TL;DR: Both; but it depends on your threat model who and what you want to protect against.
Voxel
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Privacy@lemmy.world•CalyxOS is back! Test build with Android 16English
4·19 days agoOld news, see new news: https://calyxos.org/news/2026/07/01/calyxos-official-release-is-back/
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Technology@lemmy.world•4Chan trolls UK government with another AI hamster as fines hit $800kEnglish
31·23 days agoI wonder why they still haven’t had their domain taken away, as it is hard to believe they didn’t upset their local government too.
The worst thing the UK could do is sanction the country where responsible people live, though I consider this unlikely. The second worst thing they could do is just block it nationwide on a network level.
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Privacy@lemmy.world•Reddit will require you to log in to use old.reddit.comEnglish
1·25 days agoTest
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Privacy@lemmy.world•Online Age Verification Law Could Kill WhistleblowingEnglish
5·26 days ago
I would rather not.
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Privacy@lemmy.world•Reddit will require you to log in to use old.reddit.comEnglish
4·26 days agoOld Reddit’s logged-out experience is a significant source of abusive scraping and automated traffic on the platform. It’s also an important interface for many long-time mods and Redditors. To strike the right balance between preserving your access to Old Reddit while preventing abusive scraping and automated traffic, over the next month we will start requiring everyone to log in.
Quote from the article.
TOR is mostly designed to run within the Tor Browser or specialized operating systems like Tails or Whonix. While it is possible to use Tor systemwide on a normal OS, it comes with many problems, such as slow connection speeds, very limited bandwidth, no split tunneling, and other technical network limitations. VPNs, in comparison, usually provide a better user experience, but privacy-wise, Tor is the superior tool.
*onion services
“Dark web” is a misleading collective term commonly causing confusion. The Tor Project themselve refer to .onion websites as onion services.
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Privacy@lemmy.world•Just discovered Hail/Shizuku for degoogling my deviceEnglish
9·1 month agoDepends. The update will likely be rolled out via Google Play system updates and not a usual Samsung One UI update. Disabling Google Play Services might also be enough to restore the functionality of installing (“sideloading” is a misleading term, making it seem like installing software from other sources is unusual, weird, and “shady”).
I also highly recommend against stopping OneUI system updates, since you will miss out on important Android security patches.
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Privacy@lemmy.world•The Mullvad founder gave millions to extremist far right partyEnglish
2·1 month agoYes, it doesn’t take you much research to find out that it is impossible to achieve anonymity only through a normal VPN service. The technology doesn’t allow for it.
Everyone who believes otherwise got deceived by cheap marketing lies from providers like NordVPN.
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Privacy@lemmy.world•The Mullvad founder gave millions to extremist far right partyEnglish
38·1 month agoThe company has gone with big profits in recent years through the sale of so-called VPN services, which make it possible to surf anonymously. In 2024, the company had a turnover of SEK 314 million.
Very incompetent author, includes misinformation.
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Privacy@lemmy.world•The Mullvad founder gave millions to extremist far right partyEnglish
92·1 month ago”This is a donation from me personally”, he writes in an email to Flamman.
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Privacy@lemmy.world•WhatsApp's "End-to-End Encryption" Is the Biggest Lie in Tech HistoryEnglish
25·1 month agoWhy are you telling lies? Have you even read the article?
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Privacy@lemmy.world•WhatsApp's "End-to-End Encryption" Is the Biggest Lie in Tech HistoryEnglish
26·1 month agoThe title is misleading.
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Privacy@lemmy.world•VPNs Promised Privacy. Here's How Several Got Caught LyingEnglish
3·1 month agoIt’s spam by the same person across multiple accounts from the same blog.
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Privacy@lemmy.world•Who Owns Incogni? The Surfshark, Nord & Tesonet ChainEnglish
123·1 month agoWhy do you make so many posts linking to the same website?
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Privacy@lemmy.world•How will a VPN aid in privacy? What will a VPN not do for privacy?English
4·1 month agoBest comment so far.
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Privacy@lemmy.world•How will a VPN aid in privacy? What will a VPN not do for privacy?English
31·1 month ago(…) as well as the server you’re reaching out to.
No, the server you reach out to sees the full traffic because that is the server your device is communicating with. It is only routed over the VPN, which acts as a middle person.
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Privacy@lemmy.world•How will a VPN aid in privacy? What will a VPN not do for privacy?English
3·1 month agoA VPN does not strictly hide your location. There is a lot of information that is shared with the websites you visit, e.g. your preferred language, timezone, etc.
A VPN can only change the IP-Address which also reveals information about your approximate location. In my case it is often times a city in another state, not very accurate.
It would be helpful if you would put in the title and description in which jurisdiction you live in.