Technology

The big downsides are:

1. Yet another Internet tax on the poor
2. Everyone gets worse internet
3. Most people are woefully unprepared to shop for a VPN from a reputable provider, meaning most people are going to end up subjected to even more surveillance and potentially attacks on their devices.
4. Most people also are not prepared to manage when to and not-to use it, so will get slower internet all of the time.
5. This will create lists of VPN users at both the ISPs and the VPN companies that will be usable by later christo-fascist governments.
6. This will ultimately get laws passed against consumer-facing VPN services, making it harder for people to protect themselves from other attacks.
7. More honey-pot VPN services will start up to support that list-gathering for future christo-fascist governments looking to build dossiers on as many people as possible.

I could go on and on. And nothing about the above has anything to do with porn.

Finally, I found another one like me. Prepare for a shower of shit in the comments, as most people here defend religion strenously.

I was with you until the last sentence. As someone who is not religious in the slightest, I have no problem with people being religious as long as it's not forced in me.

My friend who was previously more etheist, has been attending church. We have lost another soul guys.

There is an important distinction between being religious and supporting organized churches. 'Religious people' aren't any more of a threat to you than gay people are. Churches, particularly the Catholic Church in Christianity, that don't even follow their religion's teachings, are the problem.

I don't recall being given the option to vote on this.

It isn't the only place, but it is one of the few where the content is somewhat searchable on top of just having a very large amount of content.

Plus people like to stick with what they know.

That's true, however, I think they are the largest platform for user-submitted content that allows them to profit from their work.

Have you met the general population?

Lol yeah, they've been out of TX for some time now, and it hasn't affected my fapping habits one bit.

One hand? Pfft. I just mushroom stamp it out.

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Proton, Mullvad, PIA, are a few decent options. Be careful about anything that isn't widely trusted by the community as there are so many un-trustworthy providers out there that are basically shilling old-school spyware/malware. Also, for getting decent performance, they should also be using a modern protocol like wireguard underneath, not something like OpenVPN or L2TP or something like that. You will want port-forwarding if you use it for torrents, and that narrows it down extremely.

Proton, in my opinion, make the best VPN for people who need both mobile device support and port forwarding so they can be a good citizen with all those linux ISOs they torrent. I don't use their desktop client (I prefer to rawdog OpenVPN and Wireguard) but people like those.

Proton's email is dogshit. Don't get me wrong, it is awesome for making burners that many websites don't insta-block (although that is shifting). But you don't own your data unless you regularly run their nonsense client to tunnel into their servers. So if Proton goes shit tomorrow? All your emails are gone. Not a HUGE issue if you regularly fetch those but... yeah.

I've been backburnering it for other reasons but folk like (Not That) Will Smith and many others have been very big supporters of Fastmail and, looking at it, it seems pretty nice. And it fits my use case of using an email address at a domain I own so that I can just move between services depending on pricing and how evil corporations are in a given month.

Just to elaborate a bit. Migrating from JohnSmith@gmail to JohnSmith@hotmail to JohnSmith_75151515@proton is a massive undertaking.

Migrating from John@SmithDotOrg hosted by Foo to John@SmithDotOrg hosted by Bar is potentially under an hour depending on how you manage that domain and so forth.

It does, but can open a whole other can of worms....