I was using it, the media people publish on SC is far too niche to be available via piracy.
I don’t have an SC account myself. But get me a file and I will gladly torrent it for others. Some of my torrents have been active for well over a decade, and have hit ratios in the tens of thousands.