Comment on Youtube can detect VPNs now... the fuck?

1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• incompetent@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  What’s wrong with VPNs for personal use? Serious question; I’ve never seen someone opposed to them.

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  • 1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    people use them to mask their identity and attack others online

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    • Fenrisulfir@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      What’s your real name and address?

      Seems like you’re using 1985MustangCobra to mask your identity. We should ban all online usernames and tie everything to a digital Id

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      • 1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        that’s not the same, if i was commit a hate crime for example, on this profile, and the police investigated it, they can get my ip address from my client connection. however, someone doing the same and masking their ip address with a VPN to like, i dunno, sweeden but they live in the UK, is a big problem when VPN providers make bold claims of “protecting your identity”

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    • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      People do that even more without a VPN.

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    • incompetent@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      That’s one small use case. There are many other legitimate uses for them. Seems a bit odd to be so against them because they might possibly be used for nefarious purposes. Have you personally been victimized by a VPN user?

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    • HarneyToker@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      You sound scared. You don’t have to be online if there is too much risk of you getting your feelings hurt, you can just go touch grass. Even the people you don’t like have a right to privacy.

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      • 1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        I think alot of people online need to touch grass.

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• discosnails@lemmy.wtf ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

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