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I'm losing energy for my VPN by the day (lemmy.zip)

submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by oneser@lemmy.zip to c/privacy@programming.dev

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I turned it off for 3 days and the difference was very noticeable.

No spending 2-3 minutes switching between servers to make a website work, no captchas before reading, no false "connection timed out" or "server blocked" notices.

Is everyone having the same experience, or am I doing something wrong?

*Oh but to add, any ads which slipped through unlock ended up being obviously better targeted, which I was repulsed by :)

*Edit: it looks like turning off Firefox's own DNS resolver managed to subside many of the captcha request, including for apps which are just browser overlays. Thanks @hansolo@lemmy.today :)

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[–] eleijeep@piefed.social 19 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Another downside is that your traffic is no longer being mingled with other users on the same IP.

[–] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 4 points 6 days ago (2 children)

TBF, anybody using IPv6 is ... uniquely identifiable, at least at that layer

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

That’s kind of the point of a vpn though? Your traffic will exit the same node as lot of other traffic. Ipv6 or not

[–] eleijeep@piefed.social 3 points 5 days ago

How is that?

[–] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 days ago

Have it "scrap" websites randomly and if anyone questions it. Just say its for training AI.