Seems that the Swiss legislature may pass a law requiring ProtonVPN to start banning certain domains from being access by French users (mostly illegal sports streaming sites)

For those using ProtonVPN, is the writing on the wall?

  • Possibly linux@lemmy.zip
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    4 days ago

    Does anyone have thoughts on the IPv6 privacy extensions? They theoretically could help a lot with privacy

    The idea is that your device has tons of temporary IP addresses that can be used for various tasks like surfing the web.

    • Melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      3 days ago

      All of your temporary privacy addresses will be coming out of the same subnet, so it’s clear they all belong to the same people.

      Ultimately the privacy extensions are just bringing IPv6’s privacy back in line with IPv4, because without the privacy extensions every single device has a separate IPv6 address based on its MAC address whereas in IPv4 most consumer networks have every device sharing a single IP.

    • Rivalarrival@lemmy.today
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      3 days ago

      Every single one of those temporary IP addresses has the same prefix, which traces back to you.

      Its about as anonymous as adding an apartment number to your own street address.