The news is kind blowing this up bigger than it really is. But I find this as a good thing because I've noticed a few people FINALLY taking the advice I've been giving for years now, and that's to freeze your credit at the big bureaus and some, if not all, of the smaller ones.

That being said, I checked this data dump for my own data as well as a bunch of friends and family. Not a single person I checked was in it... Which is why I'm not finding this breach to be that frightening personally. The ATT breach was way worse. Also Krebs posted on this today... A good read for anyone interested. Main thing I took from it was a large number of these entries belong to people who have passed away already.

I've been doing this for a while now with opnsense being what masks the whole network behind the mullvad VPN.

Pros:

• Even fresh new devices that have all that crap junkware installed get routed through the VPN, meaning no tracking to you immediately (unless they sniff the rest of the network and relay your network AP I guess)
• one device instead of many, leaving extra devices available to use for a single mullvad account (limited to 5 devices, at least for wireguard)
• if using wireguard, you honestly won't be hit with network performance issues. Just don't choose a server across the world from you. I chose one in the same country as myself and get an average 95-97% of my internet speed, and that's because I also have IDS/IPS enabled

Cons:

• as others mentioned, increase captcha annoyances
• some banks may lock your account if you try to log in with the VPN
• if the VPN server goes down, the whole network will. This may be a good thing since your don't want traffic to leak, but just pointing out you now have another single point of failure outside your ISP
• when someone's hoarding the entire VPN server you're connected to, you'll probably witness a slowdown

That all being said, if you're not very technically savvy on the networking side or haven't ever setup a custom router/firewall, this will be a pain. But it you want to learn something new and are up for the challenge, eventually it gets down to almost never having to worry about it. I've been doing it for a long time now, so for me personally, I've gotten to the point of only needing to login to the firewall for a VPN setting update or server change maybe once a month

What is that weird >>=== symbol? Looks like a cross breed between C and JavaScript here.

Remember, you can always opt out of sending any technical or usage data to Firefox.

How about you show you respect user privacy by making it an opt-in...?

Feels like no matter where I turn, even the "privacy friendly" options turn away from privacy eventually.

Even if a game doesn't look like it'll work based on protondb, try it anyway. Many times I've had games that were marked as low ratings start up without any changes lol. I remember even when d4 beta came out, I saw people struggling to install and play it on the first weekend... Worked out of the box for me.

I'd do my part in buying games from them more if they didn't block my home network from their website lol. Yes it's behind a VPN, and no I'm not turning it off to give up my privacy just to buy something I can get from stores that won't block me.

I honestly used to buy games from them a lot, but once their website became inaccessible, I sorta forgot about them. Surely I'm not the only one right...?

If you have a custom DNS, be sure to block all the relay domains they use and block the respective ports from external access. Even if you disable the settings to avoid relays, they don't acknowledge them and continue to try and phone home somewhere. Just checked the latest version on my phone, which has no relay setting configured, before commenting on this and sure enough, still true. Just logged an entry to rs-ny.rustdesk.com on my DNS, which of course was blocked. Desktop app has an option to disable them if I recall, but it never worked for me.

That out of the way, it is a very good local network software for remote access. Way faster than the alternatives I've tried.

How did I not know websites did this. Here I was always trying to guess the urls a few times before giving up lol. Today I learned...

Thanks for the extension suggestion too!

Even if it's removed from fdroid because they want to close source it, I assume my current installations of their apps would be unaffected - just become stale and obsolete over time since they won't get updates... But as they're offline anyway, not too concerned in the short term. Hopefully the company respects the privacy amd care of the open source community and won't take that away from us, though. One way to find out.

I wish there were some descriptions per provider with the ratings. Mullvad gets constant tests by third party against their network and has proven many times they have a no log policy that's working, yet they got a 4 out of 5...

With only numbers and generic descriptions that don't quite match the truth, feels like this sheet is a little misleading. Also, I find it ironic that it's on Google sheets.

I personally prefer NoScript not for just the privacy stuff, but for the security of knowing that an accidental click to a malicious site using some zeroday JavaScript exploit won't kick in like it would, had it not been default blocked.

My NoScript profile is also fairly populated with things I've trusted over the years, so it's really only new websites that require JavaScript that I have to worry about.

Maybe just me being over cautious, but just keeps me at ease, personally.

Facebook??? Think I remember MySpace having most of the 2000s. Even then, I used Yahoo!, AIM, and MSN way more lol.