Nothing special. No rants, nothing broken… Just happy that VPN torrenting is commonplace and that the torrent scene is still alive and well’ish
Sadly reddit isnt anonymous do you know any piracy forums?
Reddit is anonymous are long as you didn’t provide it your real info, and access it via VPN.
Reddit is however, moderated to keep themselves outta trouble.
If you’re looking for hacker/piracy stuff - look into the dark web
A lot of my posts dont get approved idk why
Yea this isn’t how anonymity works. Anonymity doesn’t truly exist, Using a VPN doesn’t make you anonymous, VPNs don’t really keep you any safer on the internet than HTTPS already does, all you are doing is masking your true IP address and location.
There is nothing anonymous about reddit, reddit doesn’t care about your privacy, reddit is as bad as google or any other large conglomerate or website that is tracking you online.
You are still relatively easily identifiable outside of masking your IP and location with a VPN. Your devices especially phones are logged by hardware identifiers, computers can be identified in the same way, doesn’t matter if you have a VPN or not.
Unfortunately I think you’re a little misguided on what a VPN does and how you think it’s keeping you anonymous online. VPNs simply reduce your attack vector slightly.
Thank you for confirming what I said
There is such much wrong with those statements, but I do agree that people are under the wrong impression about how “encrypted” their data is as it’s only encrypted to to point it leaves the VPN … Then it’s in the same state as when it leafy your computer for the rest of the route hops.
As far as 'anonymous" goes, as long as it can’t be tracked back to me, a person… It’s anonymous.
If i creat an account (on any website) and provide it no details to link to me… So far so good. As long as I don’t use a browser that releases unneeded header info they don’t have any info to uniquely identify myself. If I’m using a nolog VPN the IP address (and the hardware mac) can’t be tracked back to me a person.
As someone who worked in IT SecOps, as well as a pen tester before that… Pretty sure my decade of direct experience qualifies me as a good source.
Your welcome for the correction
Browser fingerprinting is a thing and it doesn’t rely on user agent headers.
If you use the app, they will collect hardware and software advertising identifiers.
Account association is also a thing, so you’d better be sure you don’t mix your aliases on the same connection.
Plus many other ways of identifying users based on usage habits for advertising purposes.
Reddit isn’t really anonymous. If the service is free, you’re the product. If you’re the product, they have a vested interest in knowing as much about you as possible.
So we’re basically arguing the description on anonymity at this point. Assuming that I the person can keep my aliases separated (as we’re discussing the technical aspect).
Browser fingerprints are super easy to randomize, and I would never use an “app” if I was trying to be anonymous as well as it gives away more info than a web browser.
In the long run anyways, if the only thing they’re ever able to link to is my alias, and my alias never links to me… That’s anonymous.
As far as “free services, and I’m the product”… That has nothing to do with anonymity either… That would again just be statistics on an alias that has nothing linking to me
Good luck truly keeping your aliases unlinked, is what I’m saying. They have a vested interest in linking them to understand more about the end user and have many technical solutions to achieve this. It’s highly inconvenient to maintain the discipline needed to do anonymity properly. The point I and others are making is that it’s not very practical to use Reddit regularly and be truly anonymous.
There are other services where anonymity is easier though. Reddit just isn’t one of them as it’s not designed for it.
Its really not THAT hard. For example for those purposes I use a Tails VM thats routed through a crypto paid vpn account & tor that only that vm uses. Personal or identifying accounts never touch that vm and that vm only runs when im on it. I do agree many have a false sense of security using their vpn on their daily driver pc or devices
There are literally browsers made specifically for this my friend, lol