A VPN, or virtual private network, helps protect your online privacy by encrypting your internet connection and masking your IP address, making it harder for others to track your browsing activity. It also allows you to bypass geographical restrictions, giving you access to content that may be blocked in your region.
It all depends on what you’re supposed to be protected from. Vpns protect your Communications from being intercepted and keeps your location anonymous.
So you are in fact unprotected from being located identified and tracked. You are also unprotected from having your Communications intercepted by a man in the middle.
If you’re on a public unsecured Wi-Fi network you are totally exposed. If you are on your own router connected through an isp, the ISP knows everything you’re doing, and attaches your billing information to that data and uses it.
So I really don’t think unprotected is a scare word. It is an accurate description of your situation.
And just a few days ago, the official jobs data showed fewer layoffs, more hiring, and lower unemployment claims.
At what point will somebody in the business media pause and say, “Hey, Wait a minute!”?
The feds have obviously been cooking the books since last October at least. They fired the professional staff in July for “tying to make the president look bad”.
I guarantee if executives start losing jobs, it’ll suddenly be a national existential crisis. Of course that will never happen as they choose who to fire.
If these yahoos come back to hire people like me who were dismissed like so much garbage, they are going to find we processed our loss and moved on after a year of self reflection and accepatance.
They will either pay us through the nose to convince us to help, or piss off.
I’m confused. Are you serious? I can’t identify any sarcasm in the text. I’m worried you might not understand the difference between fiction and reality.
It is worse than that. They often share your information directly, or initiate services that require your participation, and of course you must prove who you are to do so.
It could be FOMO. Personally, I see value in keeping social media from children. The problem is I don’t believe this is all about that. As usual, it’s all about surveillance.
Well, I started playing Skyrim about 3 years ago, and I now have over 200 mods. It’s almost as high quality graphics and sound as modern games, plus I have a huge choice of scenarios I can install. Wild stuff.
Cyberpunk 2077 might be next for me, unless I decide to play skyblivion!
Sufficient enshitification results in us simply reverting to how we did it in 1990. I am using actually useful software, but when that becomes unavailable, I will walk away like I already did with so much.
I’ve been using Linux since 1995, for this very reason.
Increasingly, when I find services don’t work any more, support says, “we don’t support linux”. I stop using that service and find an alternative. Never been on Facebook, and it’s stopped me from spending money at several retailers. Oh, well. Their loss, not mine.
… Due to my handle? 😄