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Hasselhoff drifts on to stage in KITT, jumps out, and tackles Tim Cook. They then get up, shake, laugh, and take turns explaining how iCloud+ VPN makes it look like everything you do online comes from Apple.
He may sing in German as the musical guest they sometimes have at the end of the keynotes, but that’s as much flexibility as I’m willing to allow.
Is this like Cloudflare Warp then? https://1.1.1.1/
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Because Google is definitely the most trustworthy company when it comes to data governance and respecting user privacy. No chance they'd use it to put you into a FLoC-type thing, benefiting their own advertising business while shutting out competitors. Google, the engineering company, always plays second fiddle to Google, the advertising company.
I trust Google and Apple 100x more (low estimate) than I do Comcast/Verizon, AT&T, etc.
Worrying about the carriers was really hot for a while especially post Snowden, but it’s really not a genuine threat.
I think this is great, if only as a way to kill the bullshit consumer VPN business, which sells snake oil.
> I think this is great, if only as a way to kill the bullshit consumer VPN business, which sells snake oil. Having a US megacorporation kill a whole market segment and pull it into their monopolized walled garden sure seems like an improvement. After all, they pinky promise they will not ever abuse that! /s
Interesting. I thought I recalled talking about this on HN previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10355868 _-__--- on Oct 8, 2015 | parent | favorite | on: Verizon revives "zombie cookie" device tracking on... Tor as an OS-level feature may not spark the best reaction. It's been given a bad name ("deep web," silk road, etc) in mass media and many people don't understand it enough to think of it as anything…
(No snark, I really do love it.)
Enjoy the moment, future seer.
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So will this mean if I’m using Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 that I won’t get the iCloud private relay since they implement DoH as a VPN in iOS?
Not super familiar with 1.1.1.1, but I use NextDNS and it's no longer implemented as a VPN – they use the native iOS encrypted DNS feature. I wonder how iCloud Private Relay works with that.
> An big tradeoff for some is that the exit node is always chosen to be in the same geo location as the entry node. You can view this as a sop to the various on-line video providers How could it be a "sop" to video services, isn't it exactly what they want, no more no less?
What video services really want is for each user to be identifiable by IP address. This doesn't quite give them that, but it does region-lock them.
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That wouldn’t change that clicking the lock icon in your browser would show the same certificate on every website, and that this certificate was universally valid. Pretty obvious…
> show the same certificate on every website Not really, because, you can use on-demand certificate issuance. Hell, if you really want to, you can even name your certificates the same as existing certificates and the only way to detect the forgery would be to compare the actual public keys (and who does THAT). I feel like I'm writing an evil roadmap here, but, you can even do multiple root certs with different names…
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I wish I could pay for bbc iPlayer service outside old blighty. But they don't allow it.
smartdnsproxy.com - 2 weeks, no credit card needed. Works perfectly and you don't need to use a VPN, just one of their DNS servers.
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Do you have any thoughts on PIA vs Mullvad?
PIA is owned in a weird structure I don't understand in a jurisdiction where any legal agreements with my home country are, most likely, non-existant or untested. They also seem to have enormous amounts on money to spend on marketing or paying off torrent review sites. Everybody recommends them, but all of these things make me uneasy.