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Are you ready for the day the internet splits? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 3 days ago by shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Are you prepared for the day the #internet splits?

On the clearnet you will be

Unable to watch porn.
Required to give your real name and ID in order to use social media.
Arrested for "mean tweets", "anti-government views", "liking subversive memes", etc
Only be allowed to use approved applications from Apple, Google, Microsoft, etc

On #Tor and #I2P you can still be free.

What you can do to prepare

Set your downlink speed to 10-15mbps to acclimatize yourself
Encourage app developers to host their applications on Onion and Eepsite domains. (Git repos, fdroid repos, linux distro repos, etc)
Run all applications that support SOCKS5 over the Tor SOCKS port (9050) (#Fdroid, #Signal, #SimpleX, #AntennaPod, etc)
Use bookmarks or password manager notes to have the URLs of your commonly used programs, services, and repos (#Monero, #XMRBazaar, #Pitch, #Dread, etc.)
Get used to text messages instead of audio or video calls. (Audio and video use UDP and generally give your real IP to either a central STUN server or the other peer. (it may be possible to force audio and video calls over TCP exclusively, but the latency would be high and therefore make the call unenjoyable.)

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[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Wut. My home network requires all traffic to go out through a VPN, and I run Tor ontop of that for most everything else.

Who raw dogs on the internet??

[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Almost everybody who's not you, lol You and I are basically the exceptions to the rule

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I don't think so. Definitely not in China, where almost everyone has a VPN.

And since about 10 years ago, the EFF said that Trumps change that allowed any ISP to sell their user's activity meant that effectively it created a VPN privacy tax for all Internet users in the US. Since then, I think a lot of folks have been using VPNs. That's like like 10 years ago.

And all these new countries pushing age verification will mean their citizens will join the ever-growing set of people who need to have VPNs just to sanely use the internet

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 days ago

VPN usage amongst the unwashed masses is extremely low.

The number of VPNs that allow port forwarding to properly support high-speed torrenting are in the single digits.

The number of actual trustworthy VPNs are almost non-existent.

The performance of tor over VPN is so bad that even though I could see the benefit, I would not do it.

I torrent over VPN. But that's it. The rest of my communication is TLS at best.