What are /r/mintCast's favorite Products & Services?

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GNOME Maps is kind of awesome. But it’s Wi-Fi location service—powered by Mozilla Location Services, the same as Firefox’s—needs contributions from individuals who can run a little app on their Android phones. Help build an open-source location service, and make the Linux desktop and Firefox independent of Google Location Services.

I agree in the value of a VPN here, but knowing that you're shifting the trust rather than becoming anonymous or pseudo-anonymous is extremely important to regular folk. You'll hear me and Joe say similar things on the topic of DOH as well which I'm very much a fan of. Especially now that Oblivious DOH is coming.

You're spot on with the ISP knowledge. It's a lot even without them gobbling up every packet for inspection.

The VPN provider, on the other hand, is now in the position of the ISP. They can see what the ISP used to see. And even with my beautiful ODOH, without encrypted SNI, the VPN provider can still piece together exactly what domains you've visited which reveals a lot. And with it always-on, you've likely leaked personal information at one point or another to add more data points to a profile.

The real issue with fake data and the like is I don't think most folks, when purchasing a VPN sub, think about the anonymity angle. There's likely a credit card or paypal involved. And, of the three most popular, ExpressVPN, Cyberghost and Surfshark, the most payment anonymity you get is bitcoin, or in Surfshark's case, Ethereum and Ripple (lol) as well. None of these are really anonymous. The ledgers are public after all. With that in mind, some folks will pay for a VPN using a gift card and fake info as you allude to. The truly paranoid will pay for that gift card via a proxy/runner met two blocks over with cash, enough extra cash to forget a face, and no cameras in sight.

I guess it boils down to "what are you protecting, and how far are you willing to go?"

I hope this didn't come off as me disagreeing with you. Quite the opposite. You should use a VPN. There is value in as much anonymity as we can get our hands on. Otherwise companies wouldn't be pouring billions into profiling every detail of our lives.

If you guys web apps, why aren't you Android Folks using hermit?

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.chimbori.hermitcrab&hl=en_CA&gl=US