Seems that the Swiss legislature may pass a law requiring ProtonVPN to start banning certain domains from being access by French users (mostly illegal sports streaming sites)
For those using ProtonVPN, is the writing on the wall?
Why [email protected]?
(mostly illegal sports streaming sites)
This doesn’t accomplish what the legislature intends. It never does. For instance, in the US, Texas in all their wisdom that can’t keep an electrical grid running smooth without duct tape and bailing wire, has decided to ‘ban’ PornHub. It makes all the christofascist’s dicks hard because in their mind, they have rooted out evil and destroyed it. (See Satanic Panic in the 80s) However, their weak, little minds cannot comprehend the fact that for every technology, there exists an equal, yet undoing technology.
Do it for the children I hear them say, and I would agree in this example, that children should not be viewing porn. A better solution would be to make parents actually parent. You brought a service into your home that can be both highly detrimental and highly beneficial, and then you turn around give it all, including a cel phone, to a very inquisitive mind uninhibited, unmonitored, and uncontrolled in any manner. You’re the problem, not porn.
/end soapbox
I don’t know if it’s the same law but they’ve already said they’d move countries, anywhere with laws suitable for the service
Would they really though? Being in Switzerland is a huge part of their brand and marketing.
Does anyone have thoughts on the IPv6 privacy extensions? They theoretically could help a lot with privacy
The idea is that your device has tons of temporary IP addresses that can be used for various tasks like surfing the web.
Every single one of those temporary IP addresses has the same prefix, which traces back to you.
Its about as anonymous as adding an apartment number to your own street address.
Yes and no. The deal is your last part is your MAC. So when your extension changes they can still track you over any ipv6 connection. The privacy extension changes the last bit so you can’t be tracked over any connection.
If anything just that it will break most tracking and surveillance systems that weren’t built for the tiny proportion of ipv6 hosts.
The question is, how can get a few tens of thousands of completely random and unrelated ipv6 addresses and pick one at random for every connection I make to outside my LAN
