@RoninGrey So after calling them, somehow my account had their child content filter applied to it, even though they had no record of the request to enable it on their end nor could even see it as being active on my account. After resetting the router/modem combo box and them resetting some things on their end, it's gone. No one can tell me how it was turned on in the first place or why.

@RegalBeagle @RoninGrey
You're on the FBI list dude. Expect more harassment unless you're using a vpn.

@Zeb @RoninGrey I've known that for a long time. The technical oddities have been increasing in frequency the last couple months, though. This is the biggest one so far, but it smells like it was a test run for something and a setting got stuck. IT guy I talked to said he had reports from a few other users about this happening. Also told me it's only been happening to T-Mobile's wireless home internet customers. My camper gets around and they may be on to me not being at a fixed address.

@RegalBeagle @RoninGrey
Oh they hate when you move around. Interesting that they are doing test runs to crack down on dissenters, we're pretty advanced into the collapse text book.
The jews are really pissed that covid failed, they are speeding up their agenda anyway.

@e83b66a8ed2d37c07d1abea6e1b000a15549c69508fa4c5875556d52b0526c2b They were blocking my attempts to connect to Nordvpn servers as well.

AMA and I shall respond:

https://www.mysteriumdark.com/

@e83b66a8ed2d37c07d1abea6e1b000a15549c69508fa4c5875556d52b0526c2b Do you know of any VPN providers based and incorporated out of Russia, Belarus, North Korea, Iran, or China? I don't think there'd be many, if any, but those are the only nations I know the US hasn't completely subverted.

@RegalBeagle @e83b66a8ed2d37c07d1abea6e1b000a15549c69508fa4c5875556d52b0526c2b

that list of countries is meaningless as you'll be dealing with equally if not more monitoring and censorship if those options did exist.

@BlinkRape @e83b66a8ed2d37c07d1abea6e1b000a15549c69508fa4c5875556d52b0526c2b I understand and I wouldn't be banking through it, but it's useful to have a benchmark to compare against Western providers. I don't care if the 'Axis of Evil' spies on me. I don't live there and can't be compromised by them.

You're asking about centralised companies. That's fine, but Mysterium is a decentralised protocol using crypto to settle between providers (people sharing their home broadband) and users who pay to use the providers exit nodes.

I think you'll find this a better solution, because there is no company involved, no fiat and no data centres in this service, it is peer to peer.

https://www.mysteriumdark.com/

@e83b66a8ed2d37c07d1abea6e1b000a15549c69508fa4c5875556d52b0526c2b What sort of protections do you have against a state actor compromising enough nodes to track traffic through the peer network? TOR has been compromised in this way in the past.

There are typically around 50,000 nodes active at any one time, it costs money ($MYST) to connect to them, if a state wants to spend huge amounts of money trying to connect to 50,000 random nodes each day day upon day, then we'll all get rich and the state will get significantly poorer.

If they want to run nodes, then they can capture some of the traffic for sure.

Tor is free to use and a much easier proposition, but still reports of its compromise have been vastly exaggerated.

If you prefer centralised companies, then this is an option:

https://letsvpn.world/?hl=en

I would suggest, however, that the ability for a government to capture a single company is significantly easier than a decentralised network.

They have managed most of the large tech companies, smaller VPN providers are child's play by comparison.

There is a third option, which is a Tor like service run by two separate VPN providers, Obscura and Mullvad.

Obscura sits in the middle of Mullvad and so neither operator know both the source and destination of the traffic they handle.

Obscura is only available as a Mac download currently, but it is open and you can implement their solution on Wireguard:

https://mullvad.net/en/blog/mullvad-partnered-with-obscura-vpn

https://obscura.net/

@e83b66a8ed2d37c07d1abea6e1b000a15549c69508fa4c5875556d52b0526c2b Thank you for the excellent information. I'll do some more research on MysteriumDark. I'm not familiar with crypto, but it looks like it's time for me to start learning.

I'm British, three days ago I knew nothing about VPN's

It's amazing what government over reach can inspire you to learn 😂

@e83b66a8ed2d37c07d1abea6e1b000a15549c69508fa4c5875556d52b0526c2b @RegalBeagle

I suspect that the government still knows who you are even when you use a VPN. They probablyj told the VPN companies that they will be arrrested if they do not provide a back door to Israel. They then let people think they are secure so that they would do stuff they would not otherwise do and then get caught by Israel

That’s why using this decentralised service is so important 👍

@shortstories @e83b66a8ed2d37c07d1abea6e1b000a15549c69508fa4c5875556d52b0526c2b I'm under no illusion that a US-based VPN isn't working hand in hand with the feds. They'll keep you from getting DMCA notices and prevent coffee shops from skimming your credit card info but that's about it.