Comment by dtx1
4 years ago
> If you need to hide all of your traffic from other users in your local network, you can accomplish that in a trust-no-one fashion by running your own VPN endpoint on a server you control which provides better privacy guarantees compared to a centralised commercial VPN whose business model will eventually involve selling your data (once user growth stops but shareholders demand continued revenue growth).
Well not really. There was a great (german) interview with the perfect privacy founders recently [1]. They seem to be decent guys with close ties to the Chaos Computer Club and I strongly suspect they wouldn't want to work like that.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMr0gJvI-6I
> But if you need to hide your traffic from anybody but your peer on the internet and you need to hide the fact that you talked to that peer, then, I'm afraid, your out of luck.
Nah, that one is easy just use an anonymous sim card or an open wifi and your good to go.
Honestly these discussions often feel pretty asinine to me. I personally use paid VPNs to pirate to my hearts content, work around my ISPs terrible networking and a little bit of geo-unblocking. Of course you can't use these services to protect yourself from three letter agency type surveillance or equally powerful threat actors but if they are "private" enough to block the music industry and their lawyers from suing you that's a pretty high standard of privacy, certainly more than any ISP alone gives you!
Do you actually pirate music or did you give it as a general example? I feel no need to pirate music today with all the music streaming services especially since I can find all the music I want on all the streaming services which is a world of difference compared to the video streaming services
I stopped pirating music a while ago when spotify became better than what the trackers i was on delivered. That being said, i have recently started looking into it again since spotify is dragging their asses on high quality streaming and their app support on linux started to annoy me. The alternative streaming services barely support linux at all so they aren't really an alternative for me. But you are right it's mostly tv-shows and movies, a few books here and there. It seems I've basically missed the golden age of netflix (or there never was one in germany with their shitty catalog) and stayed on private trackers until now. I suspect it won't change any time soon either with all the fragmentation going on and i absolutely refuse to deal with their stupid DRM measures.
Have you tried youtube music (via youtube premium)? I'm not sure about the high quality audio part because I only listen via bluetooth. The recommendations, general app UX and the fact that I can listen via website on desktop have made me cancel spotify.
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